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What Do We Know About Prime Minister Burnham’s Approach to Tackling Violence Against Women?
What Do We Know About Prime Minister Burnham’s Approach to Tackling Violence Against Women?

The blog queries the Prime Minister’s approach to VAWG, saying we know only what he did as Mayor of Greater Manchester; he has been quiet on the subject since becoming leader. There are some promising indications from his time as Mayor but unless he gets two core issues right soon, there is little chance to make serious progress towards elimination: a realistic appreciation of how widespread is sexual violence in particular and proper follow through between domestic and international policy. The PM urgently needs to set out his thinking and his vision.

BlogMICHELLE KERWINViolence Against Women, Government Policy
Joint Statement from Project Resist and FiLiA on the Home Office Guidance for Asylum Seekers
Joint Statement from Project Resist and FiLiA on the Home Office Guidance for Asylum Seekers

Joint Statement from Project Resist and FiLiA on the Home Office Guidance for Asylum Seekers: it’s time for this Government to target widespread misogyny, tackle the crisis of violence against women and girls and stop scapegoating migrants. The purported aim of this questionable publication is to inform asylum seekers about UK law and so-called societal norms on gender equality and public respect. However, it serves to fuel the far right’s anti-immigration agenda, which has led to widespread violence and pogroms against migrants in recent years.

Statements, BlogMiz JakubovicGlobal, Government Policy, Anti-racism
The EHRC Code of Practice Has Finally Been Laid
The EHRC Code of Practice Has Finally Been Laid

This is a significant legal and political moment: the Minister for Women and Equalities has laid guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about how organisations should apply the law under the Equality Act 2010, more than a year after the landmark Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
Women can use this moment to organise, scrutinise and challenge institutions that continue to deny women their lawful single-sex spaces, services and associations.

StatementsMICHELLE KERWINGovernment Policy, Sex-Based Rights
Joint Statement from Project Resist and FiLiA on ‘Earned Settlement’
Joint Statement from Project Resist and FiLiA on ‘Earned Settlement’

Following our co-produced response (alongside LISG and women in the FiLiA Women's Assembly) to the Government's consultation on the 'Earned Settlement’ policy, Project Resist and FiLiA have released a joint statement calling on the Government to reconsider the policy in its entirety. If enacted, it will have a terrifying impact on the poorest and most vulnerable migrants, particularly women. The political direction of travel could not be clearer, and we must resist. Read the statement and join our call here.

StatementsMiz JakubovicGlobal, Government Policy, Anti-racism, Lesbian Rights
FiLiA’s Parliamentary Event – The Speeches
FiLiA’s Parliamentary Event – The Speeches

The FiLiA Campaigns and Policy team are pleased to have formally launched the FiLiA Women's Assembly (FWA) and our new report, Making Policy Work for Women, with an event in Parliament on Wednesday 19th November 2025. We are very grateful to Tonia Antoniazzi MP for being our Parliamentary sponsor for this event. She, Fran, a member of the FiLiA Women’s Assembly, and Kruti, FiLiA’s Director of Policy, all gave short speeches at the event and we are proud to share them here.

BlogFiLiAGovernment Policy
Letter in support of Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson
Letter in support of Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson

FiLiA warmly welcomes the Government’s choice of preferred candidate for the next Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson. As part of the process, she appeared in front of two Parliamentary committees and her performance was assured, knowledgeable, and principled. It is clear the Government made the right choice. We are extremely disappointed, therefore, to learn that the Committees are not endorsing Dr Stephenson. We have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities to express our support for Mary-Ann.

StatementsFiLiAGovernment Policy, Sex-Based Rights
Women respond to the Government's disability benefits reform consultation
Women respond to the Government's disability benefits reform consultation

The FiLiA Campaigns and Policy team have been working to support women to contribute to the Government’s consultation on disability benefits reform. We wrote to Parliamentarians who are also working to support disabled people to share our work and some of the responses we've had, and invite them to support and work with us to stand up for disabled women and carers who could be devastated by the proposed reforms.

StatementsFiLiADisability, Government Policy