POVERTY AND VIOLENCE
The poorer you are, the more vulnerable you are to violence. Women need money in our own hands to be able to leave a violent partner. Women need resources that help us escape and recover from violence, such as refuges, legal aid, helplines. For these reasons, we have been campaigning against the austerity policies of the past few years, which take away welfare benefits and housing, among other vital financial resources that make us depend on exploitative men, and cut off our escape routes out of violence.
https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/mcdonald-s-end-harassment-in-your-stores This is an important petition taking off, part of the Bakers Union campaign which WAR has been helping with. It’s an international campaign to protest how women in fast food and hospitality are suffering harassment with no recourse from the company. Please sign and circulate. Nobody should have to suffer this when they go …
DWP ignoring the needs of vulnerable claimants at risk of domestic abuse, says SNP. Posted By Steven Preece This article appeared at https://welfareweekly.com/universal-credit-split-payments-given-to-only-20-claimants/?fbclid=IwAR0gEzakL4W4ab3LLltYC90D7bBjKTQrS0wND_EZeFe-qARP2cBtJmm0d0I March 17, 2019 The UK government has been urged to make split payments the default for Universal Credit, after figures showed the DWP system of split payments on request is severely limited, …
Meet Clerkenwell Green from 12.00 march to Trafalgar Square. https://www.londonmayday.org/ We will highlight our campaign with the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union to end sexual harassment in the fast food and hospitality industries. Poverty wages, zero hour contracts, benefit cuts, insecure immigration status and the threat that we can lose our job or that …
Union launches campaign against sexual harassment in hospitality Published in The Caterer THURSDAY, JANUARY 10TH 2019, 10:07 WRITTEN BY: EMMA LAKE The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has launched a campaign against sexual harassment in the fast food and hospitality industries. The union has joined forces with Women Against Rape to launch the …
Bakers Union launches sexual harassment campaign supported by our sisters at WAR Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union announces launch of Sexual Harassment campaign supported by our sisters from Women Against Rape Has the #MeToo movement helped workers in the fast food and hospitality industry to speak out about sexual violence at work and win …
London women tell UN poverty envoy about impact of welfare cuts Residents of deprived Newham describe domestic abuse and hunger to Philip Alston Women in London have told the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty they are bearing the brunt of government welfare cuts, and described how austerity has left infants homeless and exacerbated problems …
We joined other groups in submitting evidence to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, ahead of his visit to the UK in November 2018. This has now been published by the UN alongside other submissions: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Poverty/Pages/UKVisitSubmissions.aspx – See submissions from Legal Action for Women and Single Mothers Self Defence & by …
RESPONSE to the Home Affairs Committee Report on DOMESTIC ABUSE Press release Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape  We welcome the Committee’s recognition of many of the issues raised in the evidence we and other women’s groups submitted. But they should have gone much further, especially in the following areas: 1.     Welfare …
This Thursday, 4 October, workers at McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and Wetherspoons are striking against low wages and slave working conditions: https://www.facebook.com/events/357347934806498/ In the US, the Fight for $15 campaign is taking strike action across the country in the hospitality industry. https://fightfor15.org/ BWRAP and WAR are joining actions wherever we are. Low wages, zero hour contracts and lack …
Evidence to Home Affairs Committee on Domestic Violence, 5 July 2018 Summary: This evidence covers five key policy areas that result in increased vulnerability to domestic violence and lack of resources to escape violent men: Family courts and domestic violence Austerity cuts and domestic violence Destitution – a recipe for domestic violence The hostile environment …
