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This year White Ribbon UK has brought together more people than ever to
work towards ending male violence against women. Very sadly, some of the
most significant moments of 2019 have been led by the family and friends of
women who have lost their lives because of male violence. We take very
seriously our duty to build a legacy for every woman whom we have come to
know by name, and for all women affected by male violence, by continuing
and developing our work to change the male cultures that lead to such
abuse. Our male volunteer ambassadors, who are prepared to take a stand,
our women champions, and the many accredited and supporting organisations
are all critical to us achieving this aim.
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The figures surrounding domestic violence and abuse make for depressing
reading. They serve to highlight the inherent inequalities between men and
women, with men overwhelmingly responsible for violence towards their
spouses and partners, and women overwhelmingly the victims of it.
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Thank you to everyone who supported White Ribbon Day and the 16 Days of
Action to end male violence against women. Thousands of people have made
the White Ribbon Promise, worn a White Ribbon and raised awareness over the
last two and a half weeks.
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Torbay Council are a White Ribbon Accredited local authority. They have
developed an information and guidance service for those suffering abuse
called “Are You OK?”. As part of the work they have done around White
Ribbon Day and the 16 Days of Action, they worked with local school St
Cuthbert Mayne, to raise awareness in a brilliant and unique way.
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White Ribbon UK calls upon men to take a stand against male violence
towards women. We are also aware that the issue is systemic. That sexist
attitudes are present throughout our society, through the media,
workplaces, politics and services.
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Once you have been given an awareness of the gendered nature of violence in
society – in the sense that the vast majority of it is enacted by men – it
is something which is difficult to unsee. It starts to become clear that
different cases and different forms of violence are actually frequently
interconnected, even if they may take place in very different contexts.
Newspaper headline after headline starts to tell a specific story, and it
is not one of ‘isolated incidents’. They tell a story of attempts to
assert, or reclaim, masculine power and control – be that against women,
other men, children, animals, the environment…even against ourselves, in
terms of the range of self-destructive behaviours that our inability to
meet unattainable standards of masculinity can feed into.
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, the misogynistic
campus shooting in 1989, that led to the forming of the White Ribbon
Campaign in Canada, and subsequently, the rest of the world. We would like
to introduce some of our White Ribbon partners across the world. All White
Ribbon Campaigns are autonomous and have grown and developed to the context
in which they operate.
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Violence against women aged 60 and over is an overlooked issue. Despite
several decades of research and activism which has raised awareness of the
widespread prevalence of violence against women and girls, and contributed
to successive legal and policy reforms, older women have been neglected in
these developments.
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