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Our campaign make misogyny a hate crime is not over

For several years, Fawcett has campaigned for misogyny to be made a hate crime. 

Women face harassment and abuse every day in public and online. Unless we recognise the scale of misogyny in our society and name it as such, we cannot begin to address it. 

Along with you, our wonderful supporters, we have continually called for the Government to take action to address the misogynistic abuse women face by including it within the current hate crime framework.  

Today, we are left feeling disappointed, following the publication of the Law Commission Review of Hate Crime, which has recommended that misogyny should not be made a hate crime. 

We believe that the report is a wasted opportunity to make real change for women. 

It fails to recognise how misogyny drives crimes against women and girls.
By not joining together hate crime legislation it ignores the experiences of women from minoritised communities who experience hatred based on multiple factors. 

Along with nearly 20 leading women's rights and hate crime organisations, we have released a joint public response to the Law Commission report: 
Read our statement here
Whilst this isn’t the outcome that we wanted, we are pleased that the Law Commission has acknowledged the harm caused by public sexual harassment and the very real danger posed by extreme misogynistic ideologies, such as what we saw during the tragic attack in Plymouth.

We welcome their recommendation that the Government consider a new law on public sexual harassment.

➡️ You can join the call from Our Streets Now, demanding that the Government take action on this. 

On misogyny, we will continue to hold the Government to account for the separate commitment they have made to recording hate crimes against women across the country, building on the good work done by a quarter of police forces already. 

Thank you for your support so far and we will keep campaigning together with you to ensure women’s everyday experiences of misogynistic violence and abuse are recognised, recorded and tackled.
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