Our new strategy is here. 💜 Our plan to strengthen the movement to end violence against Black and minoritised women and girls. 👇🏾 Linked below.

We welcome changes made in the Government’s response to the Supported Housing Consultation - including the exemption of refuges, reduced licensing burdens, and clearer wording around local connection tests. ⏸️ But more must be done. 🔗: Read our full statement: bit.ly/4apYKAv 1/5

Our statement in light of the police findings published by @theguardian.com which reveals that 1 in 5 people arrested during the 2024 riots haven been reported for domestic abuse👇🏽 📣 @sbsisters.bsky.social @evawuk.bsky.social @lawrsuk.bsky.social @asylummatters.bsky.social @4refugeewomen.bsky.social

📣 It is essential that the voices of Black and minoritised survivors, and the specialist services supporting them, are centred in conversations about mental health, VAWG and systemic harm👇🏾🧵 🔗 Read Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy?: bit.ly/3CLh5Kh 🔗 Read the supporting Survivors’ Charter: bit.ly/4i2Atm7

📣 This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we want to remind policymakers that survivors’ mental health cannot remain out of sight and out of mind. Black and minoritised women facing abuse are too often excluded from adequate mental health support by racism, poverty and systemic inequality. 🧵 1/4

1/ Pathways of Hope, an Imkaan-led research partnership, welcomes the gov's National Plan to End Homelessness- and its focus on prevention, local authority responses & its recognition that domestic abuse is a significant driver of homelessness. But recognition alone is not enough. 🆕: bit.ly/48OJex8

What actually keeps us safe? ❇️ New research published today by the @runnymedetrust.bsky.social shows that over half of the public believes investing in social and public services would do more to prevent crime than increasing police numbers or powers 🧵👇🏽 1/5 🔗: lnkd.in/eZ3hvvnt

❌ BBC's claims on MVDAC-DVILR misuse do not reflect frontline reality. Victim-survivors face disbelief, delays and barriers to safety. Misuse is the exception, not the norm. With 92 organisations, we reject this framing & call for evidence-led debate rooted in lived experience. bit.ly/4tXa3Y9

🆕: Not In Our Name - A Practical Guide to Talking About the Weaponisation of VAWG 🔗: bit.ly/4ctlOOT - Misinformation runs rampant on social media platforms, exacerbated by people that use it for their own political gain. Sadly, this has also touched the topic of violence against women and girls.🧵

This weekend, Imkaan marched alongside half a million people in London at the Together Alliance march against the far right. A powerful show of collective resistance, described by organisers as one of the biggest multicultural demonstrations in UK history.

✨ The UN General Assembly has taken a significant step in formally recognising the transatlantic slave trade and slavery as ‘crimes against humanity’. A moment that speaks to truth, accountability, and the long-overdue recognition of historical injustice. 📹: youtu.be/eY31hf9v1VA

Ghana pushes for slave trade to be recognised as crime against humanity

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🆕: Today, Imkaan is launching ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’ - a new campaign and research release, highlighting how Black and minoritised women are being left out of specialist mental health support. 📑🔗: bit.ly/4bF54ni Here’s what this launch includes👇🏾

Yesterday in the UK Parliament, Jess Phillips read aloud the names of women killed by men over the past year. It is always difficult to listen to. Each name represents a life taken, a family grieving, and a reminder of the devastating scale of male violence against women and girls. 🤍 🧵 🔗 👇🏽

We spent the weekend marching and standing in solidarity at the Million Women Rise march in London - joining a powerful movement calling for justice, equality, and an end to violence against women and girls. 🤍 #InternationalWomensDay 🧵 / 📸 👇🏽

We mourn the assassination of Iraqi feminist leader & human rights defender Yanar Mohammed. 🤍 We stand in solidarity w. her family, colleagues & those continuing the struggle for women’s rights & safety, incl. our members supporting Middle Eastern women & communities. www.kmewo.com/news/kmewo-m...

KMEWO Mourns the Assassination of Comrade Yanar Mohammed - Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women's Organisation

Statement of Yanar’ s Mohammed Assassination It is with great sorrow to be informed about Comrade Yanar’s Mohammed assassination on Monday 2nd of March 2026 at 9 a.m. by two gun men outside her house ...

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Encouraging to be at @10downingstreetbot.bsky.social w. women from across sectors, working to advance women’s rights. A good opportunity to connect, strengthen relationships & make sure our work to end violence against Black & minoritised women is visible where policy & funding decisions are made.

🆕📗 1/ Imkaan has published our response to ‘Freedom from violence and abuse: a cross-government strategy to build a safer society for women and girls’. We welcome parts of the Strategy, and we set out serious concerns about what’s missing. Read our analysis: www.imkaan.org.uk/government-v... 🧵👇

2026’s already moving. But we don't want the work of 2025 to simply fade out. ➡️ 'Our Work, Our Impact: Imkaan’s 2025 Year In Review.' Read what we put on record and pushed forward across evidence, Parliament, campaigns, movement-building and frontline solidarity. 📄 bit.ly/3NPS0Dq 🧵..

Hello Bluesky 👋 We’re Imkaan - a UK-based ‘by and for’ Black and minoritised VAWG organisation. Happy to be here: reconnecting, listening, and sharing our work. Follow for updates, news, statements and resources. Glad to have you with us 🤎