Against Rape
Black Women's Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape

WAR offers support, legal advocacy, info, counselling & campaigns.
Self-help for rape survivors seeking asylum: a volunteer project of Women Against Rape

Domestic violence? Free monthly legal advice clinic with Silvers Solicitors

Donations to WAR are handled by Just Giving - a secure site used by many leading charities

BWRAP offers practical support and counselling to Black and immigrant women and other women of colour,  including asylum seekers. Contact us/make a donation   Action contre le viol des femmes noires;  Proyecto de Acción de Mujeres Negras contra la Violación;  Projecto de acção de estrupro para mullheres de côr

Thanks to Comic Relief and Awards for All whose financial support helped us develop this website.

'Why we believe the police have lost sight of rape', Times 17 Jan 06.  While Tony and Ian Blair focus on defeating terrorists, are domestic violence, rape and racist assault being forgotten?

Press release: Without Consent report on police & CPS, 07

Submissions from BWRAP and WAR to Harriet Harman Minister for Women Consultation on Priorities, 07

Delegation of rape survivors meet with Solicitor General, 07 Press report

Evidence to Judicial Studies Board Equal Treatment Advisory Committee, 07

One in three people blame women for being raped, finds Amnesty survey - WAR's comment 

My sister was killed while the police did nothing Observer 11 March 07
PRESS RELEASE: The homicide review into the deaths of Julia and William Pemberton begins this week, Jan 07 Further info at
www.aafda.org.uk

'Don't you want to know why I'm bleeding?'
Man convicted of GBH against a Muslim woman, Guardian 2 Aug 06

Ian Huntley was not a one-off

Letter to the Attorney General protesting prosecutions of women who report rape and breach of their anonymity - please endorse
Press release more on press highlights page
Press your MP to sign: ANONYMITY IN RAPE CASES
Women who falsely cry rape could be named and shamed by judges Times 10 March 07
Press release on Harry Cohen's sleepwalking Bill

Ms L wins compensation for rape on appeal, 'I feel 10 tonnes lighter and I can finally get on with my life.'

Landmark damages for rape survivor detained unlawfully - listen to the radio interview here

Child abuse victims devastated, Guardian 6 Oct 08 & WAR's response

Woman wins appeal against compensation cut made because she had been drinking, reported in Morning Star, 12 Aug & link to BBC Radio 4 Today

Rape survivors win right to sue, Guardian 31 Jan 08

This Bill will greatly increase the danger facing women - now in committee in the House of Lords.

Briefing: making it harder to leave a violent partner; deny traumatised women & children time to recover; grant abusive ex-partners more rights over children.

Model letter vs. Welfare Reform Bill

Statement from a mother who fled domestic violence: You can’t put a time limit on our recovery

Single mum from WAR quoted in Guardian 11 June

The girl's mother speaks for WAR,
". . . my concern is to get justice for my child, and also to prevent other families going through the trauma.  I hope one of the outcomes of this is to show other victims that if you feel something is wrong, it’s your right to challenge it.  But it will continue to happen while those responsible for deprioritising rape get away with it.  [They] should be sacked for it, they should not be allowed to move on, be promoted, and then retire on full pensions.”  Press release

STOP PRESS . . . In June the IPCC reported that two more women made formal complaints about how their rapes were investigated by the same Southwark Sapphire Unit.  The mother in WAR urges the women to contact us.
'Met rape apology not enough', says mother, Evening Standard
Police targets 'meant car crime was given higher priority than rape', Guardian, 17 March
'This crime ruins people's lives', Guardian 27 March
'A specialist unit set up by Scotland Yard to investigate sexual assaults has been severely criticised', Times Online, 27 March

Press Release
Appeal: The police are asking women who may have been raped or sexually assaulted by John Worboys to come forward. We too would like to be in touch with you.  Please email: war@womenagainstrape.net or call (020) 7482 2496, and leave a message and your number.
Today's measures can have little impact in the face of a culture that systematically neglects victims of sexual assault, by Libby Brooks, Guardian, 15 April

Response: Rape victims don't want tea and sympathy but protection and justice Guardian 2 April
Camden group's battle to prioritise a heinous crime Hampstead & Highgate Express, 2 April
'The Rapist's best friend' Guardian, Comment 14 March
Warboys jailed for at least 8 years, Times 22 May

Report with photos

You Tube video of Ruth Hall of WAR speaking at the House of Commons meeting on 3 Feb

WAR's 30th Anniversary

Public Trial: The rape of justice - Who's guilty?

Reports & photos of the Trial 
Open letter to Vera Baird, Solicitor General, in Times Online
Petition: End the Rape of Justice
 

Met Police accused of protecting staff against rape allegations, Times Online Jan 09

'Rape victim told to show duvet to police' Independent, 2 Oct
 

A girl of 14 after her gang rapists were sentenced said: "Getting justice is the best thing that has ever happened to me. The one thing I want to do is get over it. I'm just doing everything I can to make myself a little bit stronger. Before I was thinking of taking my life but I'm still young and I've got my life to live." reported in Guardian 9 December

Jamila Ali Sami: Removal cancelled!

Picket SERCO HQ in support of hunger strikers at Yarl's Wood, 19 June
 

Rwanda rape victim in brave fight to help others, Ham&High 14 May 

Safe at last: Rape victim is granted asylum
Hampstead and Highgate Express 22 Nov 07

Traumatised Rape Survivor Sent Back to Uganda
Write to the Home Office demanding an inquiry of what happens to the women, children and men they remove
Sample letters

Landmark damages for rape survivor detained unlawfully - listen to the radio interview here

Official: Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre staff caught “stealing” Guide on detainees’ rights.

Press coverage

Help needed to reunite family!
Asylum seeking children to have rights

Asylum from Rape Petition now online

Asylum from Rape Bulletin Summer 08
Rape finally acknowledged by UN as a weapon of war

Good news! Betty and her children reunited;

£15,000 for asylum seeker illegally detained in UK

International Women's Day 8 March 08 Picket Serco "Close down Yarl's Wood & all Detention Centres"

Janipher Maseko's interview

First person| Family | Guardian 24 Nov 07
 

. . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . .

Independent Investigation demanded by women in Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre

Misjudging Rape - Breaching Gender Guidelines and International Law in Asylum Appeals, 5 Dec
 

Asylum from Rape Bulletin, Summer 07
Asylum from Rape Bulletin, Oct/Nov 06
WAR's Rape Rights Sheet (pdf) here
Asylum from Rape Petition available to download as pdf here . . .
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Conference 07: RAPE, RACE & PROSTITUTION Campaigning for justice in the 21^st century
Rape and domestic violence – Justice CAN be won with WAR & BWRAP
Photo from the Conference
 

Rape of women in Iraq

Rape of women in Iraq & Afghanistan by US/UK Forces
Press Statement - Journalist Giuliana Sgrena kidnapped
All Iraq is Abu Graib,  Haifa Zangana, July 06
 

More . . .

Kenyan Women To Sue British Army for Alleged Rapes WeNews:

US Judge Theresa Deni rules that a victim working as a prostitute, could not be raped: it was “theft of services”

Extraordinary speech by Indian woman on village protests led by grassroots women against rape

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