Children born of rape should be recognised as secondary victims of crime says Justice Committee report
Daisy’s Law’: New research commissioned by Centre for Women’s Justice demonstrates why children born from rape should be recognised as ‘victims’ in law
No safe space: Lessons for national policy and local practice in a new CWJ report on the West Midlands multi-agency response to women involved in offending who are victims of domestic abuse
Nominations are now open for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize
Police perpetrated domestic abuse “the police response to PPDA is significantly harming the interests of the public.”
International day for the elimination of sexual violence in conflict - ‘I would rather have been murdered, than endure what I did’
On 19 June 2015, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 19th June of each year the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, in order to raise awareness of the need to put an end to conflict-related sexual violence. Rita Kahsay, a young British Tigrayan activist, describes the current appalling genocide and use of rape as a war crime in Tigray
CWJ 10-step Manifesto: 10 - How perpetrators use the legal system to control women
Harriet Wistrich reflects on how perpetrators often misuse legal proceedings to seek revenge and silence their victims.
It’s time to bring an end to strangulation as weapon of choice for abusers
Is the new law going to make a difference to women’s lives or will it sit relatively unused on the statute books, like some of the other measures intended to tackle domestic abuse? CWJ’s Nogah Ofer discusses thel ong-awaited new law which comes into force force creating a stand-alone offence of ‘non-fatal strangulation and suffocation’
New criminal offence of non-fatal strangulation finally becomes law
CWJ statement on ICO report ‘Who’s under Investigation’
Woman launches legal case against MI5 in relation to informant who terrorised her
PR: Woman launches legal case against MI5 in relation to informant who terrorised her
Beth*, the former girlfriend of an MI5 informant who abused her with impunity as revealed by the BBC last night, has launched a legal complaint and claim in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
Rochdale Grooming Survivors Win Historic Victory
New report from Centre for Women’s Justice exposes how victims of violence against women and girls are unfairly criminalised
Deep Deception: Groomed, Gaslighted, Ghosted
..the idea that the state would invest hundreds of thousands of pounds into creating and maintaining a sophisticated operation that would place police officers deep undercover to gather intelligence on mainly left wing, environmental and social justice campaigns, was surely the stuff of fiction…
#GiveHerJustice event available to watch now & match campaign extended!
Fri Martin is free! Help us help other women. #GiveHerJustice
Fri Martin’s ‘story’ was last week featured on the BBC Three documentary entitled ‘Bad Love: Why did Fri kill Kyle?”. If the film had instead been entitled, “Bad Justice: Why was Fri convicted of murder?”, it could have shown how the criminal justice system is heavily stacked against women, and particularly black working class women