Women’s Safety

If you keep teaching young men that they’re exceptional and that women are playthings, then yes – this is how they will behave

Natasha Walter’s Feminism for a World on Fire has convinced me to leave my lane - it’s the most vital book of the year

Reform, Tommy Robinson and the masked thugs protesting at UK ports all say they are defending British women. But it’s a complete lie

It’s not the crimes themselves - it’s a way to confront the possibility that it could happen to us

Meta has got a bit of a PR problem with its new product. Not only are Zuckerberg’s new glasses creepy, they’re also not very good

There are many ways in which women are ‘kept’, sometimes by men, sometimes by members of their own family. But that has never worked for me.

If you thought the rape of Gisèle Pelicot was a unique story, you were wrong

The Metropolitan Police claims to have changed, but its reforms fail to address its systemic issues. Five years after Sarah’s murder, I still do not trust them

The effects of lawless law enforcement have been seen to horrific effect in Minnesota. It mustn’t happen in the UK

Sophie Sandberg, gender justice activist and founder of CatCalls of NYC, is fighting back against street harassment – one piece of chalk at a time

The campaign means well - but male violence won't be solved by segregating us and making our lives smaller

When philosopher Manon Garcia went to the Gisèle Pelicot trial, what struck her most was the defendants’ sheer lack of remorse. If we can’t change this, she asks, can we live with men?

A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology

Victims of sexual assault are harmed twice: first by their abuser and then by the justice system. Recognising this is just the start

In a world reordered by Trump, The Handmaid’s Tale is now more relevant than Nineteen Eighty-Four

Watching Adolescence took me back 30 years to a school killing in Philadelphia – and the same old questions about boys and rage

According to the worrying results of a recent survey, six in 10 Gen Z men believe women’s equality has ‘gone too far’.

If you really want to know who cares about the victims of the grooming gangs, look at the people who actually try to help, rather than score points on social media

Could 2025 possibly be any worse?

Our 2024 Person of the Year has changed the rules, reversed the language and given women permission to reject shame

Over two years after her release, the former detainee on stolen time, hostage diplomacy and the lessons to be learned from her case

You Are Not Alone, a powerful new documentary, follows the horrific attack that gripped Spain

A year on from the fall of Afghanistan, one journalist’s terrifying return...

Turkey has followed through on a pledge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in March in withdrawing itself from an international treaty to prevent violence against women. May 11 marked the tenth anniversary of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention.  It created robust and legally […]

Survivors of sexual assault understand the crime’s trauma, its often numbing effect and the buried fear that never really leaves