I was recently asked (again!) why I concentrate on “Survivors” rather than get more actively involved in “committees” and “enquiries” and politics, or what we would have referred to in the North as “dog hangings”(don’t ask!) There is no doubt that many of these campaigns have been have been invaluable,…
Happy New Year to you all! I guess, like me you are ploughing through endless e mails trying to sell you things ! I woke up yesterday to 158 of them! Among the mails and FB messages I came across one which was telling me about a couple of survivors…
I have to say after that positive story yesterday, I am back with the same old same old! Absolutely sickened to hear that yet another well known “victim” of catholic clergy has been appointed to the papal commission into clergy abuse. I don’t think there is a sick bag big…
I don’t know about any of you, but when I was taught Physics at school it was taught so badly and was bloody appalling! I didn’t learn very much at all apart from how to make pretty pictures with magnets and iron filings, and something else about tuning forks…
Dear Home Secretary I write as the Co – founder of a European-wide network of Survivors of abuse, based here in the Midlands, and as an NGO for the United Nations Commission for the Rights of the Child in relation to child abuse. I hear today that you are going…
Wonder why people think it is ok to offer a “that will do” approach to clergy abuse? It is everywhere, and especially as we see the debacle of this “over arching enquiry” in the UK. A cynical “that will do” mentality, to satisfy critics, and then a quick turn around…
Just A Reminder! I have felt the need to repeat and clarify something I wrote a while ago, about the world of survivors. There is a lot of talk about “committees” and “enquiries” and “commissions” and “focus groups” , everyone jostling for position at the front etc. So I think…
I have just been privileged to attend and participate in the wonderful “Religious- Right, Secularism and Civil Rights” conference in London at the weekend.What an amazing experience! What brave and inspiring people! What connections,shared tears, laughter,strength and resolve. There are many Tyrannical regimes, they may have different faces and names but their tactics…
The “Empty Chair” With all of the talk about our government’s “overarching” enquiry, and the church’s “committee” to look into child abuse I am often asked if I am involved? But if I was being considered to be part of any “enquiry” regarding childhood abuse , I would…
When we first began Survivors Voice Europe in Rome in 2010, we always knew that modern technology and communication was going to be very important to us. All of us survivors recognised that we all had felt extremely isolated, either geographically, or in the case of our wonderful deaf and…
