Thursday, February 13 Victim/Suspect: When Reporting Rape Becomes a Crime Film Screening and Panel Discussion with a speaker from Women Against Rape & others (below) Date and time: Thursday, 13 February: 6:30 – 9pm GMT Location: BLOC Cinema, Arts One Building, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Road London E1 4NS MAP Click …
A Xmas gift for mothers and children: family court guidance finally debunks ‘parental alienation’ PRESS RELEASE from Support Not Separation, 11 Dec 2024 Today the Family Justice Council has issued guidance to family court judges in cases where mothers report domestic violence and abusive fathers counter this with allegations of ‘parental alienation’ to force their …
This speech was delivered 19 October 2024 by a local woman of colour at a protest outside a Greater Manchester Police station in Pendlebury Salford. It was organised by Zayna Iman who has waived her anonymity and is campaigning for justice for her own rape by GMP police. Zayna Iman is in touch with and …
A woman who accused a therapist of raping her during a therapy session has been awarded more than £200,000 in damages after winning a civil case against him. Jess Warren, BBC News, PA Media News agency, 19 June 2024 Ella Janneh sued Michael Lousada, 57, over claims he raped and sexually assaulted her at his clinic in Belsize Park, …
Evidence to the Home Office Consultation on Police strip search of children from Women Against Rape and Women of Colour GWS We call for an end to police strip searching of all children under the age of 18, in police custody or schools or anywhere else – it’s state child abuse. 1. Police should not …
“They’re taunting me”: Home Office asylum interviews are retraumatising rape survivors Lauren Crosby Medlicott, 31 May 2024 According to Emily Burnham, a casework coordinator in the asylum team at Women Against Rape, Home Office policy is meant to protect victims of rape and torture from re-traumatisation by allowing them to submit written evidence, such as …
The fight for justice goes on, Letter in Camden New Journal Thank you for raising the question “Can the Met be trusted with their new powers?” From our experience as organisations campaigning for protection and justice, the answer is a resounding No. But we must ask, why is an institution found to be institutionally racist, …
Lisa Longstaff from WAR on BBC Radio London 9:20am, 6 April 2023, interviewed by Kath Melandri, on the latest progress report by Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Met Police, on rape and domestic abuse by Met officers. https://womenagainstrape.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Lisa-on-BBC-Radio-London-6-April-23.mp3
Press: Letter in Camden New Journal
Damning report finds institutional racism, sexism and homophobia exists in city police force…
