Domestic Abuse Bill: Amendments from Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape, part of the Support not Separation coalition
On family courts – Insert new clauses into Part 3: Family Proceedings following Clause 75 on cross examination: Remove Section 11 (2A) of the Children and Families Act 2014 which presumes that it is always in a child’s best interest to have contact with both parents. RATIONALE: This has resulted in a presumption of contact …
Statement: Amnesty from deportation, access to health, housing and food
Amnesty from Deportation, Access to Health, Housing and Food An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of the UK and the Taoiseach of Ireland cc: UK Home Secretary and UK Health Secretary, Irish Health Secretary and Irish Minister for Justice and Equality, All UK MPs, All Members of the Irish Parliament (the Oireachtas), All Leaders …
In the media: Secret policy change by CPS cut number of rape trials, high court told
Application on behalf of women’s group follows concern over fall in number of charges Owen Bowcott and Caelainn Barr The Guardian Tue 17 Mar 2020 A legal challenge over alleged changes to Crown Prosecution Service policy on bringing charges in rape cases has been dismissed by the high court. The judges, Dame Victoria Sharp, president of the Queen’s Bench …
NEWS FLASH: Victory after living for 17 years in limbo!
NEWS FLASH: Victory after living for 17 years in limbo! Ms O from Cote D’Ivoire – announces today 3 March 2020 that she has finally won refugee status. Speaking at today’s self-help session (which BWRAP helps coordinate) Ms O described how the immigration judge at her appeal hearing intervened to stop the Home Office barrister …
Event: International Women’s Day @ Crossroads Women’s Centre
Join us in the afternoon at the Crossroads Women’s Centre – let’s talk about campaigns for justice, compensation, asylum . . . IWD 8M: OPEN DAY with the Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and other organisations at the Crossroads Women’s Centre All welcome Programme 12-6pm 12-12.30 Welcome and exhibition Honouring Women 12.30-12.50 Film: Poverty is not …
Eminent jurists write to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for Julian Assange’s immediate release.
Eminent jurists write to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for Julian Assange’s immediate release. A delegation of women handed in the Jurists letter to 10 Downing St., including from Legal Action for Women and Women Against Rape who signed the letter. With Julian Assange’s extradition hearing set to begin on Monday, February 24th more …
Jurists letter to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson
Jurists letter to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP 10, Downing Street City of Westminster London, SW1A 2AA Dear Mr Johnson, As international jurists, with an acute awareness of the responsibilities that our profession demands of us, we call on the British authorities to refuse the request for the extradition of Mr. …
In the media: Keir Starmer’s record on rape
Keir Starmer’s record on rape Camden New Journal Letters 6 February 2020 The record on rape We take issue with the letter from MARTIN PLAUT of NW5 (‘Errors in attacks on Starmer’, January 30). He claims that rape “is one of the issues [Sir Keir] feels most strongly about and has worked on most assiduously. His determination has been …
Campaign Against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Campaign Against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace IN JANUARY 2019 the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union launched a public campaign against sexual harassment with support from Women Against Rape (WAR). We had our first regional meeting with union reps at Region 5 in January and are invited to speak in other BFAWU regions. The …
Free The Truth – 2
Free The Truth – 2 Monday 3 February 2020 5-7:30pm Free The Truth Event in London https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-the-truth-london-feb-3-freethetruth-tickets-88746570381 in support of Julian Assange. The meeting will discuss the legal campaigning vs extradition and other grasroots legal campaigns. With WAR, Nils Melzer – UN Rapportuer on Torture, and others. Organised by Deepa Driver.
Scotland Must Resist
Scotland Must Resist WAR speaks at a meeting in Edinburgh on Saturday 25 Jan 2020 organised by Scotland Must Resist – Talks in defence of Julian Assange. To book seats go to Event Brite. Speakers include Craig Murray, Deepa Driver, and others. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-must-resist-tickets-83915861601
A message of Love
A message of Love WAR is speaking at St James Church Piccadilly on Wed 15 Jan from 6-8pm at a public meeting called ‘A message of love (Luke 4:18): Why should we support Julian Assange? Book seats here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-message-of-love-luke-4-18-why-should-we-support-julian-assange-tickets-88112762645.
In the media: In our secret family courts, judges still don’t understand what rape means
Louise Tickle The Guardian 5 January 2020 It’s a scandal. Away from scrutiny, courtrooms are failing mothers by not taking evidence of sexual assault seriously When is rape, you know, real, proper rape? Shockingly, in our family courts, it seems it’s only when you put up a fight and have the injuries to show for it. …
Abusive men using child contact as way to carry on subjecting women to domestic abuse
See quotes here and below from WAR SNS, and a mum called Becky who we helped get contact with her (then) baby after she was snatched by her father who she still lives with; Becky is fighting to get her back. ‘We are also aware of instances where women have suffered physical and sexual assault …
In the media: Cyprus rape case – on the day before sentencing Women Against Rape points to similar outrageous cases in the UK
Cyprus rape case: on the day before sentencing Women Against Rape points to similar outrageous casesin the UK We share the outrage of women in Cyprus protesting against the conviction of a 19-year-old British woman who faces prison after reporting gang rape by 12 Israeli men in Ayia Napa. We welcome the UK government’s concern at the …
