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Celebrating International Women’s Day: Access to justice must start with listening. Before we reform the law, we need to reform how we hear
By Enda Yuliana
Each year on 8 March, International Women’s Day challenges us not just to acknowledge inequality, but to dismantle the systems that sustain it and to stand with those whose rights are still denied.
This year, on 4 March, the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC) and the University of Strathclyde Law Clinic marked the occasion by organising a panel event that felt both timely and necessary. The theme was Gender-Based Violence as a Spectrum Issue, and the question at its heart was one we keep coming back to: How do everyday sexism, structural inequality and harmful norms connect to harassment, abuse and violence, and what does recognising that spectrum mean for law, health, advocacy and community responses?
Why the SWRC is leaving X and where you can find us
At the SWRC we have historically used X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook and LinkedIn to keep survivors updated about our services and resources, and to keep the legal and wider GBV community informed about training and development opportunities. But today we’re announcing that, as of December, we will no longer be using X.
“Today has given survivors back their voice’: Campaigners celebrate removal of not proven verdict
By Rape Crisis Scotland
On September 17th 2025, the Scottish Parliament voted through the landmark Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform Bill, which includes the removal of the not proven verdict.
Our work on Anti-SLAPPs in Scotland
By Annamaria De Felice & Laura Nairn
Yesterday the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC) took part in a roundtable discussion at the Scottish Parliament, organised by Index on Censorship, to help shape the future of anti-SLAPP protections in Scotland.
Celebrating a decade of the SWRC
On Tuesday 15th April, the SWRC celebrated our tenth anniversary with a special event at the University of Strathclyde, marking a decade of work supporting women survivors of gender-based violence in Scotland to access justice.
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