.Sam Smethers brings a wealth of experience to Surviving Economic Abuse. Looking forward to seeing what the amazing SEA team goes on to do with her at the helm. Welcome aboard! 🚢 🌊

Review of the RSHE statutory guidance. Deadline 11th July. If you have kids or care for kids or like kids, respond! gov.uk/government/con…

📢SIGNUP LIVE! LEX Public Event with Prof Clare McGlynn KC (Hon)
on the 22nd of May! Open to ALL. Register at lexnetwork.org Please RT Professor Jill Marshall Dr Sharron A. FitzGerald🇨🇮🇪🇺🇩🇪 Dr Lynsey Mitchell Kelly Prince Dr Sorcha Mc Cormack Isabella Da Re Caoimhe Kiernan Cristina Monzer 1/3

⏳📢REMINDER! Signup for LEX Public with Prof Clare McGlynn KC (Hon) is still OPEN! Sign up via lexnetwork.org

Just learned Salman Rushdie is pronounced Sal-man not Sal-min. Which seems quite obvious now I know it but means I've said his name wrong for almost three decades.

🗓️25th June: Are your team confident in identifying and responding to concerns of child sexual abuse in school?

Our one-day online course for education settings enables DSLs to build the knowledge and confidence to act. Book now for just £110: eventbrite.co.uk/e/identifying-…

For anyone who missed the BBC Woman's Hour special on women's views on porn, it's now in a handy pod format! Have a listen while tidying your bedroom, cooking the tea, baking me cakes... bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

📢Peers voted in favour of the firewall yesterday

This is a massive win for Latin American Women's Rights Service - LAWRS’s campaign, backed by Domestic Abuse Commissioner, to prevent data sharing between police & Immigration Enforcement so migrant victim-survivors can report abuse w/o fear of deportation

MPs must follow suit

If you're angry about the ongoing slaughter of Australian women and children, please join one of the No More: National Rally Against Violence events across Australia on Friday, Saturday &/or Sunday (April 26-28).
The events are organised by What Were You Wearing (WWYW).
There

‼️ Together with 250 orgs, we have written to Rishi Sunak to express our outrage at the passage of the cruel Rwanda Bill.

The passage of the Bill puts the UK’s commitment to human rights into question and exposes vulnerable migrants to serious risk.

We continue to oppose it. ✊

So I spoke to colleagues at Respect about joining them as the new chair ..
#delighted to be part of their, and the #VAWG sector’s, work to end #domesticViolence 🙏🏽

🧵Here's why this matters - a lot: victims of rape and sexual assault consistently tell us that in the aftermath of assault, they need support. They need to be believed. They often want and need justice - through accountability for the perpetrator.

Five die in the Channel on the day the Rwanda bill passes....
Can we still imagine a world in which we recognise the humanity of those crossing borders? And put our energies into building caring communities rather than destroying people's lives?
We have to keep that hope alive.

🚨 CAMPAIGN WIN 🚨

After years of campaigning with our sisters Rape Crisis England & Wales, Centre for Women's Justice and Rights of Women, we're thrilled that the government is changing the law to help #KeepCounsellingConfidential and better protect rape survivors' right to privacy! 🧵

So this is interesting for anyone working in prevention. Michael Salter and Jess Hill on the problems with focusing too narrowly on changing gender norms as the the key to ending violence against women. Recommend a read jesshill.substack.com/p/rethinking-p…

The House of Lords will continue to debate the Victims and Prisoners Bill tomorrow.

We urge Peers to reject the two-tier discriminatory system that denies protection to migrant victim-survivors with NRPF and ensure the Bill includes support for them.

#SupportMigrantVictims

Another fun day in the world we live in

This is so powerful. Thank you for sharing Shaista Aziz 💙