28 March 2018
New Royal College of Midwives (RCM) guidance for midwives on supporting survivors of domestic abuse to vote safely is published today. The guidance will help midwives to support survivors of domestic abuse to remain anonymous on the electoral ...
04 October 2018
‘Midwives trained to recognise domestic abuse and support women, were sometimes not recognising that they themselves are victims of domestic abuse says RCM’
08 October 2018
The RCM has called for the NHS to do more to address staff experiencing domestic abuse in its new report Safe places? Workplace support for those experiencing domestic abuse.
02 December 2021
Polygamy is not something we see an awful lot of in Britain. The vast majority of the population marries just one person at a time. When we hear of people marrying more than once without getting divorced, its newsworthy because it’s rare … and illegal! ...
01 December 2021
When we think of a forced marriage, we often visualise a fragile female, chained and dragged behind a much older man towards the altar. Whilst this may be a helpful visualisation of the force, coercion and control involved, the reality that so ...
25 November 2020
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), have today issued a call to end the ‘scourge’ of domestic abuse in the UK, which affects a quarter of women and is more likely to begin and worsen ...
29 November 2021
Pregnancy is a time of heightened vulnerability to domestic abuse, not because it is necessarily more prevalent, but because it may start or become more severe antenatally.
26 November 2021
16 Days of Activism is an international campaign and yearly event, coordinated by the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership, which runs from 25 November until 10 December, culminating in International Human Rights Day. The 16 Days of Activism ...