On Wednesday 30th October, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered the first Budget since the Labour government was elected in July. Just last week, in a joint letter to the editor, the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) and…
The Home Office has today (25th July 2023) announced the recipients of its £8.3million Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Fund. We are deeply disappointed that this fund has failed to ring-fence funding for lifesaving services led by…
The End Violence Against Women Coalition has collaborated with HOPE not hate, a leading organisation exposing and opposing far-right extremism, to produce guidance for challenging far-right weaponisation of gender-based violence. The guide offers practical advice on challenging online misinformation and…
Today (18th May 2023) the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has released its National Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategic Threat and Risk Assessment (STRA), aiming to support police forces to better understand what contributes to VAWG. In recent…
This week (16th May 2023), MPs debated the new Victims and Prisoners Bill at its Second Reading in Parliament. The long-awaited Bill promises to place the Victims’ Code on a statutory footing. However, the Bill remains pretty weak and unambitious,…
Leading women’s rights organisations have today (20th April 2023) launched a report exposing how public bodies, particularly the police, are failing to comply with their obligations under the Equality Act 2010 to eliminate discrimination, harassment, and victimisation when interacting with…
Today (21st March 2023), the final report from Baroness Casey’s independent review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service has found institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met Police, and recommends a complete…
As the World Cup kicks off in Qatar shortly before the start of the UN’s 16 Days of Activism to tackle gender-based violence, the End Violence Against Women Coalition has joined the Three Hijabis in urgently calling on football to…
Last week (20th October 2022), the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse released its final statutory report. The Inquiry was established by the then Home Secretary in March 2015, and this final report is the culmination of years of investigations,…
Update (27th October 2022): The latest statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a record number of rapes were recorded in the year to June 2022. 70,600 rapes were registered - up from 59,046 in 2019-20 and almost…