Updates
Imkaan stand in solidarity with women and girls of Afghanistan
We stand in solidarity with the women and girls of Afghanistan and are reaching out via member services and specialist organisations. The UK Government continues to fail to meet its international obligations its exclusionary stance on migration and the …
The Government must ratify the Istananbul Convention
Imkaan are still asking the government why they are yet to ratify the Istanbul Convention which they signed in 2012. The delay can only be deliberate and strategic.
Our rejection of the equivocation of VAWG with ‘terrorism’
We’ve raised our concerns about Zoe Billingham’s recent media statements in relation to her report into the police response into VAWG. We fervently reject her equivocation of VAWG with ‘terrorism’ …
Our joint briefing on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill
We’ve submitted our joint briefing on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill with Rights of Women, LAWRS, Rape Crisis England, Wales, Working Chance, SBS and EVAW.
Centring the lived experiences of Black and Mixed-Race children and young Survivors
Looking forward to working with researcher Michaela Campbell who is centring her research around the lived experiences of Black and Mixed Race children and young survivors. We will be running a workshop in October for Imkaan members that will be the first in a series of workshops that focus on Black and minoritised children survivors.
Imkaan’s Response to the Women’s Health Consultation
In June we submitted our response to the Women’s Health Consultation, we talked to our member services who told us that Black and minoritised women have additional barriers in accessing adequate mental health support.
Our Concerns about the Online Harms Bill
We’ve joined a coalition of VAWG organisations, academics and digital activists to raise our concerns about the Online Harms Bill asking that the Government centre on prevention and safety listening to survivors and our sector.
Resisting the push of ‘carceral feminism’ across the VAWG Sector
Imkaan are resisting the push of ‘carceral feminism’ across the VAWG Sector which is centralising a failing criminal justice system, the profiling, policing and criminalisation of Black and minoritised women and girls and the communities they are from.
Members News : Upcoming Policy Focus Interviews
A call out to our member services, over the next 3 months we will be running Policy Focus interviews so that we can understand more about your policy needs and the impact of local, regional and national policy..
Our thoughts on the VAWG Strategy
Imkaan are incredibly concerned about the roll out of the recently released VAWG Strategy which fails to reflect the consultation submissions we and our member services submitted. Where is the commitment to specialist services? To intervention? To preventing the interlocking forms of violence that Black and minoritised women and girls experience
London Mayoral Hustings
EVAW, Imkaan and WRC are hosting a London Mayoral Hustings as an opportunity to discuss candidates’ policies on tackling VAWG in London.
New Report: The Decriminalisation of Rape
New report finds system collapse and calls for political intervention on juries, police and prosecutors.
