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UPDATE: The Supreme Court upheld the women’s claim – a significant victory for all rape survivors! Today 21 February, the Supreme Court will give the verdict on a police appeal to overturn a high court decision which protects rape victims. This shameful appeal was backed by Prime Minister Theresa May. Biased and negligent police investigations …
See quote from WAR below. Revelations prompt warnings that forces are failing the most vulnerable victims, with campaigners saying police response is ‘matter of life and death’ • Harriet Agerholm The Independent • @HarrietAgerholm • 17 February 2018 Domestic abuse accounts for eight per cent of all recorded crime The number of complaints received by …
LUSH Human Rights Summit February 2018 Performance: We are Here – because You are There Our interactive play has been on tour to Coventry, Sheffield & the DSEI Stop to Arms Fair. Performed by asylum seekers from the All African Women’s Group, it depicts the real life injustices faced by rape survivors and others throughout …
A woman won a High Vourt victory in December which now forces reassessment of 1.6m PIP disability benefit claims. The Judge ruled the PIP assessment criteria are “blatantly discriminatory vs people with mental health impairments”. This includes debilitating PTSD from rape. Well done the brave woman who brought this challenge to the High Court while …
Sign this important petition against the ‘Same Roof rule’ – which prevents victims getting compensation if they lived in the same house as their attacker before 1 October 1979
MEDIA STATEMENT, by Women Against Rape 5 Jan 2017 There has been an outcry at the parole of Warboys after serving 10 years for 19 offences against 12 women. Yet the police say that other women had reported him, perhaps up to 100, but he is about to be released without being tried for these …
Please adjust accordingly and send this letter to your local MP (find your MP’s name and contact details here) [your address or email] Dear [insert full name of MP] As your constituent I urge you to take action to update the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme for victims of crime, in particular for victims of rape …
Campaign update – survivor Alissa Moore in Parliament Alissa Moore, a rape survivor we are working with in our campaign for compensation got her MP Iain Stewart to raise the issues in Parliament on 23 Nov. WAR was quoted and thanked for our work. Alissa was raped from aged 7-15 by her father, yet she …
Christina McHugh, 27, raped when she was just 11, was denied compensation because of a conviction Scottish Herald, 4 November 2017 HUNDREDS of rape victims are being denied compensation after committing ‘minor’ criminal offences, The Herald can reveal. It is estimated that at least 500 women have seen their claims rejected by the UK Government’s Criminal …
Hundreds of sex assault victims refused compensation due to criminal convictions Independent, 28 Oct 2017 Refusing money on basis of offence records ‘a new form of victim-blaming’, says Shadow minister Harriet Agerholm @HarrietAgerholm The Government’s compensation body, CICA, has been routinely rejecting survivors’ claims when it emerges they have a conviction of any severity Getty Hundreds of …
