Press Releases.

In response to the the Taryn Baird court outcome Project Resist have released a statement. This verdict does not diminish the significance of our campaign and the wider struggle waged by families who seek justice in contexts where there is domestic abuse and coercive control. A very different outcome was seen in the case of Kimberly Milne whose abusive husband was convicted of homicide and sentenced to 8 years in prison after she took her own life. All such trials demonstrate that failure to prosecute in such cases has never been about the limitations of criminal law but about the lack of will on the part of the police andCPS to investigate domestic abuse related suicides.

Today Project Resist and FiLiA publish our Joint Statement on ‘Earned Settlement’. With support from feminists and grassroots women’s organisations we are opposing the government’s latest immigration proposals on settlement rights. If enacted, it will have a terrifying impact on the poorest and most vulnerable migrants, particularly women. It will create a hierarchical, two-tiered society made up of British citizens and non-citizens, with far-reaching consequences not just for migrants but for British society as a whole.

Project Resist and Rights of Women brought together VAWG organisations to examine how UKVI’s handling of counter-allegations is negatively impacting migrant women victim-survivors of domestic abuse applying for settlement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.