Women seeking asylum in UK being made homeless and attempting suicide, chilling report finds

One woman slept outside for a continuous period of six months while pregnant, writes Maya Oppenheim

Campaigners, who blamed government policy for making women destitute, found almost half of those polled were street homeless while destitute in the UK (iStock)

Women seeking asylum who suffered rape in their home country are being made homeless and experiencing further sexual violence in the UK, a chilling report has found.

The study, published by Women for Refugee Women, found a third of the migrant women polled had attempted to take their own lives.

Almost a third of women surveyed said they had been raped or sexually abused in their country of origin and this occurred again when becoming destitute in Britain.