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work of local centres and campaigns to improve responses to rape. The RCS helpline, a free and confidential service offering initial support and information, is open every day from 6pm to 12 midnight. Police Scotland operates a referral system

for students. There are campaigns all across Scotland, and the rest of the UK, to promote awareness for all forms of sexual violence, but in this day and age, with young people being so heavily influenced by pop culture, I think music is a

to use our public awareness campaigns Not Ever and This Is Not An Invitation To Rape Me, and to respond to the many enquiries received about these, both directly and through the campaign websites. Together with the ROSEY Project, we carried out a

www.amnesty.org.uk/scotland campaigns Imagine A World … Amnesty Launches Postcard Booklet As part of Amnesty International’s Stop Violence Against Women Campaign in Scotland and to launch the Sixteen Days of Action (November 25 – December

assaulted short-lived media campaigns from knee-jerk me walked free from the courtroom, even with the political pressure; however these solutions are testimony of a previous victim, to the laughter and not enough. The voices of victims need to

I think though, in other campaigns in other areas such as public health, we have shown that we can do it. I think my priority here would be about awareness-raising, first of all. One of the things that causes these sorts of attitudes to fester

and public education campaigns that aim to put victims at the heart of the criminal justice system, there remains a startling “disconnect” between the ambitions of legislators and policy makers and the reality of a sexual assault trial

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young people, planning joint campaigns We also launched a student eLearning module so that for the 16 Days of Action Against Violence against institutions could reach students at scale with key Women and delivering training to a range of

developments of policies / campaigns, prevention work, working with tech world and good practice in supporting survivors. RCS hosted a Learning Disability awareness day for frontline workers in Perth, facilitated by People First Scotland (PFS),