International Archives - Women Against Rape

Misjudging Rape – Breaching Gender Guidelines & International Law in Asylum Appeals

6 July 202318 November 2006

RESEARCH: Misjudging Rape – Breaching Gender Guidelines & International Law in Asylum Appeals Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape’s research documents the discrimination and hostility women seeking asylum from rape face. Over 70% of the women claiming asylum in the UK are rape survivors. Many face severe obstacles at every stage of …

Rape like charity begins at home: an international anti racist perspective on violence against women

14 July 202329 April 1992

Black Women for Wages for Housework contextualise rape, sexism and equality, within the Black movement Racism combines with sexism to lower further the value of Black Women’s lives, so the rape and other violence Black women face is unrecognised or disregarded, and Black women are less likely to have the economic resources or social mobility …