Leading female politicians and artists reject attempts to link migration and sexual abuse
Leading female politicians, campaignists and cultural figures signed an open letter criticizing attempts to connect sexual violence to the arrival of asylum seekers.
The letter signed by musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar, including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultan, said that green and independent deputies have rejected the “racist lies of the far right.
“They are not the advocates of women – they hate violence against women while reading the letter ‘Women against the right’, standing against racism, or he says.
Letter, It was seen by GuardianViolence violence against women and girls is a serious and urgent issue. However, Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick’s refugees will never be solved as targeting Muslims and immigrants.
“There is no evidence that people looking for shelters are more likely to carry out sexual violence acts of sexual violence. Many of them are surviving violence, war and cruelty. Blaming them, taking away the deep -rooted causes of abuse and taking into account those who are really responsible.”
He also accuses the right to whip protests and misinformation for unrest other than hotels other than asylum seekers containing women and children. The letter argues that it does nothing to make women feel safer.
The letter was also signed by Labor Party deputies Nadia Whittome, Bell Ribeiro-Ady and Mary Kelly Foy and worker Peer Shami Chakrabarti. The general secretaries of the unions, including bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Association, Public and Commercial Services Association and Transportation Salary Personnel Association were among the signatures of the letter.
It follows a wave of protest on how the government manages the crisis of small boats and how it manages immigrants in hotels.
Meanwhile, EPPING, Bell Hotel in Essex, was the focus of various demonstrations and counter -protests in recent weeks after being accused of sexual assault last month. He rejected the charges.
Reform British leader Mr. Farage has repeatedly tried to associate illegal migration with the levels of violence against women and girls, and claims that the Afghan man is more likely to be convicted of rape than someone born in this country ”.
Last month, a press conference said, “40 percent of sexual assaults in London for the last five years were committed by those born abroad”.
The statistics were based on the analysis of the Migration Control Center, which describes itself as a “Determined Thinking Worker to control and reduce migration to England.” Although there is evidence that Afghan men have higher disturbing rates compared to the British, the scale of Mr. Farage figures Discussed by the National Statistical Data Office.
Meanwhile, Shadow Justice Secretary, Mr Jenrick, said that he was worried about the safety of his three daughters because of asylum seekers who had previously had “medieval attitudes” to England.
Mr. Farage also encountered condemned last month after promising to deport women and children as part of the plan to remove 600,000 people who had no right to be in the UK in the first period of a reform government.
Later, he returned, insisting that the party focused on “illegal men ve and that it was“ very, very clear ”that he did not argue women and children at this stage.
Mr. Farage’s plan was greeted with condemnation of charity institutions that accuse him of “the people who escaped people from humanity”.
In the meantime, the chief policy analyst of the refugee council, Jon Feetonby, added: “Collectively to detain children could never be applied. For a long time, he had violated protection protection and has serious legal, diplomatic and moral results. No difficult speech would solve the difficulties in our system of asylum.”
Reform British and Mr. Jenrick’s office were contacted for a comment.
