Press: BIG ISSUE “I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick”

The letter came through with her travel vouchers and Amy began to panic. The Home Office was asking her to come in for an interview to speak about her asylum case. It was one of four requests from the Home Office, made in the space of four and a half months between December and April …

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Message of support to Zayna Iman, for the protest of Manchester’s Pendleton Police custody suite

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 …

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In the media: 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.

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, …

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Press: WAR quoted in Express report – Police unable to keep tabs on all ‘monitored’ sex offenders due to officer shortages

Police unable to keep tabs on all ‘monitored’ sex offenders due to officer shortages Express, 15 June 2024, Jon Austen A senior coroner said there is now a “postcode lottery” of risk from more than 91,000 criminals who require regular checks. CONVICTED sex offenders released from jail are not being properly monitored because of police …

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In the media: Police officers keep jobs over David Carrick investigation failure

Two Wiltshire Police officers faced a disciplinary hearing following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Rod Minchin, The Independent, June 2024 Two police officers who failed to adequately investigate an allegation of abuse by serial rapist David Carrick five years before the former constable was first arrested have been given final …

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In the media: WAR quoted in Sunday Express on police officers keeping jobs after female officers accused them of sexual touching & explicit comments

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has pledged to end misogyny in the Met Police in the wake of a series of damning reports following the Wayne Couzens scandal. By JON AUSTIN Sat, Jun 8, 2024  WOMEN’S campaigners have hit out after two police officers who touched younger female colleagues during drinking sessions kept their jobs. Commissioner …

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Evidence to the Home Office Consultation on Police strip search ofchildren from Women Against Rape and Women of Colour GWS

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 …

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PRESS: “They’re taunting me”: Home Office asylum interviews are retraumatising rape survivors

Campaigners worry women seeking asylum are being harmed and wrongly refused claims for protection. Women seeking asylum after experiencing rape are reporting further traumatisation by the Home Office’s interviewing process. At these meetings, women recall being forced to rehash the sexual violence they have experienced to interviewers they believe to be insensitive to their trauma. …

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Submission to the Special Rapporteur – Custody cases, violence against women and violence against children

Issued jointly by Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign, Support Not Separation and Women Against Rape, March 2024. We are very glad that the Special Rapporteur is carrying out this consultation. We have worked for many decades with mothers fighting to keep their children (Legal Action for Women was founded in 1982). In the last 10 years a growing …

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