Action Breaks Silence is an educational charity working in India, South Africa, and the UK. They offer two educational programmes: The Empowerment Programme for women and girls; and The Empathy Programme for boys. The programmes are designed to challenge stereotypes and raise awareness around sexual violence and have reached more than 47,000 young people since […]
Chlo Winfield – after having to push the police to take action in relation to the abuse that she had experienced as a young teenager, Chlo began to campaign around the domestic and sexual abuse of young women. She began with presentations to students and staff at her school, before setting up the campaigning organisation […]
Helen Steel is one of eight women who together brought a ground-breaking civil claim against the Metropolitan police for their abusive practice of enabling undercover police officers to form long term intimate relationships with the women they were spying on. Helen was pivotal in organising the claimants, waived her anonymity and gave press interviews in […]
Sara Rowbotham was a social worker in Rochdale who was one of the few to pick up on the organised sexual exploitation of young girls in the local area. After fighting for years to get other statutory services to pick up on this abuse Sara was forced to whistleblow, which bought serious consequences for her […]
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs has become the leading expert on financial abuse in the UK. She has been campaigning for greater awareness of this form of abuse for the last ten years and in early 2017 she launched Surviving Economic Abuse – the UK’s first dedicated organisation working on this issue. She is co-editing a book on […]
Linda Kirk used her own money to pilot a women’s centre in County Durham and it is now a thriving women’s community run, decorated, and financed (through a craft shop) by the women who use it. The centre has put out pamphlets about what they do for the local community and these have been used […]
Jessica Eaton conducts research and campaigns around victim blaming targeted at women and girls who have experienced sexual violence. She blogs at victimfocus.org.uk and is a PhD researcher in the forensic psychology in victim blaming. She runs open-access events on victim blaming, self-blame, and the revictimisation of women and has been commissioned to write the […]
