LAWA and LAWRS: Breaking barriers together for Latin American Women in the UK
For Latin American women in the UK, systemic barriers – from restrictive migration policies to a lack of culturally tailored support – make accessing safety, justice and dignity even harder. Many survivors of abuse, particularly those with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), are left without essential resources, facing impossible choices between violence and destitution. […]
Fat Justice and non-hegemonic feminisms: starting up a dialogue
By Gabriela Quevedo Fat Justice movements (also called size acceptance, fat acceptance, fat liberation, fat politics) evolved in the 1960’s mainly out of the struggles by fat women, especially black and brown women in the USA, who resisted interpersonal and institutional discrimination by the medical/health establishments, the labour market, and all other spaces in the […]
Homes for Healing: Lessons from Lucia and Carla stories
By Fernanda Martins The decision to report domestic violence and seek help can take months, years or decades to be made. It takes not only courage for a woman to leave an abusive relationship, but also material conditions and support to do so. For black, minority and migrant women, fleeing their perpetrators is a challenge […]
LAWA at the British Museum
By Daniela Londoño LAWA Community Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator We have an invitation for you! Here is some context: For two months, a group of LAWA volunteers and Change Makers worked weekly on a project led by the British Museum. As an intersectional feminist and Latin American organisation, occupying the spaces of this museum and putting […]
Sexual abuse & sexual violence awareness week: 7 key realities we must address
From 3rd to 9th February 2025, we mark Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week, a crucial time to shed light on the realities of sexual violence, the challenges survivors face, and the steps we can take towards healing, prevention, and justice. At Latin American Women’s Aid (LAWA), we work tirelessly to support Latin American, […]
10 books about the Slave Trade and Abolition written by women
The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic), saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. It is against this background that the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is […]
A Collective Call to Action: LAWA’s 16 Days of Activism 2024
As part of Hackney Council’s 16 Days of Activism, LAWA shared expertise on supporting LBTQ+ survivors and highlighted culturally tailored services for Black and Global Majority women. LAWA facilitated the event Construyendo un entorno seguro para víctimas de violencia de género, hosted by the Colombian Consulate in London. On 29th November, LAWA joined Respeito at […]
LAWA community programmes: feminist forces that help strengthening community bonds and women solidarity in London
By Mercedes Vivero and Daniela Londoño Change Makers Programme The Change Makers programme got started in 2017 as a way to bring women together and create a space for collective healing and learning. It’s been a way for women with Latin American heritage living in London to explore their own migratory journeys, build trust with […]
Black and minoritised survivors of gender based violence are at greater risk of becoming homeless
Domestic abuse is a cruel and complex issue, leaving survivors with physical and emotional scars that can last a lifetime. Women are the most affected by domestic abuse, statistics from the last ONS bulletin showed that in 2021, women were around twice as likely to have experienced domestic abuse than men. However, their gendered experience has been […]
African roots in Latin American and Caribbean food in 11 dishes
It is estimated that more than 11 million African people were taken from their original territories to be enslaved in what we now call Latin America and the Caribbean region. This human movement comes from colonial times to almost the construction of the Latin American nation-states. Thus, the African diaspora has had an impact not […]
