As part of our #16 Days of Activism campaign against Gender-Based Violence, we continue our conversation with staff members from the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC), Nicola Mooney, Advocacy Worker, and Constance Trepanier, Legal Caseworker. 

In this episode we highlight which kinds of resources the SWRC has produced and produces to support survivors of gender-based violence and how important it is to train solicitors, police officers, and support workers on how to have a trauma informed approach when liaising with victims/survivors.  

We also speak about our dedicated weekly immigration advice surgery, staffed by solicitors from our Scottish Refugee & Migrant Centre in collaboration with the team at the SWRC, to provide a holistic service when survivors call for information.  

Lastly, we talk about the training the SWRC provides on topics such as sexual harassment, gender-based violence and domestic abuse; and we point out that all the work the SWRC does is informed by lived experience panels, which are part of current strategy the centre is working on.  

You can find out more about the services and resources provided by the SWRC on their website: Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk) 

Training’s details are available here: Training | Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk)  

More information on the immigration advice surgery here: Advice surgeries | Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk)