Yesterday, (26th June 2024), an inquest found that failings across multiple agencies contributed to murder of Zara Aleena two years ago. Giving their verdict, the jury found that multiple state agencies’ failures to act in line with policies and procedures…
New data from the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) finds that 76% of people do not trust politicians generally to tackle violence against women and girls. With political parties’ general election campaigns underway and violence against women and girls…
The End Violence Against Women Coalition, #NotYourPorn and Professor Clare McGlynn are calling on the next government to protect women’s rights and freedoms online, in partnership with GLAMOUR magazine. In a new campaign launched today (19th June 2024), the experts…
After over a year of speculation in Parliament and the press, the government has now (16th May 2024) published its draft Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) guidance and announced an 8 week public consultation. Last year, the government announced…
As part of its ongoing End-to-End Rape Review, the government has last month (15th April 2024) released data showing the shocking scale of police requests for rape survivors’ ‘third party materials’ - their private counselling notes, mobile phone data, and…
The government has today (23rd April 2024) accepted an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill that will raise the legal threshold for when rape survivors’ counselling notes can be requested by the police. The amendment was tabled in the House of…
Today (17th April 2024) Eastenders will air an hour-long special focusing on a storyline about sexual assault. The soap’s Yolande Trueman will be subjected to a sexual assault at the hands of her church pastor, following a period of sexual…
UPDATE: The proposed criminalisation of creating non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes did not become an offence as the legal proposals were dropped when the 2024 General Election was called. The Ministry of Justice has today (16th April 2024) announced that individuals…
A new survey of young people has found that gaps in schools’ education are driving them towards porn and social media for information about sex and relationships. Released yesterday (11th April 2024), the Sex Education Forum’s survey found: Less than…
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has this week (12th March 2024) published the final findings of its research on improving responses to rape - part of Operation Soteria, of the most promising outcomes of the government’s Rape Review. Despite rape…