Feature | The role of media in shaping public perception of sexual violence
Voicing Voices | Survivor’s post-sharing When reading the news provokes distress: a survivor's perspective・Media as a double-edged sword: a survivor's experiences of interviews and reporting・The hurtful and healing power of narrating and writing
Feature | Justice: Imagination Beyond the Judiciary
Voicing Voices | Exploring the potential of "narrative justice" in practice・ Behind “Where There is Peace” at 480.0・ Survivor’s post-sharing reflection
Hong Kong’s sexual violence crisis centre, RainLily, has reported an increase in cases of image-based sexual violence over the past two service years. From April 2021 to March 2023, RainLily handled 646 request-for-assistance related to image-based sexual violence (IBSV), and provided "Take-Down Assistance" support to 1,342 non-consensual intimate images that were published online, removing 89% of them.
Read MoreFEATURE | "The Lack of Sex Education?" - Sex Education Policies in Hong Kong and Other Places
HEAR ME OUT | What sex education didn't teach me
Read MoreAssociation Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women and RainLily announce Doris Chong Tsz-Wai as the new Executive Director. Doris will lead the organisations in her new position from 1 March 2023. Linda Wong Sau-Yung, the co-founder of the Association and the long-serving Executive Director of the Association and RainLily, will take up a new role as the organisations’ Consultant.
Read MoreFEATURE | Submission on the proposed legislation of "Mandatory Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse Cases"
HEAR ME OUT | Can mandatory reporting bring child sexual abuse cases to light?
Read MoreFEATURE | Survey on Hong Kong Women’s Experiences of Violence 2021
HEAR ME OUT | International Webinar on Image-Based Sexual Violence
Read MoreRainLily's latest tram advertisement campaign promotes awareness on Image-Based Sexual Violence and consent.
Read MoreRainLily collaborates with Meta to launch Hong Kong version of StopNCII.org, a tool to help victim-survivors of image-based sexual violence to response to non-consensual intimate images
Read MoreThe International Webinar on Image-Based Sexual Violence focuses on emerging forms of technology-facilitated sexual violence and the responding legislative measures addressing the issue regionally and globally.
Read MoreIn Hong Kong, public health and social measures have caused greater emotional burden to those experienced the trauma of sexual violence. Along with the worry of getting infected and experiencing information anxiety, survivors are also affected by increased flashback frequency due to decreased social contacts.
Read MoreRainLily's new identity highlights the coexistence of a raindrop and six petals, symbolising the traumatic event and the lifelong process of healing; survivors' resilience and transformation in the journey to find justice; and the mutually supportive environment that we strive to build.
Read MoreFEATURE | Review of Ta-DA take down assistance services: The dilemma of help seekers and the response of online platforms
HEAR ME OUT | Walking together through the storm: Addressing the problem of child sexual abuse
Read MoreRainLily publishes updated data from January 2019 to September 2021 to enrich the territory's understanding about delayed disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) on this year’s International Women’s Day. The newly released data forms a partial follow-up of the 2019 RainLily retrospective report.
Read MoreHong Kong Women’s Coalition on Equal Opportunities, Zonta Club of Kowloon, Department of Sociology and Social Policy of Lingnan University launched a study on women's experiences of violence last year, with a quantitative and qualitative study conducted by Professor Annie Chan to collect the experiences of 1,044 women who have experienced sexual and intimate partner violence, and to analyse their reactions, feelings and impact when faced with violence. The same study had previously been conducted and published in 2013, and, compared to the results of 2013, it was found that women were exposed to sexual and intimate partner violence with equivalent severity, and the increased forms and avenues of violence were found to compound in women feelings of helplessness, as well as greater mental and emotional stress.
Read MoreFEATURE | Why a recent sexual assault case with the assailant impersonated as a lesbian shows the significance of the 'affirmative consent model'
HEAR ME OUT | Survivor of recent trial deemed as an attack on LGBTQ+ communities voices out
Read MoreRainLily, Hong Kong's first sexual violence crisis centre has published the annual figures on its sexual violence support sexual violence on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 25 November, to promote awareness of the trend and current situation of sexual violence in Hong Kong.
Read MoreThe Chief Executive has delivered 2021 Policy Address in the Legislative Council on 6th October 2021. However, there has been no measures and policy recommendations addressing supports to victim-survivors of sexual violence.
Read MoreThe Legislative Council has passed the Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2021 on 30 September 2021. The amendment will patch a loophole that was prompted by the Court of Final Appeal’s 2019 ruling on the offence of ‘Access to computer with criminal or dishonest intent’ should not be applied to suspects using their own computer, and further criminalise a range of Image-Based Sexual Violence (IBSV) behaviours that involve non-consensual taking, sharing, and threatening to share intimate images.
Read MoreFEATURE | The 3rd Asia-Pacific Summit on Gender-based Violence: Turning Laws into Actions: Eliminating Gender-based Violence in Asia-Pacific
HEAR ME OUT | An Alternative Aside of Legal Justice: Community Justice
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