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Tackling Violence Against Women: A Cross-Government Narrative
This report draws together work being done across Government to tackle violence against women and responds to the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition’s annual Making the Grade survey. To view the report please click here.
Women Not For Sale
The report Women Not For Sale sets out findings from research commissioned to establish the scale of advertising of women and services offered by women in personal classifieds in the English regional and local press. The research found that the advertising of women, either discreetly or overtly, for sex or sexual services in the regional press is commonplace. Typically, these advertisements are sandwiched between innocuous advertisements for other services and goods. For more information click here.
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence currently claims 104 lives a year, 83 women and 21 men, and it has a devastating impact on many other people. The Government is determined to prevent domestic violence happening or recurring, to protect and support its victims, and to bring offenders to justice.
This Government is committed to tackling domestic violence. As the statistics show, it is rarely a one-off incident, but is usually manifested as a pattern of abusive and controlling behaviour. The Government is determined to ensure that perpetrators are held accountable for their actions.
It has defined domestic violence as ‘any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality.’
To find out more about Domestic Violence including what the Government is doing about it visit the Home Office Domestic Violence Mini-Site http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/dv/dv01.htm.
UK Action Plan on Tackling Human Trafficking
The Action Plan launched in March 2007, pulls together the work currently under way to tackle trafficking across government. It creates a platform for future work to combat the problem and aims to balance protecting and assisting victims with enforcement work targeting the organised crime groups responsible for much of the trafficking.
Subjects covered by the Action plan are:
A copy of the action plan can be viewed at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/human-traffick-action-plan?view=Binary.
The Cross Government Action Plan on Sexual and Violent Abuse
The Action Plan was published in April 2007 and it brings together the measures underway and planned to deliver our key objectives on sexual violence and abuse, which are:
A copy of the action plan can be viewed at http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/sexualoffences/finalsvaap.pdf.
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