violence Articles

My to-read pile has always contained large reports on it, with line after line of increasingly dismal statistics, often peppered with heartbreaking testimonies from women survivors and more often than not stories of violence where the women involved are not alive to...

Saturday 8 March 2014 marks International Women’s Day and women, and some men, will want to mark it in some way. In Westminster MPs took part in debates highlighting the different conditions that women live and work under in different parts of the globe: a debate in...

As we mark today the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, it is worth reminding the world community about its utmost responsibilities to protect impoverished people from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC has been plagued by instability for...

Labour must act to protect violence against women services. The disproportionate impact of the recession and spending decisions on women has been well documented. Labour has done much to bring this to light, including through a gender audit commissioned by Yvette...