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Useful information for those working to end violence against women and girls.

• Invitation to tender: AVA is seeking to appoint an experienced evaluator (24 June)

  AVA, London

• My Dangerous Loverboy - Forum for victims of child sexual abuse

  Eyes Open Creative

• Report: "Basically... porn is everywhere"

  A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the Effects that Access and Exposure to Pornography has on Children and Young People, Children's Commissioner for England

• ASCENT - New free legal helpline for women and advisors in London

  Rights of Women, London

• LGBT Survey: Roar: Because silence is deadly (25 August)

  Stonewall Housing

• Guidance: Identifying and Supporting Victims of Human Trafficking - Guidance for Health Staff

  Department of Health (2013)

• Rape: A Lack of Conviction Infographic

  Information is Beautiful

• Publication: Youth4Youth Training Manual

  The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies

• Report: Deeds or Words? Analysis of Westminster Government action to prevent violence against women and girls

  End Violence Against Women Coalition

• Report: Women's Equality in the UK; A health check

  CEDAW

• Report: A need to belong; What leads girls to join gangs

  Centre for Mental Health report which explores what leads girls to join gangs

• Strategic Priorities for Female Offenders

  Ministry of Justice

• Research Study: Survivors of Rape and Serious Sexual Assult: the Effect on Memory over Time

  University College London

• Report: “Because They Know They Can Get Away With It” - Young People’s Experiences of Street Harassment in Edinburgh

  Hollaback! Edinburgh (2013)

• Report: The rape and sexual assault of men – a review of the literature

  Survivors UK (2013)

• Donations: TRUST Clothes Bank

  Help to provide opportunities for vulnerable women by building a bank of essential clothes

• Petition: Somalia - No authority to rape

  The UN reports hundreds of cases of rape each month, many committed by government forces

• Corston Report 5 Years On: What Progress Has Been Made asks Women in Prison

  To mark the 5th anniversary of the Corston Report on women in the criminal justice system Women in Prison has produced a short traffic light report measuring progress to date

• Research Project on Young People and Sexual Consent: Give and Get

  London Metropolitan University

• Report: When Maternity Doesn't Matter? Dispersing pregnant women seeking asylum

  Refugee Council and Maternity Action

• Rebuilding Shattered Lives: women, homelessness and the criminal justice system

  St Mungos

• Survey on what interventions there are across the UK for people using intimate partner violence

  Respect, London

• Petition: Please write to your MP to help ensure vital community justice services for women

  Prison Reform Trust

• London Mayor's of London VAWG Strategy The Way Forward

  Guidance for local boroughs on how to adopt a VAWG approach has been produced and is now available on the MOPAC website.

• Campaign: Talking about T in FeminisT this International Women's Day

  LGBT Domestic Abuse Project, Scottish Women’s Aid, the Scottish Transgender Alliance and Engender

• Campaign: Violence Against Women Thrives In a Culture of Denial and Silence

  Amina MWRC unites Scottish Muslim community and friends to oppose all forms of violence and abuse against women and girls

• Campaign for better Sex and Relationship Education in Schools

  One Billion Women Rising

• Guide: Better Health For Women - How to incorporate women's health needs into Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies

  Women's Health and Equality Consortium (2013)

• Report: The State of the Estate

  Women in Prison’s report on the women’s custodial estate

• Video: Human rights drama: ‘Bringing rights home!’

  Play raising awareness of human rights in the UK

• Report: An overview of sexual offending in England and Wales

  Joint statistical bulletin published by Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Office for National Statistics (2013)

• Press release: Rape Crisis responds to the Giving Victims a Voice report

  Shocking and distressing as the revelations are, we’re pleased that this case has highlighted the vast numbers of adult survivors living with the long-term impacts of childhood sexual abuse throughout the UK

• Briefing: Domestic Abuse - Stonewall Health Briefing

  Briefing on domestic abuse experienced by LGB people

• Report: Rape Crisis Scotland Annual Report for 2012

  This contains the most detailed statistical information ever published by us on the nature and extent sexual violence experienced by survivors contacting rape crisis centres in Scotland.

• Press release: Poorest mothers hit hardest by 1% cap on up-rating working age benefits

  Womensgrid reports on the UK Womens Budget Group's release analysis by Howard Reed

• Helpline: Support After Rape & Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL)

  SARSVL now provides support to women and girls by text and email as well as telephone and has increased and varied the helpline opening hours

• Report: Children first - the child protection system in England

  Education Committee

• Reports: Women and the Criminal Justice System

  Ministry of Justice

• Findings and Recommendations from Interim Case Study: The impact of austerity measures upon women in the North East of England

  CEDAW, NEWomen's Network, The Women's Resource Centre (2012)

• Report concerning the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings by the United Kingdom

  GRETA (2012)

• Video: A Dangerous Journey

  Part of "The Need to Know Campaign" - Exposing Global Practices That Harm Women

• Pocket Guides: The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) guides for social workers on alcohol and substance misuse

  There are four new guides in the series aimed at social workers who specialise in adults and childrens services but who do not specialise in substance use

• Interim report: “I thought I was the only one. The only one in the world” - Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation In Gangs and Groups

  The Office of the Children’s Commissioner (2012)

• Petition: Make personalised NHS budgets for talking therapies available to victims of sexual abuse

  Currently, when you are assessed by your GP as being a victim of sexual abuse, you are put on a waiting list. Most patients are on that waiting list for months before they get to see a therapist or counsellor. That is not acceptable.

• Young People’s Advocacy Service

  Women and Girls Network

• Report: Picking Up the Pieces

  Research report by Rights of Women and CWASU

• Book: From Violence to Safety and Freedom

  Newham Asian Women's Project (2012)

• Report: Sexual Violence Services - International Overview

  Department of Health (2012)