Press release on compensation: who counts and who pays?
Response to Law Commission Consultation: Consent in the Criminal Law
Consent in criminal law regarding rape prosecution. How the proposals laid out in the paper, will further undermine women.
WAR archives
WAR archives from 1977 to 2010
Letter to Granada Television: speaking out against racial stereotyping
We raise concerns about the proposed TV episode of Cracker. We object to the information we gave Granada TV, based on women’s experiences and struggle, being misused to give credibility to a dangerous stereotype.
Press release: Government denies women the power to refuse domestic violence
We speak out against the Governement’s Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign This campaign, in fact, offers little or nothing in the way of services, protection, policing or resources for women in violent relationships.
Claiming compensation for rape and sexual assault
Help and advise on how to claim compensation and how to appeal the court decisions
Articles: on the fight for compensation
Campaigning for compensation for rape – collage of articles.
Sexual offences amendment bill
On Wednesday 28 October in the House of Commons, MP Harry Cohen will present a 10 minute Rule Bill to overhaul the rape law, based on proposals by Women Against Rape...
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 …
Marital rape ruled illegal by law lords
Marital rape ruled illegal by law lords “Wave of prosecutions will follow” front page of The Times, 24 Oct 1991 Five law lords unanimously swept away the 250-year old notion that women agree to sexual intercourse on marriage and cannot retract their consent . . . Yesterday’s judgment, in the case of a Leicester man …
In the media: Andy Baker comments on police practise.
In the media: investigating officer comments on rape in marriage and police practise and we reply back Inspector Andy Baker strives to make the case that the Met supports victim of rape and tries to refute comments concerning police practise.