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Supporting Your Friend Through Sexual Assault
All things considered, you’re a pretty awesome and supportive friend. But what happens if your friend tells you that they have been sexually assaulted?
The More We Work Together, The More R Kelly Will Be Held Accountable
You’d be hard pressed to open a newspaper today without someone in a position of power and in the public eye having allegations of sexual violence made against them. Bringing sexual violence to the forefront in part thanks to collective social movements such as #MeToo, #TimesUp and also UK SAYS NO MORE on this side …
Blue Sky Thinking | The Old Vic
Written by Kate Varah, Executive Director of The Old Vic This blog post originally appeared on Kate Varah’s LinkedIn page Writing this mid-air on a flight back from New York where we’ve been at the opening of GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at the Public Theater in Manhattan, an Old Vic production written and directed …
Tackling Violence & Abuse Against Disabled Women & Girls | AVA
Written by Ruth Atkinson, Project Manager, AVA (Against Violence & Abuse) Women living with disability are twice as likely to suffer abuse than non-disabled women. They also generally suffer abuse for longer periods of time. Whether or not this comes as a surprise, these facts are pretty disturbing. And yet, this reality is often missed from …
#WhatICanDo To Help Someone Who Has Experienced Economic Abuse | Surviving Economic Abuse
The mission of Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is to raise awareness of and transform responses to economic abuse. We want society to understand what economic abuse is, how to recognise it within the context of domestic violence and what individuals can do to support victim-survivors. We work with a group of women who are ‘Experts …
The Conversation Has Started, It Continues With Employers | The Corporate Alliance
Written by Melissa Morbeck of The Corporate Alliance Against Domestic Violence Age is a funny thing – there is a certain perspective and calmness that washes over my work and my life, allowing me to see the ups and downs, struggles and successes in a light of hope and serenity. Oh, that serenity doesn’t often …
Working With Corporations To Tackle Harassment And Abuse| Stay Safe Global
Stay Safe Global is working with UK SAYS NO MORE to help end domestic abuse and sexual violence. Harassment, controlling behaviour and domestic violence are global issues and, with thousands of victims losing their lives each year, we need to have a global solution. Over the past year, Stay Safe Global has been working with …
Abuse Isn’t Always Violent | Revenge Porn Helpline
Revenge Porn Helpline‘s Kate Worthington on the nature of Image-Based Abuse. Abuse happens. A recent UN study has found that the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, with over half of women who were murdered last year being killed by their partners or family. The 16 days of activism is …
Merton Council: Working To End Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Speaking of Sexual Violence: A Provocation
During an introduction to a City Eye Southampton Film Week screening of The Rape of Recy Taylor (Nancy Buirski 2017) at Solent University earlier this month, a brief exchange ensued about how we overcome the difficulty of starting conversations that address challenging topics. This was not about how we actively tackle issues of sexual violence, racism and …
