Annual progress report shows that the Government’s failure to protect migrant women continues to prevent the UK’s ratification of Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and girls.
Members of the House of Lords hear from migrant women survivors and women's organisations about the barriers migrant women face when fleeing abuse, and the amendments needed to ensure migrant women are protected by the Domestic Abuse Bill.
Final chance for MPs to vote on amendments after Government publish disappointing review on Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse last week
Clear message about the importance of specialist support for BME women
Report into child contact cases found abuse is systematically minimised by the court process, and that an adversarial process often worsened conflict between parents, which could retraumatise victims and their children.
With your support, we lobby and campaign for strategic approaches to ending violence against women and challenge the wider public attitudes that tolerate and condone violence against women.