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PROTEST: Campaigners want to highlight the mothers who have to spend long stretches of time in detention centres

MOTHERS FROM minority ethnic communities are set to take part in a march this week to highlight the plight of many black mothers held indefinitely in immigration detention centres and separated from their children.

Maureen Mahoro from the All African Women’s Group, one of the group’s organising the march told The Voice “Our Mothers Campaign highlights the tragedy of mothers separated, often for many years, from their children. Some of our members have been in and are in Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre, where women are on hunger strike.”

Mahoro said that the march would also draw attention to the often unacknowledged role that mothers play in creating social cohesion.

“The survival of the human race depends on the caring work of mothers but we get no recognition or support, only blame when things go wrong. We’re even expected to do more work to feed the family, often on the lowest pay. The event calls for support and recognition for all the work mothers contribute to society in every part of the globe.”

It’s expected that the march, which will take place on March 13, will start at London’s Trafalgar Square and end at Parliament Square.

Among the other groups taking part are the Global Women’s Strike and Single Mothers Self Defence.

For more information please visit www.globalwomenstrike.net.

Published: 31 December 1979
Issue: 1413

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