POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Apr 14, 2017

Help fight the rape clause

Five things you can do to help get the UK government to scrap the ‘family cap’ and ‘rape clause’. Engender has released a special edition of #FridayFeministFive focusing on their campaign calling on the UK Government to scrap the abhorrent ‘family cap’ and the ‘rape clause’. Here are 5 simple things you can do to help. 1) Sign the petition. Engender, Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland have submitted a petition to the UK Parliament petitions...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Mar 10, 2017

Human rights, the Home Secretary and rape

Police take rape victims back to court following “shameful” intervention from Theresa May. The Metropolitan Police will next week argue in the Supreme Court that they should not be legally obliged to follow their own guidance and properly investigate serious crimes such as sexual assault and rape. But civil liberties and human rights campaigner Liberty is intervening in the case of ‘DSD’ and ‘NBV’ – two victims of ‘black cab rapist’ John Worboys, who is...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Feb 27, 2017

Redefining an isolated incident

In the UK killings of women and girls by men are not ‘isolated incidents’. Despite femicide being identified globally as a leading cause of premature death for women, little research has been made into this issue in the UK. Women’s Aid are working to change that. A ground breaking report called Redefining an Isolated Incident examines femicide – the murder of women because they are women – using data from the Femicide Census. Its key findings were that between 1...