FiLiA

Sarah and Alice discuss the current Government consultation on pre-charge bail, and why a change in police practice is needed to protect victims-survivors of rape, domestic abuse and stalking.

Sarah Learmonth is a committed advocate for women and girls. She worked for 8 years as the Communications Officer for a Rape Crisis Centre and holds an MA in Woman and Child Abuse. Her dissertation study, which focused on the use of bail in rape cases, has been referenced by such institutions as HMICFRS, the Office of the Victims Commissioner and the College of Policing as well as the Centre for Women's Justice.

Sarah’s particular interest is feminist participative research, and she now works on a number of projects and campaigns tackling sexual violence across the women’s sector.

Sarah’s blogs and research

7 facts everyone should know about pre-charge bail

Your chance to respond to the Government’s pre-charge bail consultation

Study of bail use in rape cases

How to submit to the consultation

You can submit to the consultation here. You can find a response template at the bottom of Sarah’s article here.

Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She became Spokeswoman for FiLiA on 25 November 2019, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today, we are delighted to broadcast our first podcast with her.

Raquel specialises in ending male violence against girls and women. She is a featured writer at Dominican newspaper El Caribe and Spanish platform Tribuna Feminista. She was a contributor for Feminist Current and is the co-founder and editor of Women Talk Back! Her work has been translated into French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian and Korean.

As a campaigner, Raquel has worked for the National Organisation for Women and successfully championed the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in Oregon, United States. In the United Kingdom, apart from being our Spokeswoman, she has worked with feminist political campaigns Woman's Place UK and Fair Play for Women. As a researcher, Raquel is currently pursuing a PhD with the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol. Her MA and PhD work focuses on online communities of men who pay for sex.

You can read more about her work here:

www.raquelrosariosanchez.com

Or follow her on social media: 

facebook.com/8RosarioSanchez

twitter.com/8RosarioSanchez

instagram.com/8RosarioSanchez

Simi Kamal is head of grants at the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. She is a geographer, social development specialist, and women’s rights advocate with over 30 years’ experience in water sector, poverty alleviation, inclusive development, and gender equality. She is author or co-author of more than 400 papers, articles, book chapters, handbooks, and modules published and presented worldwide. Simi joins FiLiA to discuss her experience and work as part of the Every Woman Treaty - a campaign to end violence against women and girls worldwide.

Sign the Every Woman Treaty

Recording from the Violence Against Lesbians Panel at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. 

Featuring:

Susan Hawthorne - Unnoticed, Unrecorded, Unremembered: Inscribing the Torture of Lesbians  

Hilary McCollum - Voicing Violence Against Lesbians

Counsuelo Rivera Fuentes - My Experiences of Pain in Torture and Imprisonment in Dictatorial Chile

Angela C Wild - Lesbians at Ground Zero: Lesbians and the Cotton Ceiling

Recording from the Sunday Closing Session of the FiLiA 2019 Conference. Featuring a number of women speaking, including:

Sharena Lee Satti, author and passionate poet from Bradford, who speaks openly about her past and encourages others to find their voice through art and self-expression.

Megan Armitage, 19-year old university student and great-granddaughter of Bradford suffragette Lilian Armitage.

Dr Akima Thomas, Black feminist activist from a background in nursing, social work and psychotherapy. Founder and Clinical Director of Women and Girls Network which is a holistic therapeutic service working with women and girls surviving VAWG.