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FACES Statement on Racially Motivated Sexual Violence and the Rise of Far-Right Activity

Rehana Faisal September 16, 2025 No Comments

We are horrified by the recent racially aggravated rape of a Sikh woman, and we stand in solidarity with her, her family, and the wider Sikh community. This attack is…

FACES Statement on the National Audit into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation

Rehana Faisal June 22, 2025 No Comments

Faiths Against Child Sexual Exploitation (FACES) is a coalition of Muslim and Christian leaders. Together, we stand united in our commitment to safeguarding all children from harm, working with experts…

Ordinary Men, Monstrous Crimes: How Narratives of Sexual Violence Serve Power

Rehana Faisal February 28, 2025 No Comments

The way we talk about sexual violence—whether in high-profile cases involving individuals such as Dominique Pelicot, or when referring to so-called “grooming gangs”— relies on simplistic binaries. Perpetrators are either…

Statement on ‘grooming gang’ comments made by the Home Secretary

Lucie Moore April 3, 2023 No Comments

As a group of Muslim and Christian leaders, we came together to set up Faiths Against Child Sexual Exploitation (FACES) in 2016. We are committed to facing abuse where it…

Out of the Frying Pan: Ukrainian Child Trafficking and Institutional Safeguarding

Mubinur Rahman March 19, 2022 No Comments

I was met with a calamitous headline from UNICEF a couple of days ago; “Ukraine war creating a child refugee every second”. Child traffickers and organised criminals have moved at…

Do We Care About Children?

Robert Lightowler November 25, 2021 No Comments

Isn’t the answer to that, ‘Of course we do. We care greatly about our children’? That is a question to everyone and not just to parents. It’s a question to…

Cutting off the nose to save the face! – a response to the IICSA report, Child Protection in Religious Organisations and Settings

Robert Lightowler September 21, 2021 No Comments

Are we cutting off our nose to save our face by protecting our organisation’s reputation and the perpetrator, instead of the abused child? That is one of the issues arising…

Appropriately Exposing Evil: The IICSA Inquiry on Child Abuse in Organised Networks

Peter Adams September 22, 2020 No Comments

The launch of a police investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse against media personality Jimmy Saville in 2012 was perhaps the pivotal point in our society really taking this…

Societal Attitudes toward Sexual Abuse as Portrayed Through Film and Television

Guest April 30, 2020 No Comments

This guest post is by Lizzie Bottrill, written as background to a screenplay on child sexual abuse as part of a master’s degree in Creative Writing No topic in the…

The journey of restoration from child abuse

Robert Lightowler February 5, 2020 No Comments

This is a guest post by Robert Lightowler from Courageous Exchange I cried when I watched the documentary. The BBC recently aired two documentaries about the sexual exploitation of young…

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