An evidence review commissioned by Centre for Women’s Justice has found that children born as a result of rape are at risk of suffering serious and long-term harm due to the distressing circumstances of their birth, from infancy well into later life
Read moreNo safe space: Lessons for national policy and local practice in a new CWJ report on the West Midlands multi-agency response to women involved in offending who are victims of domestic abuse
In this new report, CWJ offers insights from women with lived experience and frontline practitioners in an examination of the approach taken by local agencies in the West Midlands in relation to victims of domestic abuse who are accused of offending.
Read moreCWJ Summer Newsletter
Welcome to the bumper Summer edition of the CWJ newsletter! We've loads to update you on below, including some fantastic opportunities to join the team!
Read moreNominations are now open for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize
Nominations are now open for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize and Centre for Women’s Justice Award 2022!
Read moreVacancies!
Would you like to help us hold the state to account for violence against women and girls?
We have three roles available - Lawyer, Finance Officer & Digital Comms Officer
Read morePR: Police perpetrated domestic abuse “the police response to PPDA is significantly harming the interests of the public.”
The report published today by the triumvirate body examining police super-complaints has found that many of the extremely concerning issues identified in the Centre for Women’s Justice super-complaint are borne out in a detailed study and 140 page report; ‘the most extensive inquiry’ into this issue ever undertaken in England and Wales’.
Read morePR: New criminal offence of non-fatal strangulation finally becomes law
A long-awaited new criminal offence, advocated for by Centre for Women’s Justice and introduced as an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Act one year ago, finally comes into force today.
Read morePR: CWJ statement on ICO report ‘Who’s under Investigation’
Conflicting guidance will not reassure women who report rape that their privacy rights will be respected.
Read morePR: Woman launches legal case against MI5 in relation to informant who terrorised her
Beth*, the former girlfriend of an MI5 informant who abused her with impunity as revealed by the BBC last night, has launched a legal complaint and claim in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
Read morePR: Rochdale Grooming Survivors Win Historic Victory
The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Stephen Watson QPM, has today met and personally apologised to three victims of grooming gangs in Rochdale for a catalogue of investigative failings that prevented their abusers from being brought to justice.
Read moreNew report from Centre for Women’s Justice exposes how victims of violence against women and girls are unfairly criminalised
Domestic abuse perpetrators are manipulating the justice system to extend their control over victims, so concludes a new major report published by Centre for Women’s Justice today.
Read more#GiveHerJustice event available to watch now & match campaign extended!
On Monday we spoke to Fri Martin and others about how the criminal justice system was failing women who have been criminalised as a result of male violence. If you missed the event, you can watch now.
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EVENT: 14th March - GIVE HER JUSTICE
Sally Challen, Emma-Jayne Magson, Fri Martin: Three cases, and three years on, we join to celebrate the remarkable victories but to bemoan to continued injustice that so many victims of male violence face. We look at what has changed in the criminal justice response to such cases, what still needs to change and how you can help.
Read morePR: JUSTICE and Centre for Women’s Justice call on Home Office to urgently reopen ‘Spy Cops’ code of practice consultation
JUSTICE’s Chief Executive, Fiona Rutherford, has jointly written alongside Harriet Wistrich, Founding Director of the Centre for Women’s Justice, to Damian Hinds MP, the Minister for Security and Borders. The letter highlights our serious concerns with the consultation process for the draft revised Code of Practice to be issued pursuant to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 (also known as the ‘Spy Cops’ Bill).
Read morePR: CWJ Comment on Cressida Dick's Resignation
Harriet Wistrich, director of Centre for Women's Justice, commenting on the news of Cressida Dick’s resignation
Read morePR: Police misogyny: Why won’t Priti Patel act?
CWJ’s comments on Priti Patel’s Home Affairs Select Committee statement re yesterday’s IOPC report into the behaviour of officers based in Charing Cross ,
Read moreChild sexual exploitation Inquiry misses opportunity to adequately tackle criminal justice failures
“Today’s report overall represents a huge missed opportunity. There is a lack of hard-hitting recommendations which will result in real change. This crime will continue as long as perpetrators think they can get away with it which – in the current system – they do, due to the appallingly low number of effective criminal investigations or prosecutions.”
Read moreJust how many ‘bad apples’ are within our police forces?
We've tried to avoid litigation but we have been left with no choice.
If we lose we will have to pay the Home Secretary’s legal fees, which as a charity we can't afford to do. But we also feel we can't let this missed opportunity go unchallenged.
Read moreDon't forget to respond to the government’s Victims’ Bill consultation!
We would like to encourage everyone with expertise of the victims’ experience of the criminal justice system (be it professionally or personally) to put in a submission to this consultation, however short, and make your voice heard.
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