Many survivors are asked to write a Victim Impact Statement - only for it never to be read in court.

Take the Stand is a survivor-led podcast giving those words the space they were denied.

If your statement was never heard, this is your space.

In 2010, Nina Cresswell reported a violent sexual assault to the police. Within hours, she was told it wasn’t a crime.

A decade later - after years of carrying the weight of that dismissal - she spoke out publicly to protect other women. The man she named sued her for defamation.

He dragged her through a three-year legal battle. And she won.

Fightback is a powerful short film examining how the criminal justice system treats women who have experienced serious, often prolonged abuse.

The film explores cases where women are serving life sentences after acting in circumstances shaped by violence, coercion and fear - yet their experiences are minimised or misunderstood once they enter the courtroom. Context is stripped away, trauma is reframed as intent, and survival is judged through legal frameworks that fail to reflect the reality of abuse.

The Domestic Abuse Commissioner is inviting people with lived experience of domestic abuse to take part in two survivor-led roundtables in Spring 2026.

These sessions are designed to give survivors a direct line to decision-makers - to share insight, challenge assumptions, and shape how systems respond.

When Issy Vine spoke up about wrongdoing while working as a 999 call handler for the Metropolitan Police, she did so believing the promises she had been told - that whistleblowers would be listened to, protected, and supported.

Instead, speaking out cost her almost everything.

A public petition is calling for a Government-led inquiry into sexual violence reported in NHS hospitals and other healthcare settings.

Reports suggest this is not a series of isolated incidents, but a nationwide issue affecting patients in spaces that should be safe. Survivors deserve accountability, transparency, and meaningful action - not silence.

Every March, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) brings together governments, campaigners, experts, and organisers from across the world to shape what comes next for women’s rights.

In March 2026, you can take part from wherever you are in the UK.

The Police Leadership Commission is inviting people across the country to share what matters to them about police leadership - and help shape the future of policing.

Set up by the College of Policing, with the support of the Home Office, the Commission is carrying out a wide-ranging review of police leadership to assess whether it is equipped to meet today’s challenges and public expectations.

On Saturday 7 March 2026, women will gather in Central London for the 19th Annual Million Women Rise March and Rally, held on International Women’s Day. A long-standing, women-led movement, Million Women Rise calls for an end to male violence against women and girls. This is an all-women event, rooted in solidarity and collective strength.

You don’t have to attend alone. Make Yourself Heard will coordinate a group and share a connection point nearer the time. Drop us a message to express interest.

A BBC investigation exposes something many women already know too well: technology is being used to replicate harm, faster and at scale.

A woman described feeling “dehumanised and reduced to a sexual stereotype” after Grok, the AI tool linked to Elon Musk and the platform X, was used to digitally remove her clothes without consent. Not because she shared anything sexual. Not because she agreed. But because the technology allowed it - and the platform failed to stop it.

In 2025, Open Justice For All changed the law. That sentence matters - but it doesn’t tell the whole story.

Behind the headline achievement sit hundreds of unanswered emails. Proposals rejected. Hostility toward those seeking transparency. And the familiar experience of reform being diluted once it edges closer to power.

Sisters Uncut: Open Meeting

Sisters Uncut are holding an open meeting on 11 January to honour the life of Sarah Reed and to organise around the urgent issues that continue to shape our justice landscape: anti-fascism, police brutality, and the failures within the domestic abuse sector.

Call for Participants: Galop’s Survivor Research Group

Galop is creating a new Survivor Research Group and is inviting LGBT+ survivors in England and Wales to register their interest. The group will meet online every three months to help shape Galop’s research - from co-designing ethical approaches to analysing data alongside their policy team.

Rape Crisis England & Wales has launched Living in Limbo, their new report exposing something survivors have been saying for years: the criminal justice system is retraumatising people long before a trial ever begins.

The law has failed a woman and her child - and now they’re fighting back

A six-year-old girl has been forced by a High Court ruling to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. He hasn’t seen her in years, has threatened to kill them both, and yet the court decided his name should define her “identity and heritage”.

The Solicitor General has confirmed that the CPS Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) pilot in the West Midlands will continue while its impact is evaluated, with victims and survivors directly contributing to how it evolves.

When families lose loved ones to fatal male violence, the least they deserve is justice. Yet for too many Black, minoritised, and migrant (BMM) women - and their families - justice remains out of reach.

On 31 October 2025, Killed Women launched INVISIBLE WOMEN, a groundbreaking campaign to confront systemic racism, neglect, and institutional failure across policing, justice, and support services.

Family-led and survivor-driven, the campaign demands accountability, visibility, and reform. It amplifies the voices of bereaved families who are standing together to say: enough.