An event was organised in the form of a workshop on 15 December 2001 to formally end the Campaign. Throughout the campaign period, the EWL became aware of the complexities of the asylum policy debate at the EU level and the difficulty in maintaining a human rights dimension in general due to the complicated technical and legal language, and of the lack of a gender dimension in particular. Therefore, it was very clear that the end of the campaign provided an opportunity to reaffirm the human rights of women asylum seekers and to bring this dimensions into the core of the asylum policies and debate. The workshop purposely set out to include women asylum seekers and/or refugees and to give a human face to the trauma of displacement.

The workshop included the following:

• Opening speech by the EWL General Secretary which gave an overview of the campaign and the reasons why the EWL decided to focus on the issue of gender-based persecution.
  
  
• An overview of asylum policies at EU level (for the period of the campaign) and the legal framework, by the Project Co-ordinator
  
  
• Input from women asylum seekers/refugees. Three women attended the workshop, two of whom are refugees in Great Britain. The three speakers complemented each other. One spoke of her own experience of what it means to be a woman refugee in Europe; another spoke of the work she is doing in developing a national and European network focusing particularly on the issue women asylum seekers and their integration into EU countries, and the third presented her own research work on analysis of the way in which asylum claims based on gender are dealt with by the department of the interior, responsible for processing asylum claims.
  
  
• Finally, a reading from extracts of the play “Necessary Targets” was carried out by two professional actresses. The play is based on the story of a group of women in a refugee centre in Bosnia.