Stop family courts/CAFCASS collusion with domestic violence deniers
Stop family courts/CAFCASS collusion with domestic violence deniers To all women MPs and other MPs who have supported the call for the family courts to protect women and children. Dear MP, Stop family court collusion with misogynist fathers’ lobby. We write urgently to ask you to object to the President of the family court, Sir …
CHIS Bill – Spy Cops – in the House of Lords Now
CHIS Bill – Spy Cops – in the House of Lords Letter sent to Members, 10 November 2020 The organisations and individuals below ask you to oppose the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, for the reasons stated here: Licence to kill, rape, torture for State agents and informants. Stop the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill …
STOP the Family Courts aiding & abetting domestic abuse
As a member of the Support Not Separation Coalition we are lobbying for the Bill to prevent family courts enabling violent fathers to abuse mothers and children. See our latest Briefing to the Lords
Evidence to MoJ Review of Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme
Evidence to MoJ Review of Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme The denial of compensation to victims of sexual offences with criminal convictions is a scandal. Survivors in our network have been denied what should be an unquestionable entitlement for the violent crimes committed against them. We are outraged that the MOJ omits this rule from the …
Response to Government plans to impose rape case prosecution targets
Response to Government plans to impose rape case prosecution targets Targets are meaningless. The government has to tackle institutional racism and social prejudices as well as austerity cuts. Women Against Rape, RT TV 11 August 2020
The Guardian view on falling rape prosecutions: women’s rights are regressing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/30/the-guardian-view-on-falling-prosecutions-womens-rights-are-regressing Editorial Progress is being rolled back around the world. Right wing governments are not the only ones to blame. Thu 30 Jul 2020 18.56 BSTLast modified on Fri 31 Jul 2020 04.37 BST We are going backwards. The number of reported rapes that result in convictions has long been alarmingly low. But the state of rape prosecutions in …
Domestic Abuse Bill in Parliament
See our latest short film: STOP the Family Courts aiding and abetting domestic abuse. Made by WAR & Support Not Separation. We are lobbying for the Domestic Abuse Bill to: recognise that domestic abuse victims are mostly women; provide vital resources so women and children can escape; extend all protections and resources to immigrant women …
Press: DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide
DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide By John Pring for Disability News Service Documents released this week under the Freedom of Information Act show that DWP dismissed both the coroner’s plea to take action, and the findings of an inquest jury which had concluded that a jobcentre’s failings had …
Police and CPS scrap digital data extraction forms for rape cases
Police and CPS scrap digital data extraction forms for rape cases Exclusive: case of two complainants funded by Equality and Human Rights Commission forces U-turn Alexandra Topping The Guardian Thu 16 Jul 2020 The Crown Prosecution Service and police have been forced to scrap controversial “digital strip searches” of rape complainants, following a legal …
We are facing the ‘decriminalisation of rape’, warns victims’ commissioner
We are facing the ‘decriminalisation of rape’, warns victims’ commissioner Dame Vera Baird says there has been a ‘catastrophic’ decline in rape prosecutions Haroon Siddique The Guardian Tue 14 Jul 2020 00.01 BSTLast modified on Tue 14 Jul 2020 00.09 BST Dame Vera Baird said complainants were being denied justice. In the year ending March 2017 the CPS prosecuted …
DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL BRIEFING TO HOUSE OF LORDS
DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL BRIEFING TO HOUSE OF LORDS The Domestic Abuse Bill is due for second reading in the House of Lords followed by Committee stage, when amendments can be put. We don’t know the date for either of these yet (watch this space) but we will be sending this briefing to some members of …
Briefing 4: Report Stage Domestic Abuse Bill
Briefing 4: Report Stage Domestic Abuse Bill From Women Against Rape and Support Not Separation REPORT STAGE DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL, Monday 6 July We daily work with mothers who have suffered domestic violence and are fighting in the family court to protect their children from abusive fathers. Our experiences of sexism, racism, class and other …
PRESS RELEASE: Re government announcement to review the family courts
PRESS RELEASE: Re government announcement to review the family courts Why another review when all the facts are known? Where are the resources for mothers and children? We welcome the government’s announcement that the family courts must do more to protect victims of domestic violence, and that the presumption that a child’s contact with both …
BRIEFING 3: REPORT STAGE DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL
25 June: Oppose amendment proposed by Jess Phillips MP which would include children in the definition of victims of domestic abuse. We are inundated with cases of mothers who’ve suffered domestic violence fighting in the family court to protect their children from abusive fathers. Based on our experience over many years, we are very concerned …
