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Expert on Violence Against Women & Girls
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Jan 4
Parliament Debates Proposed Deepfake LawÂ
The UK Parliament debated  on 13 December 2024 a proposed new law criminalising the taking, soliciting and creating of intimate images...
Aug 21, 2024
New Review of Sexual/Indecent Exposure Research
Should we be taking stronger action against sexual/indecent exposure as the behaviour might escalate to contact sexual offending? This...
Jul 25, 2024
New Appointment to Council of Europe Expert Committee on Tech-Facilitated Violence Against Women
I am honoured to be appointed to the Council of Europe’s newly established Committee of Experts on Combating Technology-Facilitated...
Jun 25, 2024
New Campaign calling for Image Based Abuse Law
A new campaign has been launched calling for a comprehensive Image Based Abuse Law to better protect women’s rights and freedoms online...
May 2, 2024
New Criminal Offence to Create Deepfake Porn
Following calls for reform, the UK Government has announced plans to criminalise creating sexually explicit deepfakes without consent....
Apr 18, 2024
Degraded by Deepfakes
A powerful new BBC radio documentary Degraded by Deepfakes explores the experiences of ‘Jodie’ who had deepfake porn made of her without...
Mar 27, 2024
First #Cyberflashing ConvictionÂ
The first man convicted of the new offence of #cyberflashing in England & Wales was sentenced this week to 66 weeks imprisonment. On ITV...
Feb 15, 2024
New Police Guidance to Improve Rape Investigations
My research with colleagues has developed new guidance to improve police responses to rape and sexual offending which is now part of the...
Dec 14, 2023
Appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission
I am honoured to have been appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission, the body responsible for the selection of judges in England...
Oct 4, 2023
New: Deepfake Nudes and Why Google Must Act
The world may finally be waking up to the reality of deepfake porn, with news last week that young boys in Spain used AI nudify apps to...
Sep 24, 2023
Fake Porn-Real Victims: New Documentary on Deepfake Porn
The harmful reality of deepfake porn is laid bare in a powerful new documentary by the renowned Swiss media company NZZ, featuring...
Jul 24, 2023
New Online Safety Bill Guidance to tackle abuse of women and girls
Following a long campaign, the Government has agreed to change the Online Safety Bill to better protect women and girls from online...
Jul 7, 2023
Pornography Review Announced
The UK Government has announced an ambitious and much-needed review of pornography regulation. I welcomed this review in the Guardian,...
May 19, 2023
Debating Criminal law and Feminism on BBC Radio
In debates on the abolition of prisons and defunding the police following #BlackLivesMatter, where does this leave women survivors of...
Apr 21, 2023
New Campaign to Close Loopholes in Cyberflashing Law
This week saw the launch of a new campaign by Bumble, Grazia and UN Women urging UK Government ministers to reconsider their approach...
Mar 6, 2023
Stephen Bear sentencing takes intimate image abuse seriously
Stephen Bear has been sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for the taking and sharing of a sexual video of his then girlfriend, influencer...
Feb 3, 2023
Online misogyny set to be outlawed
The front page of The Daily Telegraph reports the Government are set to include a Code of Practice on Violence Against Women and Girls in...
Dec 15, 2022
Daily Telegraph publishes letter from coalition of women’s rights organisations & Professor McGlynn
Professor Clare McGlynn has joined calls for changes to the Online Safety Bill to ensure it better protects women and girls from online...
Dec 5, 2022
Research on Intimate Image Abuse raised in Parliamentary debate about Online Safety Bill
Research by Professor Clare McGlynn The Online Safety Bill returned to the UK Parliament today, with Dame Maria Miller MP recommending...
Nov 29, 2022
International human rights body adopts new statement on online violence against women
Published by Professor Clare McGlynn The United Nations group of independent human rights organisations monitoring violence against women...
Oct 18, 2022
Cum Tributes: Women Are Getting Harassed Online in a Gross New Way
Worrying new report on websites where men ejaculate onto images of women with Clare McGlynn explaining men do this to enhance their...
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