The Holly Project opened in Telford in August 2018 and is the first specialist peer CSE support service in the country. All of the Holly Workers have experience of CSE themselves. It was the brainchild of local survivor Holly Archer, who campaigned tirelessly for an independent inquiry into exploitation and trafficking in the town after […]
Zinthiya is the founder of the Zinthiya Trust, a Leicester-based charity supporting women to be free from abuse and poverty. During the national lockdown she raised awareness of the increased levels of violence against women that were particularly affecting Black and ethnic minority women, and women with insecure immigration statuses. She campaigned via local and […]
Coleen’s campaigning and leadership have emerged from her membership of a group for Church Survivors of Sexual Abuse and her work supports and stands up for those who have experienced sexual abuse within the context of institutional Christianity. Excluded from ordination for speaking out, and excommunicated from the Church for counter-protesting Catholic anti-abortion protests and […]
Action Breaks Silence is a community intervention group that delivers projects in schools to raise awareness of violence against women and empower young people to resist narratives about violence and gender roles. They currently run community-led programmes in the UK and South Africa and will be beginning a new project in India soon. They run […]
Please join us on 30th October at 6.30pm for the first ever virtual Emma Humphreys and Centre for Women’s Justice Awards. This is the second year in which EHMP and CWJ are working together to award two prizes to fantastic feminist campaigners: One for feminist campaigning, writing, or awareness raising against any aspect of violence […]
We are delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize and Centre for Women’s Justice Awards. We hope that many of you will join us for a virtual celebration of our fantastic nominees on 30th October. The event will be hosted by Samira Ahmed and you can register here for […]
Thank you to everyone who has submitted nominations for our 2020 prizes. Nominations are now closed. This is the second year in which we are collaborating with the Centre for Women’s Justice. We will award two prizes; one for a woman or group campaigning on violence against women and one for a woman or group using the law […]
We were delighted to have Picklejar Films at our 2019 event with the Centre for Women’s Justice – many thanks to them for these very moving short films showing the highlights of the evening:
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to making our 2019 awards so special. For the first time EHMP held the awards jointly with the Centre for Women’s Justice. The awards were chaired by Samira Ahmed. The Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize was given jointly to Afsana Lachaux and Maryam Namazie. The first ever Centre for Women’s […]
Lilly Lewis is a survivor and campaigner who has done her campaigning work over the last three years despite being incarcerated. After being sentenced to seven year’s imprisonment in 2016 she began to work with APPEAL’s Women’s Justice Initiative to use her story to campaign about the treatment of abused women by the criminal justice […]
Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize 