Last week (29th April), the Prime Minister prorogued parliament until Wednesday 13th May when the next Parliamentary session will begin. Prorogation is the period between the end of a parliamentary session and the beginning of the new session. The new…
Ahead of the local elections in England and the national elections in the Welsh Senedd and Scottish Holyrood today (7th May 2026), the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) wrote to party leaders and Local Government Association (LGA) Group Chairs…
Last year, the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) and 60+ other expert violence against women and girls (VAWG) organisations set out our expectations for the government’s long-awaited VAWG strategy, following concerns about its delayed publication. We set out five…
Women’s rights groups have issued a call to “change the narrative”, as disinformation about violence against women and girls (VAWG) continues to be used as “a tool for political point scoring”. Campaigners say the use of arguments about VAWG to…
Ofcom has been warned it could face a judicial review over its alleged failure to act against platforms hosting non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material on forums which group images by location. Intimate images are posted of women…
Today (18th February 2026) the government has announced measures requiring tech platforms to take down intimate images shared without a victim's consent within 48 hours. Through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, companies will be legally required to…
New Interim Director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition The End Violence Against Women Coalition team is pleased to announce that Janaya Walker has been appointed Interim Director following the departure of Andrea Simon, who will take up the…
Today (6th February 2026), following months of campaigning by survivor Jodie*, End Violence Against Women Coalition, #NotYourPorn, Professor Clare McGlynn and Glamour UK, a new law comes into force making it a criminal offence to create or ask someone to…
Andrea Simon, who has worked at EVAW for over 8 years and led the Coalition since 2021, has been appointed the next Victims Commissioner for London. She will officially take up her post on 1 March 2026. While we know she…
The government has today (18th December 2025) published its long-awaited violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy, following its ambitious manifesto commitment to halve this abuse within a decade. The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) welcomes the publication of…