Statement: Rape and “grooming gangs” – the key issue is not race but “police corruption, collusion and cover up”

Rape and “grooming gangs” – the key issue is not race but “police corruption, collusion and cover up”. Publish the evidence! Punish the police perpetrators! The recent furore generated by Elon Musk and the Conservative Party calling for more inquiries on the grooming and rape of white girls in the UK by Muslim men is …

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Statement: Legal precedent for rape victimes seeking asylum

We call for an official recognition of rape victims’ suffering. Ms G fled Uganda in 1989 following multiple attacks of rape and violence she suffered from soldiers. Here is the statement issued by Black Women’s Rape Action Project which marks an important legal precedent for rape survivors seeking asylum …

Rape like charity begins at home: an international anti racist perspective on violence against women

Black Women for Wages for Housework contextualise rape, sexism and equality, within the Black movement Racism combines with sexism to lower further the value of Black Women’s lives, so the rape and other violence Black women face is unrecognised or disregarded, and Black women are less likely to have the economic resources or social mobility …

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Statement: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkley, we are fighting for justice for all…

Statement: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkeley we are fighting for justice for all. On 19 April, 1984, Ms Jacqueline Berkeley and three other young Black women were arrested after an alleged disturbance in Manchester. At Moss Side Police Station, Ms Berkeley was taken into a cell, script naked, racially abused and raped by …

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Against our selves: why Women Against Rape couldn’t join a march through Soho.

Against ourselves: Why Women Against Rape couldn’t join a march through Soho… Whose Night? Women Against Rape, the English Collective of Prostitutes and the Wages for Housework Campaign were unable to take part in the Nation Union of Student’s Reclaim the Night march in February 1981 and were forced to leave a planning meeting for …

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