Article: Police rapist gets seven years
Article: Police rapist gets seven years October 12, PC Peter Anderson was found guilty of raping a young Black woman in Surrey whilst on duty. Anderson, relying on racist, sexist stereotypes to mislead the jury claimed that the woman had handed him ‘sex on a plate.’
Article: Discussing rape with rapists – or can men change?
New Law Journal, July 1989 In February this year, Claire Glasman of Women Against Rape reports on the findings of her visit to Grendon Underwood Prison to meet men serving sentences for sexual offences.
Article: US doctor punished for assault
Article: US doctor punished for assault The Revoke License to Rape Campaign (RLR) in the United States has won a major victory: Dr Samual Lyness, charged with sexual assault by seven women patients, was found guilty on six counts and his license suspended for five years…
Women with disabilities picket Lambeth Council
Women with disabilities picket Lambeth Council On Tuesday 28 April women with disabilities picketed Lambeth Council protesting that it knowingly housed a single man opposite a rape survivor in isolated accommodation.
Statement: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkley, we are fighting for justice for all…
Statement: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkeley we are fighting for justice for all. On 19 April, 1984, Ms Jacqueline Berkeley and three other young Black women were arrested after an alleged disturbance in Manchester. At Moss Side Police Station, Ms Berkeley was taken into a cell, script naked, racially abused and raped by …
Book review: London inquiry into rape – Dismissing the “myth of the dark stranger.”
Book review : London inquiry into rape – Dismissing the “myth of the dark stranger.” Ask Any Woman is the first major survey into rape in Britain. It shows a staggering level of rape and sexual assault – in the street, on public transport, at home, on housing estates, rape in marriage, rape and assault …
Book launch: The Rapist Who Pays The Rent – women’s case for changing the law on rape
Book launch: The Rapist Who Pays The Rent – women’s case for changing the Law on Rape. This is the handbook of the movement to make rape in marriage a crime. It also describes how rape outside marriage is dealt with by police and courts, who often support and even encourage the rapist, whether he’s …
Parliament considers: Rape in Marriage. A Public Meeting
Parliament considers Rape in Marriage, WAR public meeting “Most people agree that marriage should be an equal relationship. How can there be equality when one partner is legally entitled to rape the other? Instead the law says that in marriage, the man is the boss and the women is his property.”
Press Release: John Tilley MP presents in parliament regarding rape in marriage.
Press release: John Tilley MP presents a 10 Minute Rule Bill on rape in marriage. The first parliamentary bill in response to the growing movement against rape in marriage in Britain.
Statement: Racism is Rapism
Racism is Rapism In organising against rape, we have seen too often how the law works against women’s safety. The immigration laws are a prime example…
Press release: Victory for Esme Baker
Today at Walthamstow Magistrates Court Mrs Esme Baker, a West Indian women, and her two sons were found not guilty of assault, threatening behaviour and obstructing the Police, which was a victory in the campaign against rape and violence.
Stop the threatened deportation of Najat Chafee
Stop the threatened deportation of Najat Chafee Letter of support to the Home Office.
The Leveller: Making WAR on rape
Making WAR on rape Rape in Marriage should be made a crime. That is the provisional recommendation of the Criminal Law Revision Committee, and is something which Women Against Rape have been campaigning about for more than five years…
Against our selves: why Women Against Rape couldn’t join a march through Soho.
Against ourselves: Why Women Against Rape couldn’t join a march through Soho… Whose Night? Women Against Rape, the English Collective of Prostitutes and the Wages for Housework Campaign were unable to take part in the Nation Union of Student’s Reclaim the Night march in February 1981 and were forced to leave a planning meeting for …
Cutback on rights – passport to rape
Cutback on rights – passport to rape The new immigration proposals attach every women. The racism that Black and immigrant women (Black or white) already face stems directly from one government after another saying: “you are not welcome, don’t expect any rights.” AND THEY MEAN IT…
