BRIEFING: Domestic Abuse Bill ‘Needs to Go Further’, Argues Victims’ Rights Group (6 October 2020) Mohamed Elmaazi Sputnik International 29 September 2020 Local councils and refuges continue to lack the necessary funding to assist victims of domestic abuse in the UK, and while the upcoming Domestic Abuse Bill offers some important developments it doesn’t go …
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 …
Briefing – Domestic Abuse Bill Briefing to House of Lords (20 July 2020) Second reading – 5 January 2021 This Briefing is from Women Against Rape (WAR) and Support Not Separation Coalition. Since 1976 WAR has provided advocacy and information in individual cases and campaigns for justice, asylum, protection and compensation. It has won …
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 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rejected a coroner’s call to act to prevent benefit claimants taking their own lives, following the suicide …
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 …
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 …
Landmark rape case brought by Kentish Town campaigners is turned into a play Bridget Galton Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape and Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes outside Crossroads Women’s Centrein Kentish Town where they are based – Credit: Archant In 1995 Women Against Rape and the English Collective of Prostitutes joined …
Please note – all shows are now sold out See this page for reviews, pics, info on our cast and history of the play and trial. Some fabulous photos from the play by the renowned photographer Simon Annand: REVIEWS: Review 31: Because she was a prostitute – review by Frith Taylor . . . The …
Dame Vera Baird QC warns over failure to prosecute as charge rate drops from 6.8% to 4.2% PA Media Thu 29 Aug 2019 00.01 BST Dame Vera Baird, the victims’ commissioner, called for the government to act quickly in its review of the handling of complaints. The criminal justice system is putting more people at risk by …
Assange: UN Rapporteur on Torture is right to be alarmed at the manipulation of rape allegations For over four decades we have campaigned to get rapists convicted. But the pursuit of Julian Assange is not driven by any concerns about rape but by US government pressure to punish him for his Wikileaks exposes on war …
