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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report1resized_0.gifReport and Video clips: Women's Hunger strike Louder than words  
Guardian
Asylum seekers win new strength to fight after Yarl's Wood hunger strike

End the detention of families Guardian letter

Have you been raped by a man in the military? Had a bad experience with a forensic doctor? Please contact WAR asap, researchers want to hear from you.

No to anonymity for defendants

Government backs down
Women will be the losers if the Government allows anonymity, Independent 10 July 2010
Briefing: Back to the '70s? No way

False allegations or miscarriages of justice?

3007299088.jpgFamily of Leyla Ibrahim jailed for three years vowed to fight to clear her name

GSCROP.jpgGail Sherwood: jailed for 2 years for perverting the course of justice.
On life in prison
Jailed for crying rape Guardian
Petition Free Gail Sherwood! Prosecute rapists not victims!
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Victories

Mary.jpg"When I got deported Women Against Rape didn’t drop me..."
I was illegally deported from Britain, but later won refugee status
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Appeal for Flavia Nambi

Exposing how rape is deprioritised

Taxi rapes case lays police failures bare John Worboys's victims were let down by a careless and prejudiced police investigation Guardian
Damning IPCC report condemns investigation of rape of teenager

A Question of Consent - House of Commons

BBC News Channel

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 50% 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.