**Trigger Warning: Descriptions of Rape** According to a new Government strategy to support male victims of abuse, TV dramas with story lines centred around male rape have contributed to a 57% rise in men and boys aged over 13 reporting sexual assaults. The report, a statement paper separate to the Ending Violence Against Women Strategy published by the Home Office, specially addresses male victims and the impact of those coming forward is having on services. Since 2015/16,

We've launched our first survey project, "Speaking Out", and we'd like you to help reach more survivors. Estimates suggest that, in the last year alone, 1.3 million women and 700,000 men experienced domestic abuse.[1] This shocking figure doesn’t even come close to the full scale of the issue: add in the hundreds of thousands each year who experience other sexual violence, image-based sexual abuse, stalking, harassment, or coercive control and you’ll no doubt double those est

Authorities warned ‘intrusion’ could stop women reporting rape after prosecutions fall to 1.7 per cent.

No one would judge me if I wanted to scream at them with every insult - but I don't think that's what I'd want to do. I was in an air-conditioned, windowless meeting room within the bowels BBC’s Broadcasting House. I was sitting across a table with a producer who wanted to help me tell my story in a documentary he was planning. I walked him through what happened, the attacks, life afterwards and how I came about to founding a charity to help others. To prepare me for the docu

With Stay Brave UK currently developing educational packages for schools to educate and reduce the stigma amongst the younger generation in

At Avon and Somerset Police we’re trying to raise awareness of male rape and sexual assault with the aim of encouraging more victims to come forward and ensuring the support is there for them when they do. Our campaign to improve services and increase reporting can be summed up in three words – Listen, Believe and Respect – and we’ll be using the hashtag #ListenBelieveRespect to promote it. We want to encourage all male victims of rape, sexual assault or attempted sexual assa

On the 19th November the world celebrates International Men’s Day (IMD) with the aims to promote men’s and boy’s health, improving gender relations, promoting gender equality, and highlighting male role models. This year’s IMD theme in the UK is “supporting boys with their academic, employment, personal, social and health education” while continuing the attention needed on male suicide. In the UK men are four times more likely to kill themselves than women, with (on average)

It’s a feature that Apple never want you to use, but the new WatchOS update for all Apple watches, there’s an “SOS” feature, giving you a one-touch way to reach emergency services in a life-threatening situation. All users have to do is press and hold the side button on their Watch for 6 seconds. A countdown will begin to scroll across the screen, and a loud alert will inform you that you’re about to be put through to 999. If you’re in an unfamiliar country, the Watch will ri