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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.
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.
RainLily's latest tram advertisement campaign promotes awareness on Image-Based Sexual Violence and consent.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
RainLily, 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.