1st February 2025

Project Resist continued our Specialist Advocacy Training sessions with the incredible women from Ubuntu Women Shelter ( a migrant led women’s organisation based in Glasgow). The training was intense and joyous, we learnt so much from this powerful group of women. We have now delivered this training to 8 organisations and over 70 frontline black and minoritised staff and volunteers to strengthen frontline specialist intersectional grassroots advocacy. We have many more sessions planned over the next year. Watch this space!

10th February 2025

Project Resist, One Law for All and the International Bar Association have come together to mark International Women's Day on 6 March by convening a public meeting on the unconscionable practice of gender apartheid in countries such as Afghanistan and Iran and to demand that it be codified in international law as a crime against humanity.  

See the press release for the event on our blog.

 See here for more details and to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-apartheid-a-crime-against-humanity-tickets-1234146167409

 Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. 

6th January 2025

Project Resist has made a submission to the Independent Sentencing Review. (January 2025) on black and minority women’s experiences of sentencing in the criminal justice system.     

We are also signatories to an open letter calling for an end to the punishment of women who are survivors of domestic abuse. See Women in Prison — Stop Punishing Domestic Abuse Survivors.

26th November 2024

In November Project Resist began our Resist Network specialist Advance Advocacy training with over 30 frontline advocates from 4 of the Resist Network organisations based in the North West of England. The training is grounded in rights based principles and aims to strengthen the work of specialist black and minoritised frontline organisations that are working in an increasingly hostile environment. More training will be delivered throughout early 2025, with further information to follow.

16th October 2024

Pragna Patel will be speaking at the National Black Crown Prosecution Association (NBCPA) conference in Birmingham and running a workshop exploring the experiences of black and minority women in the criminal justice system within the context of violence against women and girls.

14th October 2024

Pragna Patel will be speaking at P.H.O.E.B.E Centre's first annual Gender Justice & Intersectional Practice Conference Friday, November 29. The in person confeerence will take place during 16 Days of Activism for Gender-Based Violence along with sector leaders Naana Otoo–Oyortey MBE (FORWARD) and Wanjiku Mbugua – Ngotho, (BAWSO) and others. You can book your place here.

9th October 2024

Pragna Patel will be the Keynote Speaker at the Faith to Faithless Conference in London. The conference will examine abusive behaviours such as domestic violence and coercive control through to so-called ‘honour-based’ violence, which can include sexual violence and attempted murder.

As contributors to Feminist Dissent Project Resist supported this joint statement; standing in solidarity with the people of Gaza and against fundamentalism. You can read the statement here, and the statement is also featured as part of Project Resist's blog. You can read more about Project Resist and Feminist Dissent here.

31st May 2024

Read Pragna Patel’s article for the Guardian defending the rights of women and drawing attention to wave of religious fundamentalism targeting the rights and freedoms of women. You can also find more information about Project Resist’s ongoing work on Fundamentalism and women's rights on our Campaigns and Projects page.

8th June 2024

Rosie Lewis will be speaking at the Women's Resource Centre annual 2024 "Currency of Change" conference in Manchester on the Economic Justice Panel. The panel's key themes will relate to women’s economic empowerment – at personal, community and organisational levels. Focusing on economic justice in terms of fairness and equality for all, the panel will discuss the unequal distribution of wealth and the many economic disparities that women experience.

24th.June 2024

Pragna Patel spoke to an audience of funders and family court strategists about the issues experienced by black and minoritised women and children in the family courts. Both Project Resist and the Resist Network have raised our ongoing concerns about these matters in our recent submissions to Grevio and UN VAWG Rapporteur consultations.

26th June

Rosie Lewis will be delivering a workshop at the national Rosa Fund Conference for grassroots women's organisations across the UK. Rosie will be supporting sector organisations to increase their fundraising confidence and resilience. You can book a place here.

29th June 2024

Pragna Patel co-authored this article on the recent important Michaela School ruling with other members of Feminist Dissent, which you can read fully on the Project Resist blog or here.

27th June 2024

Pragna Patel will be speaking about violence against BME women alongside Womens Resource Centre, Refuge and Surviving Economic Abuse and other organisations- at the Westminister Insights conference in Manchester. Pragna will be focusing on the causes and consequences of VAWG.

5th July 2024

Project Resist has a featured article on the FiLiA website, mapping the concerns and issues faced by BME led grassroots organisations and groups. Project Resist is currently working in partnership with FiliA as part of their ongoing Legacy Project to develop policy that centres black and minortised women and girls.

28th June 2024

Pragna Patel spoke at a conference on the state’s controversial immigration law and policy: “Contesting The Hostile Environment” organised by Social Scientists Against The Hostile Environment. Taking part in a concluding discussion on the way forward, she focused on the importance of legal challenges and political organising as a way to counter the despair and injustice created by the anti-immigration agenda pursued by successive governments. https://ssahe.net/

1st July 2024

Project Resist and the Resist Network submitted a 16 page response to the DHR statutory guidance review, to raise serious concerns about the the ways that Reviews are currently conducted. Working collaboratively, this forms part of Project Resist's ongoing strategic VAWG policy development.

7th July 2024

On 10 July, Pragna Patel contributed to a panel discussion following the publication of Susanna Rustin’s book, Sexed: A History of British Feminism.She took part in a rich and stimulating discussion about the connections between the current struggle over women's sex-based rights and those conducted by pioneering women of the past.

6th August 2024

Project Resist has been involved in regional responses to the recent wave of racist far right violence. As members of Feminist Dissent, we have contributed to Feminist Dissent's recent call for solidarity in the wake of the riots and the weaponisation of VAWG. Read about this here. Project Resist is working with led by and for organisations regionally to address these ongoing concerns. More to follow.

16th August 2024

On Friday 16 August, Pragna Patel spoke at an ‘in conversation’ event to mark South Asian Heritage Month hosted by the National Black Crown Prosecution Association. Entitled ‘Free to Be Me’, she spoke about her journey as an activist over the last 40 years in support of black and minority women rights across the UK. She referred to a range of milestone cases and campaigns for equality and justice that she has been involved in, highlighting in particular the failure of state and community organisations to protect and deliver justice to some of the most marginalised and vulnerable women and girls. 

8th November 2024

Project Resist joined other women in protest against the brutality of the fundamentalist Iranian regime organised in London by One Law For All and FEMEN. We stood in solidarity with Ahoo Darhyae and the women of Iran. Ahoo Darhyae is the latest in a long line of women beaten and arrested by the Iranian police for dissenting against the imposition of the hijab. We stand against the daily assaults, denigration and torture of women that is taking place and endorsed by fundamentalist power not just in Iran but worldwide See short blog piece here.

31st January 2025

Project Resist is currently working in collaboration with the Angelou Centre and Resist Network on a submission to the Women and Equalities Committee’s 2025 new inquiry into community cohesion. In this submission we will document the egregious impact of the far-right riots on black and minoritised women and girls and the organisations that support them. There has been a muting of the voices of black and minoritised women and girls in relation to the riots and the ongoing racialised violence and exclusion that women and children continue to experience. More to follow soon.

13th February 2025

Pragna Patel will be participating as a guest at the Resilient Democracy Conference that is being organised by Unlocking Democracy 21st and 22nd February. Project Resist consider the expansion of all women’s democratic rights in civic life to be a key pillar of our work. Unlock Democracy is a not for profit organisation which campaigns for greater transparency and accountability of the government in relation to a range of democratic mechanisms and needed reforms.

21st February 2025

Project Resist is working in collaboration with the Girlington Centre in Bradford to support black and minority women who continue to encounter prejudices and obstacles when reporting domestic abuse and coercive control to the police. Yet again, we see systemic misconduct and incompetence in the police handling of such cases. Our work with Shareen and the Girlington Centre forms part of our advocacy work to improve women's access to justice.

You can find the full press release here.

26th February 2025

From March 2025, Project Resist will create space to amplify the political voice of sister activists and organisations working to end gender-based violence, racism, and other forms of oppression as well as campaigning for access to rights and justice. We will welcome guest bloggers who wish to share some of their key campaigns and insights on how to build solidarity and widen our commitment to building an equitable and diverse social justice movement that is rooted in anti-racist, anti-fundamentalist and feminist principles. We will be opening with a guest blog from Charlie Weinberg, an award winning political educator, international feminist activist and co-founder of the Women’s Liberation Alliance.

27th February 2025

Pragna Patel will be speaking at the Immigration Law Practitioners Association Conference 5th March 2025. The Current Issues in Immigration and Family Law Conference is an all-day conference bringing together experts from the worlds of immigration law and family law to discuss issues involving both sectors, as those fields so often overlap. We believe it is the first conference of its type that brings together the two disciplines.

Places are limited but can be booked here.