Review of Justice is Your Right By Frith Taylor In May 2020 Women Against Rape (WAR) released the latest edition of ‘Justice is Your Right: A Self Help Guide to Survivors of Rape and Sexual Assault & their Supporters’ . For many years this guide has empowered sexual abuse survivors by explaining how they can …
UP FROM DESTITUTION WOMEN AND OUR CHILDREN ESCAPING PERSECUTION, WAR & ECOLOGICAL DEVASTATION HAVE A RIGHT TO ASYLUM AND SUPPORT Up from Destitution, a survey of women seeking asylum and making immigration applications in the UK, has found that 60% of participants are living on an income so low that they are classified as officially …
The Nationality & Borders Bill introduces a two-tier system so that anyone entering the UK by a so-called illegal route will no longer be entitled to full refugee status. Instead, you will only get “temporary protection status” lasting no longer than 30 months. You will have limited access to benefits and family reunion, and could …
Why women oppose the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill Women Against Rape & Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike We have been organising for decades for protection and justice from a pandemic of sexual and domestic violence against women and children, reinforced by policies of austerity that target us, undermining our financial independence and …
OPPOSE THE NATIONALITY & BORDERS BILL I’m writing to ask you as my MP to oppose the Nationality and Borders Bill or I’m writing to thank you for opposing the Nationality and Borders Bill. I am upset and horrified at this Bill which will to make it even more difficult for people who are fleeing …
THE NATIONALITY AND BORDERS BILL IS BASED ON LIES The Nationality and Borders Bill is based on lies. Home secretary Priti Patel tried to fuel hostility against people forced to cross borders to save their lives by saying that “vulnerable women and children” are being “elbowed” out of the way by men crossing the channel …
Sex attack victims denied compensation ‘because of unpaid TV licences’ Josh Layton Nearly 1,000 reported victims of sexual assault have been denied compensation with many said to have had their claims rejected due to minor rule breaking. The applicants had requests turned down for convictions including not owning a TV licence, shoplifting and sex work, …
Telegraph reports the story of Nadia Valeri. Cara McGoogan writes how, ‘In September 2020, the Met settled a civil claim with Valeri out of court and paid her £35,000 in compensation. The Met didn’t admit liability and rejected requests for a letter of apology, but it did say it would learn from Valeri’s case and …
Labour’s green paper on violence against women also falls short Lisa Longstaff 19 May 2021 Labour wants to put violence against women and girls at the top of its agenda. But the proposals in its green paper are a mixed bag. We welcome the recognition that financial independence is the first step to escaping an abuser. …
Abolish Detention – No to Hassockfield https://womenagainstrape.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ConRT_1.mp4 Cristel Amiss, Global Women Against Deportations – part of the grassroots campaign calling for an end to building Hassockfield – a new detention Centre for women – planned by the Home Secretary. “The systematic racist and sexist abuse that is detention and deportation must end – many more …
