We’ve said it before: the dangerous new contract Jeremy Hunt is imposing on junior doctors means survivors of domestic violence will find it harder to access life saving mental and physical healthcare. Fewer doctors with less training and less time means more signs of abuse will be missed and survivors will have even fewer opportunities […]
Content note: sexual violence, police violence, death of a child Let’s get something straight – violence against women is not only perpetrated by intimate partners and family members. It is also enacted by individuals, institutions and structures that prevent us from living safely and securely, with a personal, family and social life. We cannot fight […]
Closing libraries has been one of the most unpopular cuts to public services. In 2012, the closure of Kensal Rise Library was so contentious that the council hired a private company to strip the building of books in the dead of night, an act of shocking bad faith to defeat the huge campaign (backed by […]
Guest post by No Borders Women and Non Binary Folk On Monday, the Home Office Enforcement Team, working alongside Police Scotland, raided the house of a mother and her young son. They were assaulted and forcibly removed from their home. Beverley Vaanda Kanjii is a Namibian woman who has lived in Glasgow, with her 14 […]
Print your own posters below! Yesterday, ahead of George Osborne’s Budget announcement, these posters appeared all over London. George Osborn is STILL WANTED. Yesterday he failed to deliver a long term economic plan for women’s safety. By promising not to ring-fence any area of local government funding, Osborne ensured that funding for domestic violence services […]
Yesterday morning, Sisters Uncut took our message right to the front door of George Osborne at the Treasury. In Osborne’s Britain, a woman’s safety depends on her postcode. Specialist domestic violence services are funded by local councils, whose budgets have now been halved by Osborne. Vital services and the women they support face a precarious […]