Christel Querton

Christel Querton is the Legal Policy Officer for the Women’s Project at Asylum Aid, the editor of Women’s Asylum News, and the author of the new research report “I feel like as a woman I’m not welcome”: A gender analysis of UK asylum law, policy and practice

Unfair, unsafe and undignified: the treatment of women seeking asylum in the UK

In breach of the government's pledge to make the asylum system sensitive to the needs of women, officials are asking women to disclose information about sex work and abuse in the earshot of queuing strangers, and in front of their own children. This lack of privacy can have disastrous consequences

By Christel Querton

/ 24 Jan 2012