A new report, published by Dr Alishya Dhir and Leyla Buran, co-leads of the Law and Policy Stream within the Centre for Protecting Women Online, presents new findings on Racially Minoritised Women’s experiences of tech abuse. Drawing on interviews with Racially Minoritised Women and specialist support service practitioners, the report highlights how current responses across policing, legislation and online platforms often fail to recognise highly complicated and multi-faceted compounded experiences.
The report examines issues including racialised image-based abuse, impersonation accounts, the weaponisation of shame, reporting to the police and the concept of a ‘hierarchy of justice’ (Dhir, 2026), whereby narrow legal definitions exclude some women from protection under existing offences. It concludes with recommendations for law reform, policing, funding for specialist support services and platform accountability, calling for responses to technology-facilitated violence against women and girls that better reflect the realities of all women’s lived experiences.
Read the full policy briefing and research report below.
