{"id":573,"date":"2017-02-22T19:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/?p=573"},"modified":"2017-02-22T19:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:46:11","slug":"have-you-written-to-your-mp-two-days-left-follow-emmas-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/2017\/02\/22\/have-you-written-to-your-mp-two-days-left-follow-emmas-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Have YOU!!!?? written to your MP?    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On average, two women in England and Wales are killed every week by a current or former male partner and 85,000 women are raped and more than 400,000 sexually assaulted each year.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"question body-el-question standard-body-el-question anim-in-view\">Read Watson&#8217;s letter in full below:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Dear Member of Parliament,<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;I am writing today to urge you to attend the Report and Third Reading of the Istanbul Convention Bill in Westminster, this Friday 24th February.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;I understand that a minimum of 100 MPs need to show up to support the bill again to ensure it progresses to the next stage.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;No woman should have to live with violence and abuse, yet a startlingly high number of British women will experience this in their lifetime. Despite important progress being made in recent years, violence against women still exists in every community in the United Kingdom. According to Women&#8217;s Aid, an estimated 1.2 million women experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales in the last year alone. It should not be this common or this high, indeed, it should not happen at all.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;There is a real chance the Istanbul Convention could change this. It&#8217;s the first international treaty to specifically tackle violence and abuse against women and girls. It sets legally binding standards for addressing all forms of violence against women \u2013 physical, sexual, emotional or financial \u2013 as well as stalking, forced marriage and female genital mutilation. It recognises violence against women comes in different forms and manifestations, and requires a comprehensive and integrated response.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Four years ago, the UK Government signed this historic Convention, signaling its commitment, but without its ratification, the Convention is just a piece of paper.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;You have a unique opportunity to play a part in ending gender-based violence in our country. I assure you people all over the UK will be grateful to you if you do, because it affects everyone that comes into contact with it. Please be one of the 100 we need to be present on Friday, and take a principled stand on this urgent issue.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Yours sincerely,<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Emma Watson&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Watson has written a powerful letter urging the government to ratify the Istanbul Convention&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Have YOU!!!?? written to your MP?  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