Regular readers may remember that I wrote about a young Ugandan girl, Janipher Maseko, who had been separated from her breastfeeding baby and one year old daughter and threatened with removal to Uganda without her children.
Mercifully she was eventually allowed to stay in the country pending the outcome of her application to be allowed to stay on human rights grounds.
Today she tells her story in the Guardian here
The way in which Janipher has been treated makes me so angry and ashamed to be British. Unfortunately, women in her situation are still being treated in the same inhumane way, despite assurances given to our Lord Avebury by Liam Byrne, the Home Office Minister.
These sorts of things show why exactly we need a strong Liberal force in British politics, to fight for women like Janipher.
Many women are treated badly by the Family Court system not only refugees and asylum seekers.
ReplyDeleteI am coming round to your point of view, John.
ReplyDeleteWomen generally get a bad deal out of the justice system.
By the way, thank you for helping the people I referred to you the other day.