14 April 2026
Today, in collaboration with the End Violence Against Women coalition, Southall Black Sisters, Women for Refugee Women, the Latin American Women’s Rights Service, Imkaan, and Asylum Matters, we are launching “Not In Our Name” – a practical guide on how to talk about the weaponisation of violence against women and girls.
This guide equips people and organisations to challenge harmful disinformation and misinformation about VAWG. The tools in the guide have been created to support those having difficult conversations to refocus attention on the root causes of violence as well as the meaningful, evidence-based solutions needed to end it.
Our organisations have long campaigned against the weaponisation of VAWG, a tactic increasingly used to fuel anti-migration and racist agendas. Whilst this is not a new phenomenon, recent political and public discourse has seen this issue become more mainstream. From our expertise as a by and for organisation, we know that the consequences on our communities will be devastating. The conflation of migration with criminality is fracturing our communities and heightening risks for Black and minoritised migrant victim-survivors who already face significant barriers to fleeing violence.
The public cares about protecting the women and girls in their lives, and ending VAWG is a shared, collective responsibility. Recognising VAWG as a global crisis that impacts all our communities is essential to challenging racist scapegoating.
We encourage you to actively use this guide: share it with your networks, speak to friends and family and use it to challenge harmful narratives wherever you encounter them. Together we can shift the conversation and hold systems and individuals to account and make clear that attempts to divide us will not be accepted – NOT in our name.
For more information, contact Cat Linton, Policy Officer at cat@hibiscus.org.uk