Feature | Without Proper Protection for Victims, How Can There Be Judicial Justice?
Voicing Voices | Rethinking Court Design from Victim-survivors’ Perspective
RainLily publishes Retrospective Study Statistical Report 2019-2023, a follow-up report on its major research programme. The report provides statistical data and analysis of 1,984 sexual violence cases handled between 2019 and 2023, along with other past cases.
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Stephen Wong and RainLily present A Hundred Islands Furoshiki, a gentle reminder that even in solitude, you can find peace and connection under the sky. It can be displayed on your wall, accompany you on your travels as a bag, carry your picnic with friends, or serve as a thoughtful gift wrap.
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RainLily responds to the passage of mandatory reporting of child abuse legislation and hopes that professionals in various sectors will, while complying with the Ordinance, recognise that reporting cases is merely one of the post-incident measures and not the primary or sole task in protecting children and adolescents. At the same time, they should focus carefully and without making assumptions on the true needs of the victim-survivors, avoiding the notion that reporting is the only means of protecting the victim-survivors' best interests.
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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.
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FEATURE | "The Lack of Sex Education?" - Sex Education Policies in Hong Kong and Other Places
HEAR ME OUT | What sex education didn't teach me
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Association 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.
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FEATURE | 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?
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FEATURE | Survey on Hong Kong Women’s Experiences of Violence 2021
HEAR ME OUT | International Webinar on Image-Based Sexual Violence
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RainLily's latest tram advertisement campaign promotes awareness on Image-Based Sexual Violence and consent.
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RainLily 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
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The 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.
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In 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.
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RainLily'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.
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FEATURE | 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
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RainLily 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.
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Hong 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.
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