Event: Brighton launch of Refuge from Rape & Destitution Campaign
Women Against Rape’s Refuge from Rape and Destitution Campaign. The campaign was launched at the Cowley Club in Brighton 25 September 2017. See video of the meeting “Living on the Edge: refusing Dickensian destitution and other social murder” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn4XqkmUwik&t=4826s
Event: Another Handmaid’s Tale
Video: The World Transformed, Brighton 26 September 2017 In poor communities, as many as 50% of children are reported to social services. Poverty is used to allege ‘neglect,’ treat mothers as surrogates for fostering and adoption without consent, inflicting lifelong trauma on thousands of children. Single mothers are most at risk, especially if they report …
Report by anti-rape campaigners, sent to all MPs, documents complaints from current and former detainees at the Bedfordshire immigration removal centre
Report by anti-rape campaigners, sent to all MPs, documents complaints from current and former detainees at the Bedfordshire immigration removal centre Rape and Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre 2005-2025. Click on the image below to download the report in full.
In the media: Government ‘response’ to child rape is a smokescreen
Government ‘Response’ To Child Rape Is A Smokescreen Morning Star 12 MARCH 2015 LISA LONGSTAFF from Women Against Rape and CRISTEL AMISS of the Black Women’s Rape Action Project examine the state’s attempts at obfuscation Far from tackling rape, the government’s response to the review into the child rape epidemic in Oxford is a merely …
Somos Las Mujeres Contra la Violación y nos oponemos a la extradición de Julian Assange
Somos Las Mujeres Contra la Violación y nos oponemos a la extradición de Julian Assange Durante décadas hemos hecho campañas para que se capture, inculpe y condene a los violadores. Pero la persecución de Assange es de carácter político. Katrin Axelsson y Lisa Longstaff del colectivo Las Mujeres Contra la Violación guardian.co.uk, jueves 23 de …
Open Letter to Keir Starmer RE: Consultation on alleged false allegations of rape
Open Letter to Keir Starmer RE: Consultation on alleged false allegations of rape Submitted 2011 We strongly believe that the prosecution of women for alleged false allegations of rape is not in the public interest. This is because: ● It distracts from the true rape scandal that over 90% of rapists get away with it …
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 us, with other reports that have appeared in the media. …
