The Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize has reached its 25th year and nominations are now open for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize and Centre for Women’s Justice Award! The closing date for nominations is Friday 12 January 2024. We all know many incredible women who deserve recognition for the work they do to end violence against women and […]
Thank you to all those who sent in nominations this year. We were overwhelmed with fantastic candidates and it was a struggle to draw up a shortlist – which may explain why our shortlist is 9 nominees long! You can now read all about our shortlisted nominees for this year’s awards here! Join us in […]
Nominations are now open for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize and Centre for Women’s Justice Award 2022! The closing date for nominations is Friday 16th September. We all know many incredible women who deserve recognition for the work they do to end violence against women and girls. Please take time to nominate an amazing woman or […]
For years, Freya has used her own experiences to campaign on the issue of police failures to properly hold their own officers to account for domestic abuse. As well as raising awareness through social media, she has worked with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Centre for Women’s Justice to draw attention to how […]
In 2020, Emily won a lengthy and hard-fought battle to have the Crown Prosecution Service take seriously the abuse that she had been subjected to. In 2015 the CPS decided to take no further action in relation to an allegation of rape that Emily had brought to them. Eventually, they made her aware that the […]
Sophie is the author of Breakfast at Bronzefield, a memoir about her time in prison. The book shines a light on discrimination against women in the Criminal Justice System. She has also written for a number of journals and other publications. Her writing challenges the stereotyping of criminalised women and shows how they are impacted by classism, sexism […]
A special prize was awarded to Diana Russell, the feminist scholar and academic, who died this year at the age of 81. Diana devoted her life to the fight against male violence against women and was best known for her work on femicide. You can read Julie Bindel’s obituary of her here.
As a Cambridge City councillor between 2014 and 2018, Ann was lead councillor on domestic abuse and sexual violence and founded the Cambridge Community Forum on Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence. In 2018 she resigned from Cambridge City Council over their refusal to withdraw misleading guidance on exemptions under the Equality Act 2010. She set […]
Rosie is the Deputy Director of the Angelou Centre and manages the organisation’s services for Black women and girl survivors. She has been involved in social justice activism and arts organising for more than 25 years. Through the Angelou Centre, Rosie has contributed to important research projects like the 2017 ‘Unequal Regard, Unequal Protection’ which […]
H.O.P.E. was founded by Meena Kumari in 2008 to provide consultancy and training on violence against women. The group has played an important role in co-ordinating a specifically black, Asian and minority ethnic women-focused response to the increase in domestic violence during the lockdown. The regular meetings they host over zoom are attended by numerous […]
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