The British government announced on Tuesday a legal reform to strengthen the protection of women and victims of the non-consensual distribution of intimate images. The changes, included in the proposed Crime and Policing Bill, will extend the statute of limitations for reporting such acts—currently set at six months—to three years and will penalize the possession and publication on websites of pornography depicting strangulation or suffocation. According to the government, the reform is a key component of its Plan for Change to "halve violence against women and girls." The Secretary of State for Victims and Violence against Women and Girls, Alex Davies-Jones, warned that "misogynistic hate online has devastating consequences" and asserted that "this government will not stand idly by while women are raped online and victimized by violent pornography."