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International Women’s Day is here, and this year, all of us at Glamour want to mark it by celebrating the campaigners making the world safer for women and girls.
Already this year, the government has made it illegal to create deepfaked, sexualised images without consent, introduced 48-hour takedown orders for sites hosting abusive images, and, most recently, announced plans to ban so-called ‘semen’ images and incest porn. At Glamour, we’ve long been pushing for such extraordinary change, and we’re honoured to partner with the likes of Professor Clare McGlynn, Jodie Campaigns, the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Not Your Porn, and Baroness Charlotte Owen to help achieve it.
The campaign to address all forms of VAWG within the law, whether physical or digital, has a long history because progress takes time. Against such a beast, it can be hard not to lose hope and to remember to recognise the wins when they arise. Today – and every day – the women fighting for a safer future deserve their flowers.
Meet the women changing the law on image-based abuse
Baroness Charlotte Owen
Courtesy of Baroness Charlotte Owen
Since entering the House of Lords in 2024, Baroness Charlotte Owen has focused on tackling deepfake intimate image abuse. Working alongside the likes of the Revenge Porn Helpline, Not Your Porn, MyImageMyChoice, Jodie Campaigns, EVAW and Clare McGlynn, Owen was braced for a long fight, but the group has made significant progress in a few short years.
“I am so grateful to the survivors, campaigners and Glamour magazine who have fought alongside me for so long to achieve comprehensive protections in law around intimate image abuse,” says Owen. “I am so proud of the incredible group of women who stood up against this vile form of abuse and worked with me to change the law. Our work is not yet complete, but I know that together we will continue to fight.”
Owen also reminded us that the battle for change isn’t over until we reckon with society’s judgment of people sharing intimate imagery. “We now live in a world where most adults under the age of thirty will have consensually exchanged intimate images,” Owen continued. “It is vital that we adapt to this new reality and have a law comprehensive enough to protect them. As a society, we must do better to remove the shame and stigma so unfairly and disproportionately placed on women when those images are taken out of context and shared without their consent.”
Rebecca Hitchen, Head of Policy & Campaigns at the End Violence Against Women Coalition
Courtesy of Rebecca Hitchen
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