Our Campaigns
Join us in our campaign to create a safer world for women and girls
The End Violence Against Women Coalition has four campaign goals:
- For violence against women to be understood as a cause and consequence of women's inequality
- To raise awareness about the nature, extent and impacts of violence against women in the UK, and how it can be prevented
- For the UK Government and devolved administrations to develop integrated and strategic approaches to ending violence against women
- To share good practice across the UK
UK Government sets out its plan to tackle violence against women
On UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25th November 2010 ) Home Secretary Theresa May has set out her vision for ending violence against women with a focus on:
- preventing violence and challenging attitudes and behaviours
- providing support for victims
- working in partnership with public bodies and community groups
- reducing the risk to women and girls and bringing perpetrators to justice
This replaces the previous government's strategy and follows years of campaigning by members of the EVAW Coalition to comply with UN obligations to take such an approach.
An action plan will be published next Spring and EVAW is calling for it to include:- A long-term programme of work to prevent violence, including teaching young people about healthy relationships and respect for girls as well as ongoing public awareness raising campaigns similar to drink drive campaigns
- Funding to ensure specialist women's services in the community are funded such as Rape Crisis Centres, domestic violence projects and support for ethnic minority women
- Coordination across all government departments so that all schools, police forces, social services and health authorities play their part
- Regular monitoring and reporting of the plan
EVAW and Womankind Worldwide present a campaign letter to Coalition Government Minister Tim Loughton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children. (Nov, 2010)
Recent campaign activities
Prevention: Keep violence against women and girls on the education agenda - take action for 16 Days of Action Against Violence Against Women and Girls 2010
The Home Secretary Theresa May MP says that the prevention of violence against women and girls through education, is a priority for the Coalition Government.
The Coalition Government will be publishing a ‘strategic narrative’ on violence against women and girls (VAWG) on 25 November 2010, followed by an action plan next Spring.
The Coalition Government's commitment to teaching sexual consent in schools is welcome but it is not enough to ensure the safety of girls in schools and to effectively tackle attitudes that condone violence against women and girls.
Urgent action is needed to keep the Coalition Government to its promise to ensure that prevention through education and support for young women experiencing violence is a focus of the forthcoming strategy.
Take action now -
- Download our campaign leaflet on keeping violence against women and girls on the schools agenda.
- Use our template letter to write to or email Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education to ask for violence against women and girls to be a priority for the Department for Education.
A safer, fairer world for women is possible.
November 2010
Big Society: Take action - make the Coalition Government keeps its promise
Home Secretary Theresa May MP says violence against 
women
and girls (VAWG) is a priority. The Inter-Ministerial Group on VAWG
meets on 19th October and a 'strategic narrative' will be published in
November so now is the time to have your say.
Take action! Download our campaign leaflet on the Big Society and VAWG.
Use our template letter to key government departments to influence the strategy. Please tell the Coalition Government how important it is that women have support (access to Rape Crisis Centres, specialist domestic violence projects and services for ethnic minority women) no matter where they live, and that the crucial task of preventing violence is begun.
A safer, fairer world for women is possible.
Click here for the campaign leaflet
Click here for the template letter
October 2010