Isabelle Younane, head of external affairs at Women\u2019s Aid, comments: \u00a0<\/strong> \u201cThe data reinforces that which we know to be true \u2013 women are most likely to be killed by a current or former partner, with the murder most often taking place in the home. The report also highlights that the end of a relationship is often the most dangerous time for a woman, working instead as a trigger for violent and controlling men. The ongoing, high demand for refuge spaces and other frontline services should be seen as a dire call to action for our government to invest more and save lives.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMore must be done to ensure that women and children are safe. We need to take a whole society approach to tackle the misogyny and sexism that underpin VAWG, from our schools, through to fixing our broken justice system. We must come together to make sure that women are believed when reporting abuse, but also, that they are kept safe from those seeking to cause them harm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Women’s Aid responds to the new Femicide Census report Isabelle Younane, head of external affairs at Women\u2019s Aid, comments: \u00a0 \u201cThe new Femicide Census report makes for incredibly disturbing and sombre reading. Most tragically, it demonstrates that we continue to live in a world where violence against women and girls (VAWG) is prevalent, and where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":48511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u201cThe new Femicide Census report makes for incredibly disturbing and sombre reading. Most tragically, it demonstrates that we continue to live in a world where violence against women and girls (VAWG) is prevalent, and where the system continuously fails to keep women and children safe from harm, leading to deadly consequences. The new data shows that a staggering 122 women were killed by men in the UK in 2022 \u2013 figures that remain shockingly consistent year on year.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n