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One in six women has been raped. Of Black women, nearly 1 in 8 has suffered racist sexual assault. Two women a week are murdered by their partner or ex-partner. 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 6% of reported rapes result in conviction. International statistics on rape from the UN
WAR offers support, legal advocacy, info, counselling & campaigns. Domestic violence? Free monthly legal advice clinic with Silvers Solicitors
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?
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
'Don't you want to
know why I'm bleeding?'
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Winning compensation |
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
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Oppose the Welfare Reform Bill |
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
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Damning IPCC report into rape investigation |
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
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Worboys & Reid cases |
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
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Rape and
prostitution -- |
Report with photos
You Tube video of Ruth Hall of WAR speaking at the House of Commons meeting on 3 Feb
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The rape of justice |

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
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Seeking asylum |
Jamila Ali Sami: Removal cancelled!
Official:
Yarl’s Wood Immigration
Removal Centre staff caught “stealing” Guide on detainees’
rights.
Asylum from Rape Petition now online
Misjudging Rape
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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 21st
century
Rape and
domestic violence – Justice CAN be won
with
WAR & BWRAP
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Rape of
women |
Rape of women in
Iraq & Afghanistan by US/UK Forces
Press Statement
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Journalist
Giuliana Sgrena kidnapped
All Iraq is Abu Graib,
Haifa Zangana, July
06
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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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