Video: Kill the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill

Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill https://womenagainstrape.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CopStatfinal.mp4 We are determined to stop this repressive and unwarranted Bill.  We will continue to and hold the police to account.  We demand protection and justice for anyone who’s suffered male violence – including by the police.  Please watch & share our video on social media. Please also share …

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In the media: Police Bill – 5 years for rape, 10 for damaging a slaver statue

OPINION Police Bill: 5 years for rape, 10 for damaging a slaver statue Lisa Longstaff, Women Against Rape Women Against Rape, protesting in Parliament Square – Credit: Women Against Rape The strength of feeling provoked by Sarah Everard’s murder and the police response to women paying their respects remind us of the fury at the police killing of …

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In the media: ‘Women will live in fear until we see changes’

‘Women will live in fear until we see changes’ 18 March 2021 PAIN and anger in the wake of Sarah Everard’s killing must lead to ­permanent changes in the UK and a strengthening of laws to make women feel safer, campaigners demanded this week. In the days since the 33-year-old’s remains were found in Kent …

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In the media: Police response to women’s outcry at Sarah Everard’s murder discredits Bill to increase police powers

Police response to women’s outcry at Sarah Everard’s murder discredits Bill to increase police powers We are shocked but not surprised at the police response to women’s distress and fury at the murder of Sarah Everard.  When thousands of women took to social media, Met chief Cressida Dick said not to worry because such murders …

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Press release: Domestic Abuse Bill – Lords reject parental alienation and discuss Presumption of Contact

Press release: Domestic Abuse Bill – Lords reject ‘parental alienation’ and discuss ‘presumption of contact’ Support Not Separation and Women Against Rape, 10 March 2021 Victory against ‘parental alienation’ In a victory for women and children survivors of domestic abuse, the House of Lords has refused to amend the definition of domestic abuse to include …

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Statement: Domestic Abuse Bill – Father urges men to speak out vs misogynist men

Domestic Abuse Bill: Father urges men to speak out against mysoginist men As the Domestic Abuse Bill is being debated in Parliament, men have a responsibility to confront violent men and their male supremacist organisations which poison relationships between women and men, and with children, and put lives at risk. We must take our lead …

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Press Release: Destitute mother and children win housing at last!

PRESS RELEASE: Destitute mother and children win housing at last! A mother with two children, who was evicted by Lewisham Council five weeks ago, at the height of the second wave of the pandemic and in freezing weather, has won a fight to claim asylum and be granted housing and assistance. Marian Okeibunor is a survivor of …

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Guardian letter – unpublished

Letter to the Guardian (unpublished) 16 February 2021 To: guardian.letters@theguardian.com Dear Editor, Sarah Crew, police lead for rape in England and Wales, blames the “decriminalisation” of rape on the “huge progress and expertise . . . lost when specialist teams investigating rape were disbanded during years of austerity.” (Guardian 15 Feb) Anticipating disaster, we asked …

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