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A “CATASTROPHIC” decline in rape prosecutions is allowing persistent predatory sex offenders to continue attacking women, the victims commissioner warned today.
In her annual report, Dame Vera Baird said that rape had effectively become decriminalised by the collapse in prosecutions, adding that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was doing nothing to address the problem.
She wrote that “we are failing to give justice to thousands of complainants.
ANNA FISHER explores what would it mean for women’s equality and public safety if Britain embraces full commercialisation of the sex trade
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