We’ll showcase highlights from 50 years of organising and what was won, and celebrate our archives going into the Bishopsgate Library. 

Women Against Rape is a grassroots multi-racial women’s group founded in 1976 and based at the Crossroads Women’s Centre in London. 

We provide rights information, support and advocacy. We take up individual cases on the basis of collective self-help. We campaign for justice, protection and compensation for all women and girls who have suffered sexual, domestic and/or racist violence. This includes survivors of any age, race and nationality, asylum seekers, women with disabilities, trans women, sex workers. 

We have won changes in the law such as making rape in marriage a crime. We have set legal precedents such as the first private prosecution for rape, after the authorities refused to bring a rapist of two sex workers to court. 

Mark with us five decades of pathbreaking antiracist work with survivors of rape, domestic violence and child abuse.

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