Stop Violence Against Women - Show Your Support in 3 Simple
Steps!
Dear Friends
The Women's Coalition - Scottish Women's Aid, Rape Crisis
Scotland , Engender, The Zero Tolerance Trust, The Women's
Support Project, its networks of stakeholder organisations
and individuals request of the new Scottish Government to
pledge its commitment to addressing violence against women
over the next four years.
Scotland has been at the forefront of developing innovative
work on violence against women from a gender-based analysis.
The last decade has seen a number of significant developments
in Scotland in relation to work to address violence against
women.
This has included the development of a domestic abuse strategy,
with related training and prevention strategies, and, more
recently, a broadening out of the focus to encompass the continuum
of violence against women to include rape, commercial sexual
exploitation and so called traditional practices.
You can actively support The Statement of Intent 2007 Campaign
by urging your MSPs to build on the considerable advances
made over the past 10 years to tackle the issue and to continue
to invest in the work necessary to make Scotland a safe, just
and equal society for women.
Step 1. Sign the e-petition
http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=191
Step 2. Find out who your MSP is by clicking here
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/membersPages/msplocator.htm
a) Ask them to sign the Statement of Intent if they have
not done so already. The list of signed MSPs will be updated
daily (click
here) and if they haven't signed email them a copy
to the Statement of Intent 2007 and letter (click
here Word doc).
b) Ask your MSP to support Motion S3M-548 The Women's Coalition
Statement of Intent 2007 and thereby pledging their support
to prioritising women's issues over the next four years.
"S3M-548 Shirley-Anne Somerville (Lothians) (SNP): Women's
Coalition Statement of Intent 2007- That the Parliament affirms
its commitment to ending violence against women by endorsing
the Women's Coalition Statement of Intent 2007; calls on the
Scottish Government to adopt a broad definition of violence
against women, which makes the link between domestic abuse,
rape and commercial sexual exploitation, and to continue provision
of funding to violence against women projects in order to
ensure the continuation of essential services to women and
children experiencing violence, and further calls on the Scottish
Government to continue to develop strategic work on violence
against women, guided by the multi-agency National Group to
Address Violence Against Women and enabled by the Violence
Against Women Team within the Equality Unit at the Scottish
Government, and to commit to changing public attitudes and
behaviours through education initiatives and public awareness
campaigns, alongside ensuring effective legal protection for
women and children experiencing violence.
You voted for them - now make them work for you!
Step 3. Ask your organisation / workplace, Trade Union,
church, associations etc. to sign up to the Statement of Intent
2007.
You
can download a copy here (Word doc) . For further information
on The Statement of Intent please click here or contact Sonia
Leal, Communications Officer, Zero Tolerance - 0131 624 8955.
Thank you.
RESPECT YOURSELF RESPECT OTHERS RESPECT DIFFERENCE
Sonia Leal
Fundraising Events and Communications Officer
The Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust
11 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SB
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