Isabel Young

Co-Director @4refugeewomen. Ex @the_young_fdn & @latinvillageuk. Passionate about gender, LGBTQ+ and migrant inclusion. Fierce facilitator!

[Isabel Young @IsabelKAYoung]

Check our new 2025-28 strategy @4refugeewomen! It sets out our plan to work alongside women seeking safety in the UK to support them to rebuild their lives and bring about the change that is needed to create a fair asylum system: https://t.co/pOdTohOemT

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

Yesterday, we took an important message to the streets of London:
🗣️ #LiftTheBan!

Most people seeking safety are banned from working, forcing people into poverty and causing huge harm.

This isn’t right.

As Mercy shared: “We want to work, let us work!”

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[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

Voices Unveiled, a powerful photography exhibition exploring the lives of six refugee women from our network, launches in Birmingham next week!

📅From 17 April 2025
📍Grosvenor Road Studios, Birmingham

Find out more: https://t.co/zxH7RShFOa

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

📣 Resistance is power! 📣⁣

Tens of thousands of you took a stand against the Government's harmful and cruel Rwanda Plan.

⁣And it worked! The Supreme Court has ruled that no-one seeking safety in the UK can be forcibly deported to Rwanda.⁣

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[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

📢Gender equality cannot exist in the UK while refugee women are being treated as lesser humans.

History has proven time and time again that we are stronger together.

So let's keep making history.

Join us to 💜WELCOME EVERY WOMAN 💜https://t.co/5RKDFcTbpP

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

🚨Damning report into Yarl's Wood

Yesterday @HMIPrisonsnews published an inspection report on Yarl's Wood detention centre.

The findings are extremely concerning.

https://t.co/Rc7DhnHbg7

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[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

🚨BREAKING:

Today the first public inquiry into immigration detention has been released.

The inquiry exposes mistreatment, abusive practices, and the extreme harm detention causes to already vulnerable individuals.

https://t.co/afK6mIsDaH

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[Isabel Young @IsabelKAYoung]

Come join our amazing team @4refugeewomen 🙌

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

🔔 We’re hiring! 🔔

We’re looking for an experienced trusts and grants fundraiser to join our small and friendly team.

If you’re an excellent writer and passionate about refugee rights, we’d love to hear from you!

Deadline: Sun 1st Oct, 5PM

https://t.co/NQOPNmIt4B

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

We've sent hundreds of cards and emails to @IKEAUK @sainsburys and Bravissimo urging them to end their harmful contracts with Mitie.
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We've either been ignored or received inadequate responses.⁣
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So we're taking our message somewhere it can't be ignored... to their stores.⁣

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

🚨BREAKING

'Three senior judges have ruled that it is unlawful for the UK government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims processed.'

We knew this plan was unsafe and cruel.

This is great news!

Full story: https://t.co/WoiPwIHRNZ

[Isabel Young @IsabelKAYoung]

@mitie #profitfrompain by running detention centres in the UK; causing huge harm to people seeking safety from persecution, war and torture.

@IKEAUK @sainsburys and #Bravissimo please end your contracts with Mitie. Do the right thing! #refugeeweek #compassionintoaction

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

🗣️CAMPAIGN WIN!🗣️

Following our legal challenge last year, it has been announced that all legal advice surgeries in immigration detention must now take place face-to-face.

This is an important victory!

Read our full statement: https://t.co/zOQtfvsZPy 1/🧵

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

The 'Illegal Migration Bill' will allow the Government to detain pregnant women indefinitely.

Detention causes HUGE harm to women and their babies.

This move is a dangerous step backwards, undoing the 72hr time limit on the detention of pregnant women.

Not in our name✊

[Isabel Young @IsabelKAYoung]

@robertcourts I have just emailed you to invite you to attend @4refugeewomen's Rainbow Sisters report launch event at Parliament on 22nd March. Show your support for the LGBTQ+ asylum community! https://t.co/jhLAR0guAd #SeeUsBelieveUs

[Isabel Young @IsabelKAYoung]

Be sure to read and share @4refugeewomen's latest report documenting lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of the asylum system in the UK: https://t.co/jhLAR0guAd #SeeUsBelieveUs

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay we're launching our new report #SeeUsBelieveUs on the experiences of lesbian and bisexual women seeking safety.

Follow our thread by members of Rainbow Sisters, our solidarity group for LGBTQ+ women, to learn more!🏳️‍🌈

https://t.co/Tsgaq5igIv

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

Continued cruelty.

The Government's new bill destroys the right to claim asylum and could have life or death consequences for people seeking safety in the UK.

We vehemently oppose this new bill.

What we know about the bill 👇

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[Isabel Young @IsabelKAYoung]

Beyond proud of our incredibly talented Hajar here @Refugee_Women who is gracing the same pages as @rihanna in @BritishVogue this month as one of their #forcesforchange! #grassroots #refugee #women #vogue

[Isabel Young @IsabelKAYoung]

Come join our fab team of volunteers @4refugeewomen!
#refugee #asylum #women #grassroots #holistic #ESOL #art #yoga #support

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

We're looking for new volunteers to support with the following activities with refugee women:

🎨Art therapy
📚English class
🧘‍♀️Yoga class
❤️General support

The time commitment for each role is 1.5 hours per week.

We would love to hear from you: https://t.co/RRFYbv2R1D

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Profiting from misery

Doesn't suit you.

Great cards from @AsylumWelcome!

#StopProfitingFromOurHeartbreak💔