Yesterday (22nd July 2025), the Law Commission published its long awaited report into sexual offences, making 72 recommendations to improve the understanding of consent and sexual harm in the criminal justice process, improve treatment of victims and ensure defendants receive…
Today (17th July 2025) the Home Office announced £53million funding for work to reduce offending by perpetrators of violence against women and girls (VAWG). Responding to the announcement, Andrea Simon, Director of the End Violence Aganst Women Coalition (EVAW), said:…
The Department for Education (DfE) has today (15th July 2025) published details of its new statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education guidance for schools. The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) welcomes its new focus on helping boys identify positive…
Today (14th July 2025), the End Violence Against Women Coalition has published a report setting out the evidence base for how best to engage men and boys in ending violence against women and girls. Produced with leading academics Professor Nicole…
Today (11th July 2025) a parliamentary committee has raised the alarm about the government’s fragmented, short-term approach to funding work to end violence against women and girls (VAWG) - jeopardising its own mission to halve VAWG in a decade. The…
Today (9th July 2025) the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part I has been published. Led by Sir Brian Leveson, the review outlines major structural reforms aimed at addressing delays and inefficiencies in the Crown Court. Echoing concerns repeatedly…
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…