| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, project proposal and funding request relating to Women Against Rape (WAR), London. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Gender Programme. Applicant overview: WAR was founded in 1976. Its campaigning efforts have won changes in the law, such as making rape in marriage a crime, set legal precedents and achieved compensation for many women. WAR proposed the Asylum from Rape Project (ARP) in 2000 as a national project that aims to, 1) get rape recognised in legislation as persecution and therefore grounds for asylum, 2) end the practice of holding rape victims who are asylum seekers in detention, 3) raise the profile of the campaign against sexism and racism in immigration procedures, and in the implementation of the Immigration and Asylum Act, and 4) enable women most affected to put their needs and experiences before legislators, policy-makers and the public, so that procedures for rape victims seeking asylum are humane, informed and sensitive to women. Nature of support: In 2000 the Trust agreed to two annual grants of £17,500, £16,500 for 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 towards the salary and running costs of the ARP. Minutes: BCT 903, GP 9/00, GP 3/01. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |