Early next year the High Court will consider a ground breaking legal challenge brought by several women challenging the criminalisation and continued punishment of prostituted women.  If successful, it will bring to an end a shameful practice in modern day Britain, where those who are victims of abuse and exploitation continue to be labelled and punished for something that was in a large part done to them

This week Harriet Wistrich lodged a complaint of institutionalised discrimination against women under the Optional protocol of CEDAW.

Seven women psychologically and sexually abused by undercover policemen infiltrating UK protest groups have lodged a complaint to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

New report on the detention of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence

On 27 July the Divisional Court1 will hear an application from the Government to stay a ground-breaking legal challenge of its policy in relation to the retention and disclosure of criminal convictions arising from soliciting offences.

School X - a co-educational, Muslim voluntary aided school in the UK - segregates its pupils based on their gender. From the age of 9 to 16, Muslim boys and girls are segregated for everything - during lessons and all breaks, activities and school trips.