Sentences with phrase «tackling violence against women»

The public art series can be found on walls across the globe, amassing international attention for tackling violence against women in public spaces.

I am also looking forward to continuing my work tackling violence against women and girls, and on ending FGM at home and abroad.

2.30 pm: Delegates debate a motion on tackling violence against women which calls for all women's prisons to be closed and for most women offenders to be housed in supervision centres in the community.

The minister for crime prevention told the Guardian: «As the Home Office minister with responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, I am extremely concerned by the sexist and utterly abhorrent statements Julien Blanc has made about women.

«As a law enforcement agency, the safety of people engaged in sex work is paramount to the police and tackling violence against women and girls is also a priority for the Met Police.

For the UK, tackling violence against women and girls are of high priority because it presents a major obstacle of ending gender inequality,» he added.

The Labour party appointed Seema Malhotra as the first - ever shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls, and the Archbishop of Canterbury vocalised his backing for Christian charity Restored, which is equipping the Church to tackle gender - based violence.

The government's efforts to tackle violence against women are too piecemeal and inadequately funded, a damning new report has said.

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They need to be taken as proof that more must be done to tackle the epidemic of male violence against women and girls.

Labour has a proud history of standing up for women, from Barbara Castle's support for the Equal Pay Act, to Harriet Harman making tackling male violence against women a priority for the party, and Diane Abbott's campaigning for BAME representation.

In an assessment of the strategy to improve the way prosecutors tackle cases of violence against women and girls, Starmer will reveal that in the past year the Crown Prosecution Service has reported its highest conviction rate for domestic violence.

It's true that under the Coalition and the Conservative government, we have seen new laws designed to tackle male violence against women.

The Labour leadership candidate published proposals on tackling violence and harassment against women overnight.

Yet, despite increased global attention to violence perpetrated against women and girls, and recent advances in knowledge about how to tackle these abuses (Paper 1, Paper 3), levels of violence against women — including intimate partner violence, rape, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and forced marriages — remain unacceptably high, with serious consequences for victims» physical and mental health.

Section D: Suggestions on the way forward in tackling sexual violence against women / girls or rape

The Federal Government of Somalia has in time indicated its intention to tackle sexual violence against women and girls.

She joined the Advisory Board of Prix Pictet in 2008 and set up and Chaired the Corporate Development Board for Women's Aid (a charity tackling domestic violence against Women and children) in 2005.

It illustrates the critical importance of tackling poverty, homelessness, violence against women, and other social determinants of health (without actually once mentioning this term, SDOH, although there is a section on the social determinants of incarceration).