The End Violence Against Women Campaign

The Women’s National Commission is a member of the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) Coalition Campaign, an unprecedented and growing group of organisations, including many of the leading women’s organisations working in the sector, the TUC, Amnesty International UK and the National Federation of Women’s Institutes.

The EVAW Coalition Campaign is the result of calls from the sector for Government to act on its commitment to the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) Strategic Objective D.1 to ‘take integrated measures to prevent and eliminate violence against women’.

EVAW is calling on the Government, public bodies and others to develop an integrated and strategic approach, and concerted action, to end violence against women. EVAW recommendations include: 

• The UK Government should develop an overarching strategy and action plan to end violence against women. This should be developed by a Project Board and be accompanied by a time limited Expert Reference Group representing different forms of VAW, to advise the Board on developing the Strategy. 
• A national independent Observatory on violence against women should be established to monitor progress, and to create a mechanism of accountability for Government.

If you would like to lend you or your organisations support to the campaign This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  Holly Dustin at Amnesty International UK.