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How gambling and domestic abuse are plunging women into homelessness
Mercy Denedo, Liz Riley

How gambling and domestic abuse are plunging women into homelessness

Research has found that support systems for victim-survivors can fail to recognise gambling-related domestic abuse

The manosphere isn’t just an online issue. It’s fuelling domestic abuse
Emma Pickering and Meg Warren-Lister

The manosphere isn’t just an online issue. It’s fuelling domestic abuse

Did Louis Theroux’s documentary properly interrogate the manosphere? Emma Pickering and Meg Warren-Lister, of Refuge, write about the deep harm the ideology is causing to women and girls

‘Cruel’ government crackdown on migrant women could leave them facing violence alone
women

‘Cruel’ government crackdown on migrant women could leave them facing violence alone

The government’s proposed changes to settlement rules risk pushing migrant women, including survivors of abuse, into insecurity, writes Hibiscus’ Elizabeth Jiménez-Yánez

Why the internet needs to be safer for women
Leyla Buran and Professor Olga Jurasz

Why the internet needs to be safer for women

Can Labour’s new code help child victims of crime get justice?
Violence against women and girls

Can Labour’s new code help child victims of crime get justice?

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More and more women are being released from prison into homelessness. It’s an ongoing cruelty
Fraser Maclean

More and more women are being released from prison into homelessness. It’s an ongoing cruelty

Ending violence against women and girls needs action, not words, campaigners say
Domestic abuse

Ending violence against women and girls needs action, not words, campaigners say

I’m a survivor of female genital mutilation. We must get serious about ending this practice
Valerie Lolomari

I’m a survivor of female genital mutilation. We must get serious about ending this practice

The government’s plan to protect domestic abuse survivors has big gaps
Sue Harper

The government’s plan to protect domestic abuse survivors has big gaps

Young people to be taught about consent amid warnings ‘we cannot police our way out of crisis’
Violence against women and girls

Young people to be taught about consent amid warnings ‘we cannot police our way out of crisis’

I wore a burqa for a decade. The real danger to Muslim women isn’t the veil – it’s the politics
Hameeda Khan

I wore a burqa for a decade. The real danger to Muslim women isn’t the veil – it’s the politics

Judgement kills: Why we must end the stigma against women experiencing abuse
Rachael Clegg

Judgement kills: Why we must end the stigma against women experiencing abuse

The hidden homelessness crisis is fuelled by the scourge of domestic abuse
Maria Sookias

The hidden homelessness crisis is fuelled by the scourge of domestic abuse

I’m a survivor of domestic violence. Asylum hotel protests do not speak for me – or protect me
Domestic Violence

I’m a survivor of domestic violence. Asylum hotel protests do not speak for me – or protect me

Scapegoating asylum seekers is not the answer to violence against women and girls
Cat Linton

Scapegoating asylum seekers is not the answer to violence against women and girls

One year on from the riots: The real-world cost of anti-women and anti-refugee politics
Carenza Arnold

One year on from the riots: The real-world cost of anti-women and anti-refugee politics

The Traitors’ Ash Bibi on fleeing a violent home for a women’s refuge at 16: ‘There’s always hope’
Domestic violence

The Traitors’ Ash Bibi on fleeing a violent home for a women’s refuge at 16: ‘There’s always hope’

Compulsory domestic abuse lessons for over 16s could help ‘prevent misogynistic murders’, MPs told
Domestic abuse

Compulsory domestic abuse lessons for over 16s could help ‘prevent misogynistic murders’, MPs told

These domestic abuse survivors are learning how to cycle. It helps them find freedom and hope
Cycling

These domestic abuse survivors are learning how to cycle. It helps them find freedom and hope

No women should ever be sent to prison for enduring domestic abuse
Lucy Russell

No women should ever be sent to prison for enduring domestic abuse

Women are being sent to prison in UK for self-defence or being coerced: ‘I lost everything’
Criminal justice

Women are being sent to prison in UK for self-defence or being coerced: ‘I lost everything’

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‘It’s changed our life’: These modern slavery survivors are finding hope at Christmas through music
Modern slavery

‘It’s changed our life’: These modern slavery survivors are finding hope at Christmas through music

Men, it’s time to step up to help women feel safe in public spaces. Here’s how to do it
Tabitha Morton

Men, it’s time to step up to help women feel safe in public spaces. Here’s how to do it

Domestic abuse soars by 38% when England lose. This Euros, we need change
Teresa Parker

Domestic abuse soars by 38% when England lose. This Euros, we need change

It’s time for trans women to be given space to tell our stories in our own words
Laurie Ward

It’s time for trans women to be given space to tell our stories in our own words