Cathleen Miller

Four years ago, Marie went to the mar­ket in Kin­shasa. She re­turned to an emp­ty house and was sex­u­al­ly abused by po­lice.

So­heila*, an Iran­ian refugee in the UK, was mar­ried at 16 to an old­er part­ner who raped, abused and tor­ment­ed her.

Laila* was mar­ried off at 13 and abused by her hus­band in Pak­istan. If the UK de­ports her, she fears he will kill her.

Odachi* se­cret­ly saved mon­ey for her daugh­ters’ UK flights to save them from FGM, but had to leave her son be­hind.

Jen­ny fled the DRC and now runs an ac­tivist net­work from the UK, us­ing free wifi at the li­brary and 24-hour Mc­Don­ald’s.