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Expert on Violence Against Women & Girls

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New Review of Sexual/Indecent Exposure Research

Aug 21

Sexual Violence & Justice

New Review of Sexual/Indecent Exposure Research

Should we be taking stronger action against sexual/indecent exposure as the behaviour might escalate to contact sexual offending? This...

New Appointment to Council of Europe Expert Committee on Tech-Facilitated Violence Against Women

Jul 25

New Appointment to Council of Europe Expert Committee on Tech-Facilitated Violence Against Women

I am honoured to be appointed to the Council of Europe’s newly established Committee of Experts on Combating Technology-Facilitated...

New Campaign calling for Image Based Abuse Law

Jun 25

Image-Based Abuse

New Campaign calling for Image Based Abuse Law

A new campaign has been launched calling for a comprehensive Image Based Abuse Law to better protect women’s rights and freedoms online...

New Criminal Offence to Create Deepfake Porn

May 2

Image-Based Abuse

New Criminal Offence to Create Deepfake Porn

Following calls for reform, the UK Government has announced plans to criminalise creating sexually explicit deepfakes without consent....

Degraded by Deepfakes

Apr 18

Degraded by Deepfakes

A powerful new BBC radio documentary Degraded by Deepfakes explores the experiences of ‘Jodie’ who had deepfake porn made of her without...

First #Cyberflashing Conviction

Mar 27

First #Cyberflashing Conviction

The first man convicted of the new offence of #cyberflashing in England & Wales was sentenced this week to 66 weeks imprisonment. On ITV...

New Police Guidance to Improve Rape Investigations

Feb 15

Sexual Violence & Justice

New Police Guidance to Improve Rape Investigations

My research with colleagues has developed new guidance to improve police responses to rape and sexual offending which is now part of the...

Appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission

Dec 14, 2023

Appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission

I am honoured to have been appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission, the body responsible for the selection of judges in England...

New: Deepfake Nudes and Why Google Must Act

Oct 4, 2023

New: Deepfake Nudes and Why Google Must Act

The world may finally be waking up to the reality of deepfake porn, with news last week that young boys in Spain used AI nudify apps to...

Fake Porn-Real Victims: New Documentary on Deepfake Porn

Sep 24, 2023

Image-Based Abuse

Fake Porn-Real Victims: New Documentary on Deepfake Porn

The harmful reality of deepfake porn is laid bare in a powerful new documentary by the renowned Swiss media company NZZ, featuring...

New Online Safety Bill Guidance to tackle abuse of women and girls

Jul 24, 2023

New Online Safety Bill Guidance to tackle abuse of women and girls

Following a long campaign, the Government has agreed to change the Online Safety Bill to better protect women and girls from online...

Pornography Review Announced

Jul 7, 2023

Pornography Review Announced

The UK Government has announced an ambitious and much-needed review of pornography regulation. I welcomed this review in the Guardian,...

Debating Criminal law and Feminism on BBC Radio

May 19, 2023

Sexual Violence & Justice

Debating Criminal law and Feminism on BBC Radio

In debates on the abolition of prisons and defunding the police following #BlackLivesMatter, where does this leave women survivors of...

New Campaign to Close Loopholes in Cyberflashing Law

Apr 21, 2023

New Campaign to Close Loopholes in Cyberflashing Law

This week saw the launch of a new campaign by Bumble, Grazia and UN Women urging UK Government ministers to reconsider their approach...

Stephen Bear sentencing takes intimate image abuse seriously

Mar 6, 2023

Image-Based Abuse

Stephen Bear sentencing takes intimate image abuse seriously

Stephen Bear has been sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for the taking and sharing of a sexual video of his then girlfriend, influencer...

Online misogyny set to be outlawed

Feb 3, 2023

Online misogyny set to be outlawed

The front page of The Daily Telegraph reports the Government are set to include a Code of Practice on Violence Against Women and Girls in...

Daily Telegraph publishes letter from coalition of women’s rights organisations & Professor McGlynn

Dec 15, 2022

Daily Telegraph publishes letter from coalition of women’s rights organisations & Professor McGlynn

Professor Clare McGlynn has joined calls for changes to the Online Safety Bill to ensure it better protects women and girls from online...

Research on Intimate Image Abuse raised in Parliamentary debate about Online Safety Bill

Dec 5, 2022

Research on Intimate Image Abuse raised in Parliamentary debate about Online Safety Bill

Research by Professor Clare McGlynn The Online Safety Bill returned to the UK Parliament today, with Dame Maria Miller MP recommending...

International human rights body adopts new statement on online violence against women

Nov 29, 2022

Sexual Violence & Justice

International human rights body adopts new statement on online violence against women

Published by Professor Clare McGlynn The United Nations group of independent human rights organisations monitoring violence against women...

Cum Tributes: Women Are Getting Harassed Online in a Gross New Way

Oct 18, 2022

Image-Based Abuse

Cum Tributes: Women Are Getting Harassed Online in a Gross New Way

Worrying new report on websites where men ejaculate onto images of women with Clare McGlynn explaining men do this to enhance their...

Bumble panel debate on cyberflashing with actor Emily Atack

Oct 2, 2022

Bumble panel debate on cyberflashing with actor Emily Atack

As part of dating app Bumble’s campaign to criminalise cyberflashing, Inbetweener’s actor and entertainer Emily Atack led a panel...

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Professor Clare McGlynn KC (Hon)

Durham Law School

Palatine Centre

Durham DH1 3LE

United Kingdom

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