Your correspondents call on the director of public prosecutions to “affirm [her] commitment to eliminating intimate violence against human beings of any gender” and criticise the Crown Prosecution Service’s presentation of statistics in its annual violence against women and girls report for being so explicitly gendered (Letters, 2 July).
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
Southall Black Sisters (SBS) and the End Violence against Women (EVAW) Coalition are holding a series of free consultation seminars to develop a UK-wide strategy on violence against (BME) women and girls.
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