YesMattersUK
@matters_yes
Community organisation est 2013. Advocacy, campaigning & consultancy on CSEA, VAWG, gender impact, class, pornography and PSHE.
Gemma has appeared on the #FiLiA #podcast numerous times, most recently #157, where we spoke to @gemma_brett about rape culture in schools: 🎙️podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/episod…
Gemma was driven to take action after her little sister, Sasha Marsden, was raped and murdered. Read Gemma’s powerful speech about Sasha at Feminism in London (FiL) 2015: 🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/20… #SheMatters #HerNameWasSashaMarsden
Gemma is a passionate public speaker in #MVAWG prevention, she works with CSE victims & is a consultant on gender stereotypes, #VAWG, sexual objectification, class & sexual exploitation. We are looking forward to welcoming @gemma_brett back to #FiLiA 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
Founder & Director of @matters_yes in 2013, Gemma has been fighting for the next generation, via youth work & education inc. #SEND children & YP, for over a decade. Gemma has contributed to FiLiA often, read her latest blog on the #welfarereformbill filia.org.uk/latest-news/20…
💥Saturday #FiLiA2025 speaker news! GEMMA AITCHISON, @gemma_brett working class radical #feminist, FiLiA volunteer & cake-lover 🧁who works primarily around gender stereotypes as the key to #MVAWG prevention, will be speaking at #FiLiA 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Brighton
🚨 “My daddy did this, and he did it on purpose.” Those were Jack’s final words after he and his brother Paul were murdered by their father—during a court-ordered visit. Right to Equality is proud to be featured in the From Harm to Healing White Paper. thewayfindersgroup.com/white-paper/
'10 years after coercive or controlling behaviour (CCB) became a crime, there is a wide disparity in how police forces in England and Wales recognise and understand the offence - with some logging rates that are three times higher per head of population.' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/……
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69% of rape victims withdraw from the justice process - it's hard to comprehend. Over 500 trials already listed for 2028. More than 65 for 2029. This isn’t just a backlog - it’s a justice system so broken, survivors are walking away in despair.
At today’s London Policing Board, the Commissioner and I discussed the impact of court backlogs on victims. New figures show an 11% rise in a year to nearly 77,000 cases. The system is failing too many. We urgently need the reforms soon to be recommended by Sir Brian Leveson.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about these numbers. 69% of rape victims withdraw from the justice process. Trials now listed for 2028 - even 2029. The scale of it is harrowing. Not just the delays, but what it says about how unbearable the system has become for so many. It…
69% of rape victims withdraw from the justice process - it's hard to comprehend. Over 500 trials already listed for 2028. More than 65 for 2029. This isn’t just a backlog - it’s a justice system so broken, survivors are walking away in despair.
Thank you @sarahjolney1 for speaking out on 'the #familycourt: Victims of #domesticabuse find the court perpetuating that abuse...Permitting ongoing contact with child abusers, disregarding reports where abuse is identified, use of unregulated experts and unregulated DAPPs'
📣 We were heartened to hear @sarahjolney1 raise critical concerns in Parliament about the ongoing harm faced by children and survivors of abuse in private family law proceedings.
Single mothers raise millions of children with love, strength and sacrifice yet they’re demonised in the media. In 2023, 85% of the UK’s 3.2 million single-parent families were led by mothers. Blame the men who walked away, not the women holding it all together. They’re heroines.
While 98% of rapists walk free, the UK government also emptied prisons of violent offenders recently. It sends a clear message to British women and girls.
Our judges are corrupted, our judiciary is broken, how the hell can we live like this without having to take the law into our own hands if this happens to our wives or daughters? @Keir_Starmer , @YvetteCooperMP , I suggest you look into this..
The family courts are failing survivors and children every day. By enforcing contact with an abusive parent, they are sentencing children to their deaths. Read Women's Aid's new report here: bit.ly/3TIwYGg
Child abuse has effectively been de-criminalized in the UK, if men say they are ‘stressed’ Hard not to see judicial collusion
DERBY: Married dad, James Taylor, 42, who added 120+ young schoolgirls on snapchat, sent them explicit videos with their faces superimposed onto them & caught with CSA, has walked free. Defence said he's a "loving, kind, hard-working man & was under a colossal amount of stress"
"We effectively now live in a society where rape is decriminalised.” Labour MP Bell Ribiero-Addy tells @vicderbyshire that she expects the Government to implement any recommendations from the Casey grooming gangs audit. #Newsnight