MS ROSE NAJJEMBA

Early day motion 901, tabled 17 March 2003 by Vera Baird (Labour). Signed by 37 members.

That this House calls on the Home Office to ensure that women seeking asylum, or refuge in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights, after fleeing rape or other sexual violence perpetrated by agents of the state, should be treated in the same way as men who suffer from other forms of torture or inhuman and degrading treatment in such circumstances and are entitled to refugee status or human rights protection; believes that the violence and traumatic rape of Ms Rose Najjemba by Ugandan soldiers is not just 'simple and dreadful lust'; and further believes that the decision to refuse her asylum should be overturned and she should be granted asylum or human rights protection from expulsion from the United Kingdom as a matter or urgency.

Signatures by party: Labour 25, Liberal Democrat 9, Plaid Cymru 2, UUP 1.