{"id":4896,"date":"2021-03-25T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2021-03-25T18:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:58:43","slug":"soroptimists-lobbying-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/2021\/03\/25\/soroptimists-lobbying-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists lobbying Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Violence against Women<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2021\/03\/Global-voice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4897\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2021\/03\/Global-voice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2021\/03\/Global-voice.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2021\/03\/Global-voice-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Violence against women is endemic in the UK and across the world. Tragic events recently must be the beginning of the conversation about women\u2019s safety and right to live in a world free from the fear of violence, harassment and abuse.<\/p>\n<h4>Active lobbying<\/h4>\n<p>SI Winchester &amp; District club has been lobbying local MPs over the last three months as the Domestic Abuse Bill has been going through the House of Lords and Parliament. Members of the club and in the region\u00a0 made contact with Baronesses in the House of Lords, with women\u2019s interests in their portfolio, and have lobbied on topics such as non-fatal strangulation and coercive control issues in domestic abuse situations. We have had many messages of support and positive replies.<\/p>\n<p>The Government has also reopened their nationwide Call for Evidence to inform their next Tackling Violence against Women and Girls Strategy. This Call for Evidence would like to hear the views of as many individuals as possible who have either lived experience of the issue, or expertise in working with victims and survivors and providing services. The survey closes at 11.45pm on 26 March 2021 and can be accessed here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/violence-against-women-and-girls-vawg-call-for-evidence\">www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/violence-against-women-and-girls-vawg-call-for-evidence<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Commission on the Status of Women<\/h4>\n<p>This week and next there are over 130 members \u2018attending virtually in New York\u2019 the Commission on the Status of Women 15-26 March\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/2021\/commission-on-the-status-of-women-65-read-our-blogs\/\">Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)<\/a> Altogether there are over 25,000 activists registered. This is a wonderful opportunity to network, listen to other people\u2019s perspectives and to influence the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>There was a very relevant speaker at our region meeting on 13 March from the campaign officer of Plan International, with whom we work closely as we have the same objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Rubie Harrington presented the grassroots youth campaign\u00a0 #CrimeNotCompliment. This was recently started by two sisters in a bid to make public sexual harassment a crime <a href=\"https:\/\/plan-uk.org\/act-for-girls\/crime-not-compliment\">Crime not Compliment | Plan International UK (plan-uk.org)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Region President Julie Blackwell said, \u2018In view of recent events (Sarah Everard murder) this was a very timely presentation and as Sorptimists we support the view to make our streets safer for women and girls. Integral to this is also to educate men and boys into respecting women and girls and their space.<\/p>\n<p>Members have written to their local MPs about this situation and asked local councils what they plan to do about the safety of the streets in their towns.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence against Women Violence against women is endemic in the UK and across the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":4897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Soroptimists lobbying Government | News | Blog | Events | SI Winchester and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Winchester and District : Blog &amp; News : Soroptimists lobbying Government : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Winchester and District . 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