Amrit Wilson is a writer and activist on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics. She was a founder member of Awaz, the first Asian feminist collective in the UK and an active member of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD). Between 2000 and 2014, she was chair of Imkaan, a national network of Black Asian Minority Ethnic and Refugee women's refuges and services for women facing violence. Currently she is a member of South Asia Solidarity Group. Her books include Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (Virago, 1978) which won the Martin Luther King Award and has been republished in an extended form in 2018 by Daraja Books and Dreams Questions Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 2006).
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Published in: 50.50Narendra Modi, gender violence, and the Hindu Right's agendaIndia is facing a relentless nightmare of violence against minorities, Dalits and those who dissent from the agenda...
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Published in: 50.50Black deaths: still fighting for justice in the UKKen Fero's award-winning films about black deaths at the hands of the police in Britain record the continuing...
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Published in: 50.50Gender violence, Narendra Modi and the Indian electionsThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a good chance of winning the forthcoming general election in India. Amrit...
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Published in: 50.50Criminalising forced marriage in the UK: why it will not help women
New proposals to criminalise forced marriage are due for their penultimate reading in the House of Lords this month....
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Published in: 50.50US interventions in East Africa: from the Cold War to the 'war on terror'
During the Cold War years, while British colonialists were being driven out of East Africa, the first US...
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Published in: 50.50Racism, surveillance, and managing gender violence in the UK
New policies brought in to address violence against women in the UK are being implemented by large generic...