This is the joint website of  Women Against Rape and Black Women's Rape Action Project. Both organisations are based on self-help and provide support, legal information and advocacy. We campaign for justice and protection for all women and girls, including asylum seekers, who have suffered sexual, domestic and/or racist violence.

WAR was founded in 1976. It has won changes in the law, such as making rape in marriage a crime, set legal precedents and achieved compensation for many women. BWRAP was founded in 1991. It focuses on getting justice for women of colour, bringing out the particular discrimination they face. It has prevented the deportation of many rape survivors. Both organisations are multiracial.

 

 

 

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Letter in the Guardian:Race, class, gender and grooming

Brian Witty – another serial rapist brought to justice, but why did it take four women before he was stopped?

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From Yarl’s Wood to freedom via the Crossroads Women's Centre

Plans to redefine domestic violence are disingenuous given the cuts to services, Guardian Comment is Free

New rape figures from Mumsnet survey

False allegations or miscarriages of justice?

layla-ibrahim-008.jpgLayla's story: jailed after reporting a sexual assaultGuardian Weekend 13 August
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Open Letter to Keir Starmer, DPP, from 26 organisations

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Gail Sherwood

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SLUTWALK LONDON

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My placard read 'Pensioner Slut' and I was proud of it Selma James in the Guardian

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Slutwalk website

 

No to anonymity for defendants

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Self-Help Guide for survivors

_55243921_jex_1162034_de27-1.jpg"Justice is Your Right" - A Self-Help Guide for survivors of rape & sexual assault & their supporters. Download it or read more here

We are here because . . .

We are here becauseWe are here because . . . is an inspiring and moving collection of online video and other testimonies, filmed, recorded, edited and produced by Black/women of colour, as part of an ongoing BWRAP project . . . more

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Much of our work is unfunded and relies on donations.  To support us please donate to WAR and BWRAP

Women soldiers and army wives raise £2,500 for WAR at fab fashion show - photo report

Success stories & testimonies from survivors

On rape allegations against Julian Assange

A Question of Consent - House of Commons

Statistics

One in six women has been raped.

Of Black women, nearly 1 in 8 has suffered racist sexual assault.

98% of domestic violence is not reported to the police.

Only 2.7% of applications for paternal child contact are refused (of a total of 46,000 in 2003).

An estimated 70% of women seeking asylum in Britain have fled rape.

Less than 7% of reported rapes result in conviction.

In 2007-8, 14,417 rapes were reported to the police.

On average, 15% of reported rapes were written off as “no crime” by the police, so don’t appear in crime statistics.

In Northumbria, 45% of reported rapes were not recorded as a crime.

One in four sex offenders were only given a caution.

809 cautions were for sexual assault on a woman and 299 were for sexual activity with a child under 16.

Another 130 cautions were for sexual activity with a child under 13.

One to two women a week are murdered by their partner or ex-partner.

1,966 cautions were handed out for sex offences, including 34 rapes or attempted rapes.

A third of women in Britain have suffered domestic violence.

In 30%- 60% of domestic violence cases, the abusive partner is also directly abusing children in the family.

One in three teenage girls has suffered sexual abuse from a boyfriend, one in six has been pressured into sex.

One in four teenage girls has experienced violence in a relationship and one in 16 have been raped.