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Zofia Duszynska celebrates International Women’s Day (23 March 2017)

Date: 23/03/2017
Duncan Lewis, Immigration Solicitors, Zofia Duszynska celebrates International Women’s Day

On Tuesday 7 March Zofia was delighted to be invited by Norton Rose Fulbright to join a panel discussing the distinct issues facing women and child refugees.

She was joined by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen, a Danish human rights activist prosecuted by the Danish authorities for people smuggling when she drove a Syrian family from southern Denmark to the boarder of Sweden, and Heather Barr, a Senior Researcher for Human Rights Watch who spent 6 years living and working in Afghanistan.

The evening started with a screening of a Danish documentary called ‘The Wait’, a film about an Afghan teenager and her family and their painful wait to hear whether they could stay in Denmark. The panel then discussed their experiences in various countries of the treatment of refugees, public perceptions of refugees and what action could be taken to improve the prospects of women seeking asylum worldwide.

The audience of lawyers, policy advisers, film-makers and asylum-seekers engaged fully with the debate and were moved and inspired by what they had seen and heard. Prominent in the audience were ‘The Queens of Syria,’ former clients of Duncan Lewis, whose theatre production depicted the plight of women refugees fleeing Syria.

Zofia Duszynska is a Director in the Immigration department at the Harrow office. Joining Duncan Lewis in 2015 she specialises in asylum working, representing victims of torture, human trafficking and gender-based prosecution alongside those excluded from protection under the Refugee Convention. She has established a reputation for obtaining international protection in the UK for adults and children trafficked for domestic servitude, sexual and labour exploitation and was a founder member of ATLeP (Anti-Trafficking Legal Project); an information network of lawyers and specialist practitioners assisting victims of trafficking.

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