PQ: 5 July 2023

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2023-07-05b.305.0

Ethnic Minority and Migrant Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls — [Caroline Nokes in the Chair]

– in Westminster Hall at 9:30 am on 5 July 2023.

Kate Osamor Labour/Co-operative, Edmonton

[…] Black, Asian, minoritised and migrant women face additional disadvantages. Women and girls from minority ethnic groups are over-represented at every stage in the criminal justice system. That is partly due to a lack of cultural competence: agencies fail to respond appropriately to evidence of abuse, misinterpret women’s behaviour and fail to ensure that women can understand and participate fully in the proceedings against them. Added to that is the evidence of racism in the criminal justice system and the openly hostile environment for migrants. […]

Thirdly, the Government should seek to ensure that ethnic minority and migrant women have access to cultural mediation, translation, interpretation and international calls and are provided with improved standards of interpretation and the choice of the gender of their interpreter. […]