Women Against Rape (WAR) is a grassroots multi-racial women’s group founded in 1976 and based at the Crossroads Women’s Centre in London.
We provide rights information, support and advocacy. We take up individual cases on the basis of collective self-help. We campaign for justice, protection and compensation for all women and girls who have suffered sexual, domestic and/or racist violence. This includes survivors of any age, race and nationality, asylum seekers, women with disabilities, trans women, sex workers.
We have won changes in the law such as making rape in marriage a crime. We have set legal precedents such as the first private prosecution for rape, after the authorities refused to bring a rapist of two sex workers to court.
We know this is a very difficult time for many people. We are responding to calls and emails, although it may take us a bit longer than usual. If you are suffering domestic violence or rape please call the police if it’s an emergency on 999.
You can call the 24-hour Domestic Violence helpline on 0808 2000 247 for help with urgent accommodation and other issues.
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Event: Protest & Speakout
EVENT: WAR will join All African Women’s Group to Protest and Speak out! WHERE: Taylor House, 88 Rosebery Ave, London EC1R 4QU WHEN: Tues 3 February & Tues 3 March 12.30-1.30pm ORGANISERS: Global Women Against Deportations & All African Women’s Group Politicians and the media have whipped up hatred against asylum seekers and migrants. Now …
Call to Action: Join Women Against Rape and others in denouncing the rape and torture of Palestinian women, children and men in Israeli detention. End rape, end genocide, end complicity.
Call to Action Join Women Against Rape and others in denouncing the rape and torture of Palestinian women, children and men in Israeli detention. End rape, end genocide, end complicity. (See link below to sign) Trigger warning: explicit sexual violence. For over two years of unrelenting bombing, Palestinian women have fought for survival and against …
They Claimed to Protect Women & Children but they Terrorised Us
They Claimed to Protect Women and Children but they Terrorised Us: All African Women’s Group Speaks Out Against Racist Attacks Women Against Rape helped women speak out about sexually predatory guards in asylum hotels and their justified objections to being housed with men, so that what they experienced could be included in their detailed …
Call for Action: Palestinian Testimonies about Rape and Torture in Israeli Detention
CALL FOR ACTION: Palestinian Testimonies about Rape and Torture in Israeli Detention We must organise against this to mark 16 Days Against Violence Against Women and Girls Content warning: rape and other torture On 10 November the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) published testimonies by four recently released prisoners, a woman and three men, …
Open letter from All African Women’s Group to the UK government to demand that the Namibia Country of Origin Report be revised . . .
All African Women’s Group: Open letter to the UK government to demand that the Namibia country of origin report be revised . . . At a series of meetings last year, which Women Against Rape helped facilitate, women who had fled rape and other violence including Domestic Violence spoke about being refused protection by the …
Press: “Every cut to social care makes older women & women with disabilities more vulnerable to violence”, says Women Against Rape
EXCLUSIVE: Hammersmith and Fulham Council apologised for not providing “the right care sooner” but the woman said she feels “betrayed” and “left to rot” A frail elderly woman says she was raped after turning to strangers online for help because care was not put in place by her local council when she came out of …
Event: Victim-Suspect screening – “You’re sexually assaulted. You report. And police make you the suspect!”
Report of screening dramatic Netflix film ‘Victim-Suspect’, 15 May 2025 We have been encouraging people to watch this ground-breaking American documentary, and we’ve been organising screenings followed by guest speakers and Q&As. It’s a good way of informing people about the horrendous injustices which victims of sexual violence face both in the US and …
Event: WAR speaking after showing of film Victim/Suspect, 15 May 2025
The film 3.30pm: A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations-sometimes facing prison. “You’re sexually assaulted. You report. And police make you the suspect!” University College London, Lecture Theatre G22, North West Wing, 136 Gower St., London WC1E …
Press: The Independent spotlights Duncan Lewis legal challenge against Home Office’s Citizenship Policy: WAR quoted
Press: The Independent spotlights Duncan Lewis legal challenge against Home Office’s Citizenship Policy. WAR quoted: Rules that make it almost impossible for small boat refugees to become British citizens have been hit by a legal challenge, The Independent can reveal. New guidance issued in February stated that anyone who enters the UK illegally by making …
Woman survivor of child abuse – urgent message to government against disability benefit cuts
I’m writing to ask for your help, as a disabled survivor of extreme ,life threatening and sadistically violent childhood abuse that lasted from my birth until I ran away at 16. I have not and will never recover from this or the CPTSD that is the result, so I’m in receipt of ESA and PIP; …