Letter to BBC Woman’s Hour: parental alienation interview, 26 April 2019

Letter to Woman’s Hour: parental alienation interview, 26 April 201 30 April 2019 Dear Woman’s Hour We object in the strongest possible terms to Woman’s Hour’s sexist broadcast on 26 April about ‘parental alienation’. Woman’s Hour’s website says it is ‘the programme that offers a female perspective of the world’. This interview offered the perspective …

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Event: WAR on Mayday march, 1 May – join us

Meet Clerkenwell Green from 12.00 march to Trafalgar Square. https://www.londonmayday.org/ We will highlight our campaign with the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union to end sexual harassment in the fast food and hospitality industries. Poverty wages, zero hour contracts, benefit cuts, insecure immigration status and the threat that we can lose our job or that …

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In the media: Rape convictions – juries are not to blame, biased investigations and prosecutions are

Rape convictions: juries are not to blame, biased investigations and prosecutions are MP Anne Coffey got a lot of publicity last week when she said in Parliament that juries in rape trials should be abolished, arguing that this is the solution to the low conviction rate. Juries are not to blame for the falling conviction …

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Statement: Government’s planned review of compensation rules

Our comment on Government’s planned review of CICA rules   MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCES REVIEW OF COMPENSATION RULES ON SEXUAL OFFENCES – a VICTORY for grassroots campaigners! “Nobody should be made to feel worthless as you do when you get a compensation refusal letter.” The announcement 9-10 September from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) that …

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Evidence to Home Affairs Committee on Domestic Violence, 5 July 2018

Evidence to Home Affairs Committee on Domestic Violence, 5 July 2018 Summary: This evidence covers five key policy areas that result in increased vulnerability to domestic violence and lack of resources to escape violent men: Family courts and domestic violence Austerity cuts and domestic violence Destitution – a recipe for domestic violence The hostile environment …

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Open Letter for compensation to Secretary of Justice

Open Letter for compensation to Secretary of Justice Rt Hon. David Gauke Secretary of State for Justice  6 June 2018 Dear David Gauke We collectively represent the experience and demands of thousands of survivors of rape, domestic violence and sex crimes suffered as children or adults. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is discriminating against victims …

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Letter to Justice Secretary: Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme

From: WOMEN AGAINST RAPE David Lidington david.lidington.mp@parliament.uk Justice Secretary – Ministry of Justice 28 July 2017 Dear David Lidington Re Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and Authority (CICA) We echo demands in the letters to you from MP Sarah Champion, shadow minister for women and equalities, and from a coalition of charities[1] that the Criminal Injuries …

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