{"id":1547,"date":"2014-03-07T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","slug":"violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/03\/07\/violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence against women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Violence against Women in the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/fra.europa.eu\/en\/press-release\/2014\/violence-against-women-every-day-and-everywhere\">recent survey<\/a> conducted by\u00a0\u00a0the European Union&#8217;s Agency for Fundamental Rights which was published this week, the UK is ranked in fifth place \u2013 below Finland, Sweden, Netherlands and France \u2013 for the highest number of women reporting physical and\/or sexual violence by a male since they were aged fifteen.<\/p>\n<p>More information on this topic \u00a0can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs239\/en\/\">World Health\u00a0Organization website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key charities in the UK who monitor the situation and provide support include: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensaid.org.uk\/\">Women\u2019s Aid<\/a>.\u00a0 Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensaid.org.uk\/page.asp?section=00010001001400130005&amp;sectionTitle=Women%27s+Aid+Annual+Survey\">annual\u00a0survey<\/a> gives data on number of cases dealt with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk\/\">End Violence Against\u00a0Women<\/a> is a national coalition of campaign groups.\u00a0 Its website has events, campaign materials, and news.\u00a0 There are monthly bulletins of new policy developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence against Women in the UK According to a recent survey conducted by\u00a0\u00a0the European Union&#8217;s Agency for Fundamental Rights which was published this week, the UK is ranked in fifth place \u2013 below Finland, Sweden, Netherlands and France \u2013 for the highest number of women reporting physical and\/or sexual violence by a male since they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[234,52,139,243,125,99],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-sociology","tag-criminology","tag-feminism","tag-rape","tag-sociology","tag-violence","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}