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Statement: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkley, we are fighting for justice for all…

14 July 20238 June 1985

Statement: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkeley we are fighting for justice for all. On 19 April, 1984, Ms Jacqueline Berkeley and three other young Black women were arrested after an alleged disturbance in Manchester. At Moss Side Police Station, Ms Berkeley was taken into a cell, script naked, racially abused and raped by …

Book review: London inquiry into rape – Dismissing the “myth of the dark stranger.”

14 July 202318 January 1985

Book review : London inquiry into rape – Dismissing the “myth of the dark stranger.” Ask Any Woman is the first major survey into rape in Britain. It shows a staggering level of rape and sexual assault – in the street, on public transport, at home, on housing estates, rape in marriage, rape and assault …

Book launch: The Rapist Who Pays The Rent – women’s case for changing the law on rape

14 July 20238 June 1984

Book launch: The Rapist Who Pays The Rent – women’s case for changing the Law on Rape. This is the handbook of the movement to make rape in marriage a crime. It also describes how rape outside marriage is dealt with by police and courts, who often support and even encourage the rapist, whether he’s …

Parliament considers: Rape in Marriage. A Public Meeting

14 July 20234 May 1983

Parliament considers Rape in Marriage, WAR public meeting “Most people agree that marriage should be an equal relationship. How can there be equality when one partner is legally entitled to rape the other? Instead the law says that in marriage, the man is the boss and the women is his property.”

Against our selves: why Women Against Rape couldn’t join a march through Soho.

27 June 202314 February 1981

Against ourselves: Why Women Against Rape couldn’t join a march through Soho… Whose Night? Women Against Rape, the English Collective of Prostitutes and the Wages for Housework Campaign were unable to take part in the Nation Union of Student’s Reclaim the Night march in February 1981 and were forced to leave a planning meeting for …

Women at W.A.R

14 July 20231 April 1978

Women at W.A.R. Our first publication presents personal stories. If you really want to know about rape, read this. For the first time print, women in Britain tell of the rape they have experienced – and what they are doing to stop it.

Article: When rape, like charity begins at home

14 July 202315 August 1977

After publication of an article in the Guardian, a group of Women Against Rape campaign burned a copy of the issue outside the Guardian offices...

Women march in rape protest

14 July 20231 July 1977

Women march in rape protest The women of Waltham forest took to the streets of London last week to demonstrate their horror at the act of rape and speak out…

Women against rape: An introduction and statement of aims

28 June 202325 May 1976

Women against rape: An introduction and statement of aims. More than ever before the front pages of our newspapers are reporting cases of rape. Married or single, young, old or still a child, whatever her race or class – every women knows it could happen to her….