Natasha Walter
Bio:
Natasha Walter is the author of The New Feminism and Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism. She has been a columnist, feature writer, and reviewer for the Guardian, the Independent, and the Observer and a regular contributor to arts and political programs on television and radio. She is the founder and director of Women for Refugee Women.
WMC Women Under Siege
How the UK rejects refugees fleeing sexualized violence
A native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angelique had already lived through horror. Her father had been a politician. During the civil war, rebel soldiers had come to the family compound, burned their house, and killed Angelique’s parents. She had been taken to prison, where she was made the sex slave of the prison governor. Despite the persecution she’d experienced, she was refused asylum.
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