When news broke of women asylum seekers being sexually harassed by staff at Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre, we felt that women’s concerns around sexual violence and a racist immigration system converged in one issue
ActionAid will be marking the anniversary of the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh – Nirbhaya in solidarity with ActionAid India, who are co-organising a rally
On a freezing Saturday afternoon in March, Southall Broadway was momentarily brought to a halt as 150 women, children and men took to the streets, placards and banners in hand, to protest against the persistent violence women and girls face within our communities.
On the 16th December 2012, six men repeatedly raped a young woman on a bus in Delhi before dumping her and her friend on the roadside.
They came from near and far – from London, Surrey, Shropshire, Wales and Yorkshire. Some had travelled 200 miles to be there, emotions high, outside the Indian High Commission in London, on the eve of 7th January, in response to the horrific gang rape and murder of a young woman, 23 year old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh Pandey, on a bus in New Delhi.
We have all been shocked by the recent case of a young woman who was gang raped by a group of six men on a bus in Delhi.