Jess Phillips, the UK’s Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Towards Girls & Women, has shared an replace with GLAMOUR concerning the ongoing epidemic of violence in opposition to girls and women.
“The previous few weeks have been fairly robust on the ladies and women in our nation,” Phillips begins. “Watching shameful acts of violence has made us all really feel what we frequently really feel, which is unsafe.”
Male violence in opposition to girls and women has undoubtedly dominated the headlines for the previous few weeks. On 29 July, a male suspect stabbed and killed three younger women at a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop in Southport. Six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar died from their accidents. An extra 9 kids and two adults have been injured. Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year-old boy, has been arrested and charged with homicide and tried homicide.
“I wish to guarantee that individuals realise that we recognise, right here in authorities, how tough it’s and the way a lot grief is at the moment being felt within the nation, and say that we hear you,” Phillips continues. “And we all know that we’ve got to do every thing that we are able to to begin stopping slightly than simply cleansing up the violence dedicated by males in opposition to girls and women in our nation.”
Phillips reiterates the Labour authorities’s dedication to halve violence in opposition to girls and women inside a decade, including, “We’ll use each lever to make sure that our felony justice system can and does deal with probably the most violent offenders, however that we’re additionally in search of to stop it from occurring within the first place.
“For too lengthy, it has felt {that a} loss of life toll of girls is simply one thing that we’ve got obtained used to. That point has to finish. And we’ll guarantee that, on this authorities, we do every thing that we probably can to make that the case.”
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