The first public event was a mock rape trial in Trafalgar Square in 1977, where women testified about violence they had suffered and who was responsible, including those in authority and employers.
[4][5] In 2015, Lesley Delmenico used the transcript of the trial as the basis of the play Pursuing Justice – Sex workers take their rapist to court.
They argue that police investigations have lost or neglected evidence, the CPS close too many cases, and prosecutors are less prepared and less robust than the defence.
[10] In 2014 WAR submitted 37 questions to the Home Affairs Select Committee regarding the responsibilities of various authorities for child rape in Rotherham.
[11] In 2014 WAR publicly criticised the increasing numbers of women being prosecuted for false allegations of rape and claimed some were innocent or should never have been jailed.
WAR campaigns for the police to stop separating investigations of rape and domestic violence when they are committed by the same man, and part of a pattern.
WAR actively supported legal challenges including of the benefit cap, that Personal Independence Payment should take into account mental illness caused by rape trauma and oppose the two-child limit on tax credits, and protested cuts to legal aid and women's support services.