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CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed a reprieve for a threatened rape crisis centre — but warn tonight there are “serious questions” to answer over women’s support services “stretched to breaking point.”
Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis had previously announced it would have to close its nine-month waiting list to new applicants, after BBC Children in Need withdrew funding from the project.
Centre Manager Isabelle Kerr said the grants body had outlined in a phone call that funding was withdrawn because the centre did “not do enough for male survivors.”
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
Legal frameworks designed to safeguard women are too often weaponised against them, reinforcing male power and entrenching injustice. The FiLiA Ending MVAWG Team highlight some of the issues
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland