Updates
Great News!After a period of hiatus, Imkaan is moving forward. Growing stronger. Looking forward to stepping back into the spaces you need us to be in. Look out for our New Year’s Announcement!
Great News!
After a period of hiatus, Imkaan is moving forward. Growing stronger. Looking forward to stepping back into the spaces you need us to be in.
Look out for our New Year’s Announcement!
Listen to us! Communication Barriers: How statutory bodies are failing Black, Minoritised, Migrant, Deaf and Disabled Women & Girls Victims/Survivors of VAWG
The Communication Barriers Working Group is launching a new report. The report highlights how communication barriers negatively impact VAWG victims/survivors' experiences of safety and access to justice. The evidence provided by this work shows that victims/survivors with communication needs are more likely to be afraid to contact the police for fear of discrimination and violence.
A Participatory Evaluation of the Comic Relief Supporting and Sustaining Specialism Programme for the Black & Minoritised women-led by and for sector (2022-2023)
Imkaan conducted a participatory evaluation of Comic Relief’s Supporting and Sustaining Specialism Programme: a unique ring-fenced fund for specialist ending-VAWG B&M women-led by and for organisations supporting B&M women and girls.
Margin to Centre - Application Form
Imkaan has been funded by the Tampon Tax Fund to make onward grants to frontline Black and minoritised women and girls’ organisations committed to ending violence against women and girls (VAWG).
Women for Refugee and Women and Million Women Rise at the Refugees Welcome Rally
Prepping to support Imkaan member services and our sister organisations Women for Refugee and Women and Million Women Rise at the Refugees Welcome Rally organised by Women for Refugee Women
Upcoming Members Workshop on Black and minoritised children and young survivors
13th October 2021
If you’re an Imkaan member you can sign up for the first in a series of Imkaan workshops looking at the work that our member services are doing with Black and minoritised children and young survivors who continue …
Our Campaign against the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill
We continue to campaign against the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill which puts the lives of Black and minoritised women and girls at further risk.
“Levelling Up”: How do we regionally level up employment inequalities that Black and minoritised women face without investment in our sector?
As the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government adopts the title of Department of Levelling Up, we’ve been reflecting on critical services our national members provide regionally in areas that the government is ‘levelling up’. Imkaan’s member services know…
Executive Director Baljit Banga spoke at the 2021 international online WAVE Conference.
Imkaan’s Executive Director Baljit Banga spoke at the 2021 international online WAVE Conference ‘Breaking the cycle: preventing and tackling sexualised violence against women and children….
The Government must make a serious commitment to specialist Black and minoritised services in the Comprehensive Spending Review
Yesterday Imkaan submitted a letter signed by 33 of our Imkaan Member Services to the Government asking for a serious commitment to specialist Black and minoritised services in the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The Government must ‘level up’ the lives of Black and Minoritised Women.
Black and minoritised women’s employment has been stagnant for 30 years. Investing in specialist led by and for services creates more economic opportunities…
Anti-Racism Charter Desktop Launch
Today we supported the desktop launch of the Anti-Racism Charter for the VAWG sector. As part of the Anti-Racism Working Group Imkaan..
Our safety and our survival are not for sale. - Chaired by EVAW
Thankful to EVAW for the platform to speak about VAWG at the 2021 Labour Party Conference.
Our Response to the murder of Sabina Nessa
We are deeply saddened and upset about the murder of Sabina Nessa. Initially there was little media coverage or attention about her murder. The homicides/femicides of Black & minoritised women and girls must not continue to go unnoticed.
Women in Haiti : their struggle for autonomy and equality
The impact of Haiti’s earthquake will not be gender-neutral after two centuries of imperialism and economic exploitation, the lack of international response likewise is not ‘racially’ neutral.