New report on military abuse
On Monday 15 July, the World at One on BBC Radio 4, considered a newly published official report They also interview Donna, a survivor of serious sexual assault in the British Army who has worked with WAR for several years. Listen to the report by logging onto BBC Iplayer, find the programme and then skip …
Government announces Same Roof victims can re-apply for compensation
Government announces Same Roof victims can re-apply for compensation Congratulations everyone who campaigned for this change – what a wonderful if very belated victory for grassroots claimants/campaigners! It seems that the government has decided not to make people wait for the end of their Review of the Compensation Scheme after all. That’s good as the …
Event: WAR addresses Baker’s Union annual conference 2019
WAR addressing Baker’s Union annual conference 2019 The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union has been working with WAR on an inspirational campaign to stop sexual harassment in the workplace. They invited Lisa to speak at their annual conference in Southport on 10 June 2019, about the campaign. Watch the film here on You Tube
Petition vs sexual harassment at McDonalds
https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/mcdonald-s-end-harassment-in-your-stores This is an important petition taking off, part of the Bakers Union campaign which WAR has been helping with. It’s an international campaign to protest how women in fast food and hospitality are suffering harassment with no recourse from the company. Please sign and circulate. Nobody should have to suffer this when they go …
Letter to MOJ: Government review into domestic abuse and family courts
Paul Maynard MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary (Ministry of Justice) c/o office@paulmaynard.co.uk 28 May 2019 Dear Paul Maynard, We write regarding the government review on “how the family courts protect children and parents in cases of domestic abuse and other serious offences” called in response to the investigation by Victoria Derbyshire and the letter from over …
In the media: Letter on the arrest of Julian Assange
Letter on arrest of Julian Assange Dear Editor (unpublished) Whether or not Assange is guilty of a sexual offence, it is shocking that 70+ MPs calling for his extradition to Sweden in the name of justice refuse to take position on his possible extradition to the US and the torture and even death he may …
In the media: Universal Credit split payments given to only 20 claimants
DWP ignoring the needs of vulnerable claimants at risk of domestic abuse, says SNP. Posted By Steven Preece This article appeared at https://welfareweekly.com/universal-credit-split-payments-given-to-only-20-claimants/?fbclid=IwAR0gEzakL4W4ab3LLltYC90D7bBjKTQrS0wND_EZeFe-qARP2cBtJmm0d0I March 17, 2019 The UK government has been urged to make split payments the default for Universal Credit, after figures showed the DWP system of split payments on request is severely limited, …
Letter to Woman’s Hour: parental alienation interview, 26 April 201 30 April 2019 Dear Woman’s Hour We object in the strongest possible terms to Woman’s Hour’s sexist broadcast on 26 April about ‘parental alienation’. Woman’s Hour’s website says it is ‘the programme that offers a female perspective of the world’. This interview offered the perspective …
Petition vs family courts
https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-stop-domestic-abuse-through-the-family-courts Please sign this petition against family courts and domestic violence.
Event: WAR’s 40th anniversary marked by Cambridge British History Sub-Committee
Cambridge University hosts a panel discussion in 2017 which marked 40 years since the founding of the group Women Against Rape (WAR). In these decades, WAR has campaigned consistently to combat rape culture and end the marital rape exemption in English law. Utilising a number of strikingly innovative methods, such as holding a ‘public trial’ …
Event: WAR on Mayday march, 1 May – join us
Meet Clerkenwell Green from 12.00 march to Trafalgar Square. https://www.londonmayday.org/ We will highlight our campaign with the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union to end sexual harassment in the fast food and hospitality industries. Poverty wages, zero hour contracts, benefit cuts, insecure immigration status and the threat that we can lose our job or that …
Event: International Women’s Day – Strike
Friday 8 March protest 12-2pm at Royal Courts of Justice WC2A 2LL: We invite you to join and speak out at the International Women’s Strike event this Friday. We’ll be highlighting sexual violence including: -Putting the family court on trial for removing children from their mother after they report rape or domestic violence; -Our campaign …
Government announces scrapping of ‘same roof’ rule
Government announces scrapping of ‘same roof’ rule This government press release was published on 28 Feb 2019, a victory for all those who campaigned against the discriminatory rules of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. The ‘same roof’ rule had been used to deny compensation to anyone who had been sexually attacked before 1979 by someone …
In the media: Met Police disbanding specialist Sapphire rape units
Met Police disbanding specialist Sapphire rape units Met Police ‘risking a new Worboys’ after secretly disbanding its sex crime unit • The Met set up the Sapphire unit after a series of failures in high-profile cases • But sex crime detectives are being reassigned to small teams in the 32 boroughs • Campaigners fear a …
