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 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.
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Submission to LegCo Bill Committee on Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2021 by Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women.
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On International Women’s Day (8th March), ACSVAW announces ‘Take-Down Assistance’ (‘Ta-DA’), a new service to assist victim-survivors of non-consensual distribution of intimate images to request online platforms for removal and related follow up. The Association, in the meantime, calls for the government to act proactively in safeguarding rights of victim-survivors that have experienced any forms of image-based sexual abuse, particularly to cover threats to sharing intimate images in the on-going legislative work on ‘Voyeurism, and non-consensual photography of intimate parts, and related offences.
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The Association’s submission on Security Bureau’s Consultation on the Proposed Introduction of Offences of Voyeurism, Intimate Prying, Non-consensual Photography of Intimate Parts, and Related Offences.
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The Association has launched its latest report on Image-Based Sexual Violence (IBSV), “Survey Report on Image-Based Sexual Violence 影像性暴力經驗問卷調查報告,” at a press conference on 7 March 2020. The survey, completed between May, 2019 and January, 2020, consists of an online questionnaire which collected responses from 206 victim-survivors and in-depth interviews with 11 victims-survivors
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The Association welcomes the recent release of Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual Upskirt Photography by the Law Reform Commission (LRC) on the 30th April 2019. The Association would anticipate the proposed legal reform can be implemented as soon as possible to patch the current legal loopholes.
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The Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women would express its anticipation and concerns towards the release of the Law Reform Commission's Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual upskirt-photography on 30th April 2019.
Read MoreImage-based sexual abuse (IBSA) exists on a continuum, covering many different forms of activities. In the Edison Chen incident, IBSA manifests in the 1) stealing, 2) non-consensual dissemination and 3) non-consensual viewing of private sexual images. Other types include “upskirting,” “revenge porn,” sexual extortion, recording of sexual assaults, and “sexualised photoshopping.”
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