EVAW's Director Andrea Simon spoke to @skynewsrss.bsky.social about the ban on strangulation in porn. This is a vital step in recognising the role violent porn plays in shaping attitudes and driving dangerous behaviours, as well as regulating an industry that promotes and profits from VAWG.

Welcome move to ban strangulation in porn and hold tech platforms accountable for proactively detecting and removing it - reflecting years of campaigning by EVAW and others who've long warned about the normalisation of violence against women in online content.

The European Convention on Human Rights is a crucial tool in the fight to end violence against women and girls, providing victims/survivors with access to support when they're failed by the State. 📣 We join 300 orgs calling on govt to defend our rights! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We are horrified by reports of yet another racially motivated rape. We stand in solidarity with the woman attacked in Walsall. Black and minoritised women are disproportionately targeted with male violence and systematically failed when they report this abuse. We demand justice!

The removal of children on the advice of unregulated experts instructed by the family courts is a “national scandal”, the incoming victims' commissioner @ldnvictimscomm.bsky.social has told @tbij.bsky.social. She is calling for an urgent review of all Melanie Gill's cases. 🧵 tinyurl.com/bp9smemn

Landmark decision in the family courts, which should never rely on reports from unregulated psychologists. Thanks to @rightsofwomen.bsky.social for advocating for survivors and @hansummers.bsky.social at TBIJ for bringing public attention to how women and children are failed by the family courts.

💫 This week, we held our third annual Prevention Conference. With the theme #ADifferentWorldIsPossible, we explored the steps needed to make this ambition a reality. 🧵

Incredible news! We strongly welcome plans to repeal the presumption of parental involvement, which will protect children from abuse & save lives. This is a long overdue change to how our family courts operate. Hugely grateful to Claire Throssell for her tireless campaigning @womensaid.bsky.social

This #BlackHistoryMonth, EVAW's Director Andrea Simon talked to @respectuk.bsky.social about what 'standing firm in power and pride' means in the context of feminist movements to end violence against women, and what more needs to be done to address inequalities in access to justice and support.

What would you do if you were totally free to live your best and biggest life? Gender-based violence shapes women’s and girls’ lives in so many different ways - quietly limiting our freedoms and holding us back from following our dreams.

The racist weaponisation of survivors’ trauma is having horrifying impacts on communities across the country. We welcome new police VAWG lead Helen Millichap's comments. The evidence shows the vast majority of perpetrators of violence against women and girls are known to the victim.

There remains a deeply rooted culture of institutional racism and misogyny within the Met, which the force has yet to properly address. These latest revelations are appalling and just a snapshot of what is happening in forces across the country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We stand in solidarity with the victim-survivors of this appalling male violence. Too many women and girls are disbelieved when they come forward to report rape and sexual abuse, and failed by the public agencies meant to protect them. This is unacceptable

🚨 CLOSING TODAY! 🚨 🗞️ How the media reports on violence against women shapes public awareness and beliefs. ✍️ Join us in uplifting journalism that centres survivors and helps shift the attitudes that drive abuse. 🔗 Nominate an article for an award here bit.ly/3J0EEhk

We welcome cyberflashing being made a priority offence in the #OnlineSafetyAct, which will require tech companies to do more to identify it. This must translate into stronger preventative action to stop it from happening and protect women and girls online.

This week, we're part of a #VAWGTakeover of the #LabourPartyConference, calling on the government to take a whole-society approach to ending violence against women and girls - rooted in prevention and centring the most marginalised.

📣 Proud to be part of the #Lab25 VAWG takeover 📣 ➡️ This is a vital opportunity for the government to reset its approach. 🗣️ We call on the gov to listen to violence against women organisations, centre women and girls and ensure that VAWG is a political priority.

Great to join @rapecrisis.bsky.social @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social & School of Sex Education at the @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social event on making halving VAWG a reality. If the gov is serious about committing to its pledge, it must listen to VAWG orgs and take an urgent approach rooted in prevention

Following #LabourPartyConference? Watch the #VAWGTakeover with @evawuk.bsky.social Southall Black Sisters, @lawrsuk.bsky.social @4refugeewomen.bsky.social Rape Crisis England & Wales, Women’s Aid, @refugecharity.bsky.social @respectuk.bsky.social @seacharity.bsky.social @safelives.bsky.social & us.

After our coalition event we'll be turning to how we stop online violence against women and girls with @evawuk.bsky.social and make Big Tech meet their responsibilities.

🚨 Just 4 days til closing! 🚨 🗞️ How the media reports on violence against women shapes public awareness and beliefs. ✍️ Join us in uplifting journalism that centres survivors and helps shift the attitudes driving abuse. 🔗 Nominate an article for an award! bit.ly/3J0EEhk @nujofficial.bsky.social

Great piece and insight from colleagues in @refugecharity.bsky.social team supporting victims of domestic abuse, who are increasingly subjected to perpetrators' use of technology to coerce, control and harm.

Following the #LabourPartyConference? Keep an eye out for the #VAWGTakeover to hear how the government must put women and girls at the centre of its plans.

Today on #NationalDayOfRemembrance we are remembering victims of fatal domestic abuse, including those who die by suicide.

We’re devastated and outraged by the racist violence we are seeing. We stand in solidarity with the 9 year old girl shot with an airgun in a racially aggravated attack and the Sikh woman in Oldbury who was raped by two men who told her she was ‘not welcome in this country’. 🧵

🚨 New #GirlsAttitudes Survey from Girlguiding finds: ➡️ 68% of girls change their everyday behaviour to avoid sexual harassment ➡️ 70% of young women and girls say politicians aren't showing enough commitment to tackling misogyny and sexism

Going to the Labour Party Conference? Join us, @evawuk.bsky.social & Minister Alex Davies-Jones to discuss how Labour can deliver on its pledge to halve VAWG in a decade. When: 28 Sept, 13:30–15:00 Where: Leonardo Hotel, Suite 3/4/5 (secure zone) Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-small-c...

A powerful read. Our thoughts and solidarity are with Sabina Nessa's loved ones on the anniversary of her murder.

With @lawrsuk.bsky.social, @sbsisters.bsky.social and over 70 organisations, we’ve sent a joint statement to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging the government to scrap its white paper and end its harmful approach to immigration ➡️ buff.ly/mAzPl65

🚨 Amidst a surge in far-right anti-migrant protests, racist abuse, and Islamophobic rhetoric across the UK, read specialist organisation Imkaan's statement about the escalating risks to the safety and freedom of Black and minoritised women and girls ➡️ bit.ly/4gpqsz1

Sickening reports of a racially motivated rape of a Sikh woman. We stand in solidarity with her and all those harmed and retraumatised by this weekend's appalling far-right demo. The weaponisation of violence against women is #NotInOurName

🚨 Closing this Wednesday! 🚨 Join our team as EVAW’s Membership & Engagement Manager and put your passion for gender equality, human rights and anti-racism into action as we launch a new 5-year strategy to end violence against women. 🔗 Apply here bit.ly/4ncCs9K

We stand against the dangerous minimisation of violence against women by those in positions of power - as well as its weaponisation to further racist, anti-migrant agendas. We demand urgent action against the rollback of our rights, which are the cornerstone of ending VAWG.

The stories we tell about violence against women and girls shapes attitudes, beliefs, and the reality we live in. Narratives that downplay and minimise abuse harm and silence survivors - particularly when spread by those in the highest positions of power, such as politicians and the media.

📣There's still time to nominate an article for our Write to End Violence Against Women Awards! The media plays a vital role in shaping our collective attitudes and challenging harmful narratives 🧵

❗️Perpetrators should not be able to use the legal system to silence survivors. Take action with @cbmsuk.bsky.social 👉 cantbuymysilence.co.uk/letter-1

NEW: 60+ organisations have set out five key asks for the government's new violence against women strategy, as concerns grow about its delay, the funding crisis for services and the hijacking of VAWG to promote an anti-migrant agenda #NotInOurName

We can't end violence against women and girls while lies about its causes are endorsed by those in positions of power. The facts about VAWG in the UK are stark. Weaponising violence to further a racist agenda is #NotInOurName Great visual explainer by @vulgadrawings.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Here’s a link to the useful guide by @evawuk.bsky.social and @hopenothate.org.uk that I used for this cartoon hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/u...

📣 We’re hiring! Join our team as EVAW’s Membership and Engagement Manager 🧵

“Since the Southport riots, people shout at us more in the street” "Safety was taken away from us again" Important and timely report by the Angelou Centre & @projectresist.bsky.social documents the impact of far-right riots on Black, minoritised and migrant women and children 🔗 bit.ly/4p7vuEg

Those genuinely concerned about violence against women must reject its weaponisation, which is harming minoritised communities and our ability to address the issues that need attention: investment in prevention work and funding for the life-changing services that support survivors #NotInOurName

The danger we face is not asylum seekers in hotels. It is a political culture that dresses racism in pink and calls it protection while cutting services victims need to survive. Any government serious about ending VAWG must stop blaming migrants and start resourcing the frontline.

We are seeing a surge in online abuse of women - from MPs to public figures - who speak out against gender-based violence being weaponised to promote a racist, anti-migrant agenda. It was clearly never about ending violence against women.

❗️Latest @amnestyuk.bsky.social research provides yet more evidence of Big Tech's role in spreading false narratives which drive real-life racist violence. We see how tech companies promote and profit from violence against women and racist abuse, and demand urgent action to hold them accountable.

📣 We’re hiring! Join our team as EVAW’s Membership and Engagement Manager 🧵

Solidarity with all those speaking out about harassment and abuse by perpetrators with power, wealth and status. The law should never be weaponised by perpetrators to silence survivors. We need an end to the culture of disbelief facing victims and survivors of male violence.

📢 Warning from over 200 organisations that the far-right has hijacked women’s safety for political gain. The Government must take urgent action to prevent misinformation spreading. #NotInOurName www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... @asylummatters.bsky.social @evawuk.bsky.social

100 Women's Rights Organisations, including @rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction. They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

The government has pledged to halve violence against women and girls. But this cannot be done while lies about its causes are endorsed by those in positions of power. The facts about VAWG in the UK are stark. Weaponising violence to further a racist agenda is #NotInOurName