CWJ statement on Angiolini Inquiry and former Home Secretary U-Turn
CWJ Response to the latest news on Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick
Inquest into the death of Soraya
Soraya’s parents want to know why their daughter died, why she wasn’t better protected from her partner and for the full circumstances around the police decisions to be investigated.
Hague Mothers - how women across the world are being penalized & criminalized for trying to protect their children from abusive fathers
Sarah Marie writes about her experience of The Hague Convention and the death of her friend Narkis Golan, a fellow victim of both male violence and the Convention itself.
A Victory for Victims of Transnational Marriage Abandonment
In October 2022 a landmark High Court judgment was given that makes clear that the Home Office’s failure to make provision for abandoned spouses amounts to unlawful discrimination within the meaning of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”). Pragna Patel explains what this means for abused women who are left stranded abroad by their perpetrators.
Our Human Rights Act Matters - letter to the PM & political leaders
Justice Unwrapped: Empowering Survivors of Violence
How we are putting more rapists and child abusers behind barS
This week another perpetrator of child rape and sexual abuse was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to 12 charges. He would still be free if it hadn’t been for CWJ’s intervention.
Jury Returns Verdict Damning Of West Midlands Police Following Three Week Inquest Into Solihull Double Homicide Case
Inquest Into Solihull Double Homicide Evidence Reveals A Catalogue Of Horrifying Failures By West Midlands Police
Inquest into Solihull Double Homicide Commences 31 October will explore the role of police, social services and other agencies in the lead up to the homicide
Centre for Women’s Justice Respond to Baroness Louise Casey’s report into misconduct by Metropolitan police officers
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’