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Local councils have enormous power to help end violence against women and girls. Here's how you can help put violence against women and girls on candidates’ agendas!
May local elections: ask your local candidate to pledge to end VAWG
Local councils have enormous power to help end violence against women and girls. Here's how you can help put violence against women and girls on candidates’ agendas!
Alarming drop in domestic abuse charging mirrors justice system treatment of rape
Latest data shows CPS failing to meet its own targets to transform justice outcomes for rape survivors, as charging in domestic abuse cases continues to decline.
MPs call for violence against women and girls to be addressed in the Online Safety Bill
At the Bill’s second reading yesterday, MPs from across the political spectrum called for the new law to protect women and girls’ rights online
Parliamentary report exposes broken justice system for rape survivors
The Home Affairs Committee has today (12th April 2022) published its report on the investigation and prosecution of rape, which has been in sharp decline since 2016. While reported rapes reached an all-time high in the year to September 2021,…
Government releases plan to tackle domestic abuse as part of its wider VAWG strategy
The Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan represents a welcome change of course from government, which had previously proposed to separate the Domestic Abuse Strategy from the Tackling VAWG Strategy, without any consultation of stakeholders or impact assessment. We are pleased that…
Survivors left out of response to cost of living crisis
Yesterday (23rd March 2022), the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Spring Statement for 2022, as the UK faces a ‘cost of living crisis’ and the prospect of the biggest fall in living standards in a single year since records…
Women and girls failed by government’s Online Safety Bill
Today (17th March 2022) the government has released its long-awaited Online Safety Bill, which sets out to give internet companies a duty of care to users in a bid to create safer online spaces. While parliamentary committees working on strengthening…
MPs, football groups and equality organisations call for football to address gender-based violence
MPs, football groups and equality organisations are among those who have signed up in support of an open letter to the Premier League and FA by The End Violence Against Women Coalition, Level Up and The Three Hijabis, the campaigners…
New public campaigns a positive first step in ending violence against women
On 1st March 2022, the government launched a new public campaign aiming to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) by shaping the attitudes that normalise and tolerate this abuse. This follows the launch of a similar campaign by the…