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Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls: Action Plan
March 2011
To coincide with International Women’s Day, the coalition Government has launched Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls: Action Plan which is available to download at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/vawg
The Action Plan brings together actions across Government to:
- prevent violence from happening by challenging the attitudes and behaviours which foster it and intervening early where possible to prevent it
- provide adequate levels of support where violence does occur
- work in partnership to obtain the best outcome for victims and their families
- take action to reduce the risk to women and girls who are victims of these crimes and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice
Prevention is at the heart of our approach and we are focussing on awareness raising, early identification and early intervention. The Action Plan also recognised that violence against women and girls occurs in all countries and it is an issue which crosses borders.
Today we have also published the Government’s response to Baroness Stern’s review into the way rape complaints are handled by public authorities in England and Wales. Please visit www.homeoffice.gov.uk/vawg to download this document.
Please see the fourth edition of the violence against women and girls newsletter which provides further information about the Action Plan and updates on:
- Direct funding for rape crisis centres
- Improving our response to domestic violence
- Establishing statutory domestic homicide reviews
- Ministry of Defence publishes tri-service policy on domestic and sexual violence
- Guidance published to prevent and tackle female genital mutilation
- Taking steps to tackle forced marriage
- New actions to tackle stalking and harassment
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