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🚨 CAMPAIGN WIN! 🚨 Government will now require tech platforms to take down intimate images shared without consent within 48 hours. This welcome move to protect women and girls rightly places the responsibility on tech companies to stop abuse rather than profiting from it.

Placards that say 'stop image-based abuse!' Women shouting into megaphones

Today following months of campaigning by survivor Jodie, @evawuk.bsky.social, #NotYourPorn, @claremcglynn.bsky.social and @glamouruk.bsky.social, a new law comes into force criminalising deepfake abuse. This is a welcome and long-overdue step for survivors, but criminalisation alone is not enough.

Over the last 18 months, survivor and campaigner Jodie*, the End Violence Against Women Coalition, #NotYourPorn, Professor Clare McGlynn and Glamour UK have campaigned for action to stop deepfake abuse. Today, a new law comes into force making it illegal.

🤳“In terms of risk… content moderation belongs in the category of dangerous work, comparable to any lethal industry.” Content moderators experience vicarious trauma from extreme exposure to violence against women and child sexual abuse. This is a serious, under-recognised harm.

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)@jrct.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Solidarity with survivors and everyone feeling the weight of the appalling and distressing details in the ‘Epstein files’ being reported in the media.

Image of a woman with the words 'rape justice now' above her head and 'no one asked what he was wearing' written on her clothes

Campaign win for @evawuk.bsky.social! Through their #KeepCounsellingConfidential campaign, End Violence Against Women Coalition have actioned a change in the law to protect rape survivors’ therapy notes from being routinely accessed by police. [1/3]

EVAW Coalition@evawuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📣 We’re delighted that from today, police officers will no longer be able to routinely access rape survivors’ private counselling notes, after we changed the law to #KeepCounsellingConfidential

Campaign win! Following the success of our #KeepCounsellingConfidential campaign, from today police officers will no longer be able to routinely access survivors’ therapy notes.

While these features should never have been available to abuse, this win shows how survivors, campaigners and a show of strength from governments can force tech platforms to take action.

Elon Musk's X to block Grok from undressing images of real people

Grok will no longer allow users to remove clothing from images of real people in jurisdictions where it is illegal.

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EVAW Coalition@evawuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨CAMPAIGN WIN🚨 Banning the creation of non-consensual intimate images will be brought into force this week and will be made a priority offence in the online safety act. Deepfake abuse is a violation of our human rights and billion-dollar tech compaOfcommust be held accountable.

No one should have to worry about their photos being deepfaked. Tech companies must be held accountable for enabling and profiting from this abuse. Ofcom’s violence against women and girls guidance must be made a mandatory code of practice, with consequences for non-compliance.

One year ago today, the government announced it would make deepfake abuse an offence.

But this has still not in been brought into force.

While we wait: Grok (X’s AI bot) is nudifying women’s photos without their consent

96% of all deepfakes found online are pornographic, and 99.9% of these are of women

Deepfake abuse has a long-lasting, traumatic impact on victims. It is a violation of our rights and restricts our freedoms

Billion-dollar tech companies are enabling and profiting from this abuse. They must be held accountable.

Currently, tech platforms can choose whether or not to follow guidelines for tackling violence against women online.

This must be made mandatory, with consequences for those that don’t comply.

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End Violence Against Women

As 2025 comes to an end, we’re looking back on the many incredible things we’ve achieved together this year, despite huge challenges. Thank you for standing with us, speaking out and taking action to end violence against women and girls. We couldn’t do any of this without you!💥

📣 EVAW's Director to be next London Victims' Commissioner Andrea Simon, who has led our Coalition since 2021, has been appointed the next Victims Commissioner for London and will officially take up her post on 1st March 2026.

Andrea Simon announced as new victims' commissioner for London

The new commissioner takes up the role after five years as director of End Violence Against Women.

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Politicians should be educating the public on the reality that most violence against women and girls is perpetrated by someone known to the victim. Political rhetoric that weaponises violence against women to harm migrants is #NotInOurName

Badenoch accused of making ‘deeply inaccurate’ claims about violence against women

Tory leader says Labour should focus on migrants ‘from cultures that don’t respect women’ rather than tackling misogyny in schools

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🚨 After a week of announcements, the government's long-awaited VAWG strategy has finally been published. While there is much to welcome: a focus on prevention, the most cross-governmental approach seen yet, funding weaved into the strategy - there are some disappointments. 🧵

🚨 The government has today announced measures to strengthen relationships and sex education and better protect young people from misogyny and abuse. We welcome this focus on preventing violence against women and girls in today's long awaited VAWG strategy 🧵

Young people to receive relationships and sex education relevant to the digital age

The government has today published its much anticipated violence against women and girls strategy, following an ambitious manifesto commitment to halve this abuse within a decade.

This is a landmark moment, with measures to strengthen relationships and sex education in schools and prevent violence against women and girls.

It is really positive to see a much needed focus on prevention, and for relationships and sex education to be relevant to young people’s lives in the digital age.

But we must now see details of how this will be delivered, and funding that matches this ambition.

16-18 year olds experience the highest rates of domestic abuse of any age group. But currently, relationships and sex education is not mandatory for students up to 18 years.

We know this education gives young people the tools to have healthy and equal relationships, so we must urgently make sure all young people can access it.

Solidarity with @rapecrisis.bsky.social, Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre, Centre for Women’s Justice and @bindmans.com bringing this timely and important super-complaint as rape survivors face unprecedented and often multiple-year delays to their cases rapecrisis.org.uk/get-involved...

Investigation ongoing: A super-complaint regarding excessively lengthy police investigations into sexual offences.

In the last decade 37,188 sexual offence investigations have taken longer than three years to conclude.

More than half of these investigations have taken longer than four years; and many considerably longer.

This is a super complaint submitted by Rape Crisis England and Wales, Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre, Centre for Women’s Justice and Bindmans LLP

📣 This weekend, a series of announcements were made about the government’s plans to tackle violence against women and girls. But will they make a difference? Here's what we know so far 🧵

Newspaper headlines with text: what do this weekend's announcements mean for women and girls?

❤️‍🔥 What a night celebrating journalists and writers showing excellence in reporting on violence against women! 💫 Huge thanks to our judges Rosemary Douce @ipso.co.uk, Yvonne Roberts, @melissasigodo.bsky.social, Anita Rani and Jackie Long, and congratulations to our winners and shortlisted writers!

This #HumanRightsDay we’re part of 180+ organisations across the UK calling out recent rhetoric from government and demand better from the PM. We want leadership that strengthens rights, not weakens them – because dignity, fairness, and accountability matter. #16Days

Logos of the organisations supporting the British Institute of Human Rights letter

Yesterday Part 2 of the Angiolini Inquiry was published, examining how a serving police officer was able to abduct, rape and murder a woman, and what ongoing risk remains. 🧵

🚨CAMPAIGN WIN 🚨 Today the Government has announced they’ll restrict the use of victim’s ‘bad character’ evidence in rape cases.

Congratulations to the team at @metro.co.uk, winners of our Campaign of the Year award for ‘This Is Not Right’ campaign, which saw over 350 articles on VAWG published over the past year, centring survivors and marginalised women 💫

Metro wins prestigious award for groundbreaking violence against women campaign

The initiative 'had met its ambition to start a conversation about the national epidemic of violence against women’

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Our response to the #AutumnBudget: Welcome removal of two-child benefit cap, but investment in ending VAWG must be delivered with urgency ⤵️

Autumn Budget 2025: Investment in VAWG is urgent | End Violence Against Women

Autumn Budget 2025: EVAW welcomes the removal of two-child benefit cap, but warns that investment in ending VAWG must be delivered with urgency Yesterday (Wednesday 26th November 2025), the Chancellor...

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Sonia Sarkar @sonias26.bsky.social · 8mo ago

💫 What a night celebrating the journalists and writers showing excellence in reporting on violence against women! ✍️ Read about how their work is making a difference to collective attitudes and awareness - moving us towards accountability and prevention.

Winners announced: Write to End Violence Against Women Awards 2025 | End Violence Against Women

Last night (27th November 2025) the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) held its annual Write to End Violence Against Women Awards which recognise excellence in reporting on violence against ...

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I am just so thrilled to win this award -- this is not just an award for a piece of journalism but recognition of the violence against women in the name of "culture" --which is FGM. And this is happening at people's homes and in cosmetics clinics in different cities across the UK!

EVAW Coalition@evawuk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

✍️ BEST FEATURE Congratulations to Sonia Sarkar from Migrant Women Press, our winner for 2025! Read her piece here: migrantwomenpress.com/2024/12/03/f...

Best feature: Sonia Sarkar, Migrant Women Press. FGM in the UK: A common sexual assault on migrant women

❤️‍🔥We’re excited to announce the winners of our 2025 Write to End Violence Against Women Awards! ✍️These awards recognise excellence in reporting on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and the journalists helping move us closer to a future in which we are free from violence.

The Write to End Violence Against Women Awards: Winners

🎉 This year EVAW turns 20! To mark this milestone, we made a zine documenting our history and incredible achievements over two decades. Rooted in the rebellious, DIY spirit of protest, zines have a long history of being used as a tool for campaigning and inspiring change.

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the start of #16DaysOfActivism With digital violence this year's theme, we're pleased to see Ofcom's new guidance to protect women and girls online launch today, following our successful campaign 🧵

Illustration of three women protesting against online abuse