Open Letter: to CAFCASS & NSPCC re your participation in a conference run by Families Need Fathers 14 Oct

18 October 2017

We understand that you are speaking at this FNF conference on parental alienation. You must be aware that FNF have consistently attacked women. Must we refresh your memory? As long ago as 1994, during a debate on the Child Support Agency, MP Glenda Jackson reported in Parliament that FNF advised fathers who were not allowed access to their …

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Women speak about destitution

18 October 2017

Women Speak About Destitution: Read testimonies of the real impact of cruel government policy The British government’s deliberate policy of destitution forces asylum-seeking women into extremely precarious and often dangerous living situations; exposing them to exploitation and violence. Here, women speak about their experiences of destitution in the UK. Melissa I’ve been destitute, when I was …

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Event: Brighton launch of Refuge from Rape & Destitution Campaign 

18 October 2017

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

18 October 2017

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 …

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Thank you for all your support you have given me during my court case

14 June 2017

WAR has provided extra support

14 June 2017

Testimony from a Ugandan woman who won her asylum claim with WAR’s help

14 June 2017

After my rapist was acquitted

14 June 2017

When I won compensation I felt 10 tons lighter

14 June 2017

I had tried so many times to take my life

14 June 2017

Thank you for the card and kind words of support

14 June 2017

Report by anti-rape campaigners, sent to all MPs, documents complaints from current and former detainees at the Bedfordshire immigration removal centre

14 June 2017

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

14 June 2017

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 …

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Submission to Home Affairs Comittee re Investigation into rape and sexual and other abuse in Yarl’s Wood IRC

14 June 2017

Somos Las Mujeres Contra la Violación y nos oponemos a la extradición de Julian Assange

14 June 2017

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 …

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