Moving in the shadows: introduction / L. Kelly -- At the intersection: Black and minority ethnic women and the criminal justice system / S. Smee -- Multi-faithism and the gender question: implications of government policy on the struggle for equality and rights for minority women in the UK / P. Patel -- Violent intersections: re-visiting the traffic in women and girls / J. Turner -- Sexuality and South Asian women: a taboo? / S. Takhar -- Two steps forward, one step back: the fight against female genital mutilation in the UK / M. Roach & C. Momoh -- "It's all about stopping you from getting on with your life": post-seperation violence in the lives of Asian and African-Carribean women / R. K. Thiara -- Criminal gangs, male-dominated services and the women and girls who fall through the gaps / C. Firmin -- Possession or oppression: witchcraft and spirit possession accusations as a form of ritual abuse of children and women / E. Secker & Y. Rehman -- Lost for words: difficulties naming and disclosing sexual violence in Hindi / S. Pande -- "True honour": domestic violence, forced marriage and honour crimes in the UK / H. Siddiqui -- "It begins with Sister": polygyny and Muslims in Britain / Y. Rehman -- Finding a voice: African and Carribean heritage women help seeking / A. Kanyeredzi -- Women seeking asylum-failed twice over / D. Singer -- Working trans-culturally with domestically violent men / P. Price -- Challenging domestic abuse in the Arabic speaking community: the experience of Al-Aman / M. A. Ballela -- A fuss about nothing? delivering services to Black and minority ethnic survivors of gender violence: the role of the specialist Black and minority ethnic women's sector / M. Larasi.