Glasgow Girls (activists)
| Founded | 2005[1] |
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| Founder | Euan Girvan[1] |
| Type | Human rights group |
| Focus | Human rights Women's liberation |
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The Glasgow Girls are a group of seven young women in Glasgow, Scotland, who highlighted the poor treatment of asylum seekers whose rights of appeal had been exhausted. Named by two of its members Amal Azzudin and Roza Salih the group, who all attended Drumchapel High School in Glasgow, was established in 2005 in response to the detention of one of their friends, Agnesa Murselaj.[2][1] Publicity grew as the girls challenged the then First Minister Jack McConnell on the matter and publicly voiced their concerns as more children at their school were being dawn raided, detained and deported.[1]
After visiting the Scottish Parliament twice, The Glasgow Girls obtained cross-party support on the issue.
The group won the Scottish Campaign of the Year Award in 2005 at the annual Scottish politician of the year ceremony for their hard work. However, it did not stop them from demanding to know just what had happened to the "protocol" that Jack McConnell had promised to obtain from the Home Office that social services, education services, and the Immigration police would be consulted before any decision was made on the removal of a family.
Two documentaries have been made by the BBC about their campaign, one of which won the Nations and Regions Award in the Amnesty International UK Media Awards.
In 2012, the National Theatre of Scotland presented a modern musical at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow depicting the life of the Glasgow Girls. The musical then had a run at Stratford East Theatre in London and returned to the Citizens in 2014 as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.
The BBC created a new musical television drama which aired on BBC Three on 15 July 2014.[3][4]
See also
- Dungavel
- Immigration
- Scottish Refugee Council
- UNITY (asylum seekers organisation)
- United Refugee Organization
References
External links
- Sunday Herald article
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- Interview with Amal Azzudin
- Positive Action in Housing
- http://stratfordeast.com/glasgow-girls-2
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