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One in six women has been raped. Of Black women, nearly 1 in 8 has suffered racist sexual assault. Two women a week are murdered by their partner or ex-partner. 98% of domestic violence is not reported to the police. Only 2.7% of applications for paternal child contact are refused (of a total of 46,000 in 2003). An estimated 50% of women seeking asylum in Britain have fled rape. Less than 6% of reported rapes result in conviction. International statistics on rape from the UN
WAR offers support,
BWRAP offers practical support and counselling to:
Black and
immigrant women and other women of colour, including asylum
seekers
One in three people blame women for being raped, finds Amnesty
survey
- WAR's comment US Judge Theresa Deni rules that a victim working as a prostitute, could not be raped: it was “theft of services” Extraordinary speech by Indian woman on village protests against rape led by grassroots women |
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Senior Met officer blames scepticism for low conviction rate,
Guardian 4
March, Read WAR's
Response
Article in Tribune about safety of sex workers Why society is still failing prostitutes' Guardian Letters
Appeal: Peace M's three children are lost in Burundi and she needs money to find them.
Good news! Betty and her children reunited
£15,000 for asylum seeker illegally detained in UK
International Women's Day 8 March 2008Picket Serco Research Institute at 4:30 pm"Close down Yarl's Wood &all Detention Centres"
Janipher Maseko's interviewFirst person| Family | Guardian Unlimited
24 Nov 2007
Safe at last: Rape
victim is granted asylum
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Why so few convictions for rape and racist violence? |
Guardian quotes WAR, 15 Jan 08
Delegation of rape
survivors meet with
Solicitor General,
29 March & 9 May
press report
One third of dropped cases should have been pursued, says report, 31 Jan 07
Letter
to Metropolitan Police Authority
Re: 2007 consultation on Met Police priorities
The format
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agenda being put forward. We cannot therefore send in our views
within the provided format, and write instead with our
objections.
PRESS
RELEASE:
The homicide review into the deaths of Julia and William
Pemberton begins this week,
Jan 07
My sister was killed while the police did nothing
Observer 11 March
Rape Convictions,
Letter to
Guardian 10 Feb 07
Press release:
Without Consent
2007 report of Her Majesty's Inspectorates
'Don't you want to
know why I'm bleeding?'
Man convicted of GBH against a Muslim woman,
Guardian 2 Aug 06
'Why we believe the
police have lost sight of rape',
Times 17 Jan 06
While Tony and Ian Blair focus on defeating
terrorists, are domestic violence, rape and racist assault being
forgotten?
Ian Huntley was not a one-off
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Legal backlash against rape survivors |
Press your MP to sign
EDM 1082 -
ANONYMITY IN RAPE CASES
Women who falsely cry rape could be named
and shamed by judges
Times 10 March 07
Letter to the
Attorney General
protesting prosecutions of women who report rape and breach of
their anonymity - please endorse
Press release
more on
press highlights page
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Winning compensation |
Rape survivors win
right to sue,
Guardian
31 Jan 08
How we helped a London rape survivor
double her compensation award
My struggle for
compensation for rape as a child
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Rape of women in Iraq |
Rape of women in
Iraq & Afghanistan by US/UK Forces
Press Statement
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Journalist
Giuliana Sgrena kidnapped
All Iraq is Abu Graib,
Haifa Zangana, July
06
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Campaigning for justice in the 21st
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Rape
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Women Against Rape & Black Women's Rape Action
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Evidence to Judicial Studies Board Equal Treatment Advisory Committee
Kenyan Women To Sue British Army for
Alleged Rapes
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