Sexual violence

‘I am happy to accept further training is needed’: UCL ‘Report + Support’ and their self-admitted negligence

Rebekah Wright Content warning: discussions of sexual assault and rape All the people in this article have been given pseudonyms to protect anonymity. This includes the UCL ‘Report + Support’ caseworkers. If the pseudonyms overlap with the real names of other caseworkers at ‘Report + Support’ this is purely coincidental.  Earlier this year, The Cheese […]

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Case closed: A Testimony to the Failure of UCL ‘Report + Support’

Mads Brown and Zhenya Robinson Content warning: discussions of sexual assault and mental illness  [‘Report + Support’] doesn’t exist to help students. It exists to protect UCL from reputational damage. The caseworkers don’t need to decide whether or not I’ve been assaulted. They need to decide whether or not it’s a big enough deal. It’s

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Logo of the Zero Tolerance to Sexual Harassment scheme

“Zero Tolerance is just a marketing scheme”: Union hypocrisy fails sexual assault victims

“They make you run around in circles until you give up.” Imagine having a drink with a friend in Phineas. All around are posters and T-shirts advertising the Union’s ‘Zero Tolerance to Sexual Harassment’ pledge. Little do you realise just how much this pledge has failed her. Although she’s been at UCL for over two

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