Ms Rose Najjemba

EDM number 901 in 2002-03, proposed by Vera Baird on 17/03/2003.

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.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.