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

6 July 202326 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 …

Press release: protest rape and racism

11 March 202126 June 2013

Press release: protest rape and racism Old Bailey, London, 26 June 2013, 10-12 noon Sentencing of the Oxford rapists Women protest both rape and racism. Police and social workers also trashed victims – will they be prosecuted? Seven men will be sentenced for 43 offences – ranging from rape and conspiracy to rape to supplying …

BWRAP letter to the police, fighting for justice with Ms PB.

5 July 202328 November 2008

Letter to police, fighting for justice for Ms PB Black Women’s Rape Action Project informs the police about the racially motivated arson attack of Ms PB.

‘Don’t you want to know why I’m bleeding?’

28 June 20236 August 2006

‘Don’t you want to know why I’m bleeding?’ An assault by a white neighbour on a Muslim woman in London has shown just how difficult it can be for victims of alleged racist attacks to prise open the doors of justice. Laura Smith reports Bilan Mohamud shows the injuries inflicted on her by a neighbour …

Racism against asylum seekers

5 July 20238 July 2004

The Guardian article below came about as a result of Legal Action for Women’s National Gathering on Saturday 3 July 2004. Kamwaura Nygothi was one of a number of women who raised the racism they were suffering in the North East of England. As a result of the article we have received many sympathetic responses, …

Statement: Dispatches Racism – A danger to all women.

20 July 202323 November 1998

BWRAP speak out against the racist BBC programme. Dispatches promoted racist stereotypes with the dangerous lie that most gang rape is committed by Black boys. This leaves Black women even more vulnerable to rape.

In the media: What black viewers think

20 July 202319 November 1998

In the Guardian, an article responding to Dispatches programme. This documentary has demonised young black men – stereotyping them as sexual attackers and the effects of such racism is profound.

In the media: “Law and order” does not always lead to justice.

19 July 20231 August 1997

Policy often divert attention from the real obstacles of justice which victims face. Such policies provide a smokescreen for the sexism, racism, class and other forms of discrimination. Read the article in New Law Journal in full below.

Cracker programme (TV) – protest racism

14 July 202325 November 1994

A Danger to Women.

Granada television's episodes of Cracker promotes the classic racist stereotype of Black rapist and white victim.

In the media: TV rape slur angers black viewers

14 July 202324 November 1994

As reported in The Weekly Journal, drama production Cracker is under attack from a Black Women’s group for its portrayal of Black men as rapists. Women Against Rape demand that the remaining two programmes are withdrawn and not televised.