Yesterday (19th June 2025) the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Rape Crisis England & Wales, Centre for Women's Justice and Rights of Women were awarded joint winners of the Sheila MacKechnie Foundation's Campaign of the Year award for our successful…
Yesterday (18th June 2025), the government announced landmark plans to make pornography depicting any act of strangulation illegal, a move called for by the recent Independent Porn Review. The Review, conducted by Baroness Gabby Bertin, found that violent pornography has effectively established…
A survivor of domestic abuse as a teenager who launched a major campaign for educational reform has delivered her 100,000-strong Change.org petition to 10 Downing Street. Faustine Petron, now a University of Cambridge student, is a young survivor of a…
The far-right has long co-opted sexual violence to promote its racist, white supremacist agenda. These are often known misogynists who do nothing to meaningfully improve women and girls’ autonomy, rights and freedoms, and tend to have patriarchal views. Violence against…
Today (11th June 2025), Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves presented the government’s Spending Review which sets out the budget for all government departments over the next few years. Today’s Spending Review once again prioritises short-term infrastructure gains over long-term…
As part of its manifesto and mission-driven approach, the Labour government committed to a landmark goal to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) in a decade. But nearly a year later we are yet to see any detail about…
Today, the government has responded to recommendations from the Independent Sentencing Review, which was commissioned by the Justice Secretary last year to bring forward proposals to address the crisis in prison capacity. While a number of early prison release measures…
The government’s response to the Women and Equalities Committee report on tackling non-consensual intimate image abuse (NCII) represents “a missed opportunity to deliver justice for survivors and prevent future harm”, says Andrea Simon, Director of the End Violence Against Women…
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has today (16th May 2025) published a report finding that the government response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) is continually failing to fund and prioritise work to prevent harmful attitudes and tackle harmful…
The government has today (7th May 2025) introduced a new Victims and Courts Bill aiming to better protect victims and improve access to justice. Some of the measures announced today reflect the tireless campaigning of victims and their families; many…