On International Women’s Day, it was an honour to be recognised by Glamour UK for my work to end image-based sexual abuse. I have been working with Glamour’s Purpose Editor Lucy Morgan over the past year on a campaign for an Image-Based Abuse Law, together with the End Violence Against Women Coalition, #NotYourPorn and #JodieCampaigns.
In nominating me, Lucy wrote in Glamour
Every victory in the fight against image-based abuse in the UK can be traced back to Clare McGlynn, Professor of law at Durham University. Her survivor-focused expert legal guidance has underpinned successful campaigns, including putting violence against women and girls in the Online Safety Act, changing the law on upskirting, creating a new criminal offence for cyberflashing, collaborating with Rape Crisis and the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) to make possessing “rape porn” a criminal offence, and most recently, working with Glamour, EVAW, Not Your Porn, and Jodie Campaigns to lobby the government to criminalise the creation of nonconsensual deepfake pornography. Professor McGlynn’s deep commitment to honouring the experiences of survivors sets her apart as one of the most trusted experts in the Ending Violence Against Women & Girls space. When she’s in the room, people notice. When she speaks, people listen. —Lucy Morgan, purpose editor, Glamour UK
I am privileged to work with so many amazing women campaigners and survivor-activists. They inspire me to carry on working towards change, towards ending image-based sexual abuse. Ther are 5 main asks in our campaign:
Strengthen criminal laws about creating, taking and sharing intimate images without consent (including sexually explicit deepfakes)
Improve civil laws for survivors to take action against perpetrators and tech companies (including taking down abusive content)
Prevent image-based abuse through comprehensive relationships, sex and health education
Fund specialist services that provide support to victims and survivors of image-based abuse
Create an online abuse commission to hold tech companies accountable for image-based abuse
We are making progress, such as the recent changes to the laws on deepfakes. Further, Parliament’s Women & Equalities Committee Report published in early March makes many recommendations from the campaign and my research, such as strengthening the civil law to enable women to get orders to delete and take down imagery.
Want to know more?
Read about our campaign for an Image-Based Abuse Law.
Sign Jodie’s petition at Change.org.
Read more Glamour’s coverage of the campaign and changes in the laws on deepfakes.
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