This text references image-based abuse.
Final night time, GLAMOUR returned to parliament to boost consciousness of our marketing campaign to introduce a devoted Picture-Primarily based Abuse Regulation.
The Rt Hon. Kirith Entwistle hosted a parliamentary roundtable in partnership with GLAMOUR and the Finish Violence In opposition to Girls & Women Coalition (EVAW), which explored every of the 5 coverage asks inside our proposed Picture-Primarily based Abuse Regulation. As a place to begin, the regulation should strengthen the legal regulation, enhance the civil regulation, forestall image-based abuse by way of intercourse schooling, fund specialist companies, and introduce an On-line Abuse Fee to carry tech firms accountable for image-based abuse.
A 12 months in the past, GLAMOUR hosted a roundtable in parliament about the specter of deepfake abuse. Since then, a lot has modified. Working example: two successive governments have dedicated to criminalising the creation of so-called deepfake pornography; two of the largest deepfake pornography websites have blocked entry to UK customers; and Google has introduced vital enhancements to cease folks accessing non-consensual deepfake porn in its search outcomes. However we have nonetheless acquired a protracted method to go.
Hannah Harley Younger
In 2024, GLAMOUR formally partnered with EVAW, Not Your Porn, Professor Clare McGlynn, and Jodie Campaigns to name for a complete Picture-Primarily based Abuse Regulation.
Jodie, a campaigner and survivor of deepfake abuse, bravely shared her story of being deepfaked by a detailed pal to petition the federal government to take image-based abuse significantly. In her op-ed for GLAMOUR, Jodie writes, “I need to reside in a world the place no lady has to really feel the devastation I felt once I found my picture had been manipulated with out my consent. A world the place survivors are supported, not shamed. And a world the place the legal guidelines don’t simply replicate the occasions, they lead them.”
We have been delighted to welcome Jodie to final night time’s occasion, in addition to many extra unimaginable survivors, consultants, and politicians to the roundtable, together with former GLAMOUR Girls of the 12 months Cally Jane Beech and Georgia Harrison, Baroness Charlotte Owen, Sharon Gaffka, Jess Davies, Ashley James, and Jasmine Johnson.