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 …
Our comment on Government’s planned review of CICA rules MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCES REVIEW OF COMPENSATION RULES ON SEXUAL OFFENCES – a VICTORY for grassroots campaigners! “Nobody should be made to feel worthless as you do when you get a compensation refusal letter.” The announcement 9-10 September from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) that …
Written evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee enquiry into modern slavery Since 2002 BWRAP and WAR have been providing specialist services to victims seeking asylum in the UK. Research, including our own, has found that over 70% of women seeking asylum have fled rape elsewhere. We document what happened to them and the aftermath …
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 …
Submission to Home Affairs Committee Immigration Detention Inquiry Black Women’s Rape Action Project (BWRAP) was founded in 1991. Women Against Rape (WAR) was founded in 1976. Together the two organisations have worked closely with women in detention, particularly in Yarl’s Wood IRC, over many years documenting the traumatic impact of rape and other violence on …
Open Letter for compensation to Secretary of Justice Rt Hon. David Gauke Secretary of State for Justice 6 June 2018 Dear David Gauke We collectively represent the experience and demands of thousands of survivors of rape, domestic violence and sex crimes suffered as children or adults. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is discriminating against victims …
From: WOMEN AGAINST RAPE David Lidington david.lidington.mp@parliament.uk Justice Secretary – Ministry of Justice 28 July 2017 Dear David Lidington Re Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and Authority (CICA) We echo demands in the letters to you from MP Sarah Champion, shadow minister for women and equalities, and from a coalition of charities[1] that the Criminal Injuries …
Rape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre Rape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre Our report chronicles a regime of predatory sexual abuse (including racist sexual abuse) since it opened and began accepting women and families in 2002. It brings together the many allegations that have been reported to …
Why we oppose proposals to make people accused of rape anonymous Women Against Rape Briefing to Parliament (amendment to Policing and Crime Bill – Lords Report Stage 7/12 Dec 2016) Following the closure of several investigations into allegations of sexual violence by celebrities and VIPs, there has been another media frenzy and lobby of Parliament …
Evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Prostitution Submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Prostitution 1) ‘Whether criminal sanction in relation to prostitution should continue to fall more heavily on those who sell sex, rather than those who buy it.’ Criminal sanction should not fall on either seller or buyer. We …
