Croydon Council begins its 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women and Girls on Tuesday with a community awareness walk, beginning at 3.30pm outside Marks and Spencer on North End.
The 16 Days is a global campaign calling for the prevention and elimination of gender-based violence.
Working with the Croydon VAWG Network and the Global Majority Heritage Domestic Abuse Partnership, the council walk aims to stand in solidarity with survivors and reaffirm Croydon’s commitment to ending VAWG.
A school choir will open the event, which will finish at Queens Gardens with the unveiling of a memorial bench dedicated to those who have lost their lives to domestic abuse and violence. Participants are invited to the Town Hall for refreshments, a second choir performance and speeches.
On Thursday, November 27, Croydon hosts its first VAWG Conference with a Domestic Abuse Related Death Thematic Review, speakers from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s Office and Respect, and afternoon workshops.
Throughout the 16 Days, organisations and residents can access a wide range of free workshops and training, covering topics such as technology-facilitated abuse, child-to-parent abuse, Domestic Abuse Protection Orders, misogyny and supporting diverse communities.
The full listing of events can be found here.
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Apparently it’s fair game against men. Innocent men are allowed to be attacked murdered etc this rhetoric pushed on boys and men that they are disposable and not valued is awful. Stop with the women and children trope violence against people. Men are still disposable
Approximately 90% of the people murdered in domestic incidents are women.
Approximately 90% of the murderers are men.
And women shouldn’t be concerned for their safety, nor campaign to raise awareness of the asymmetry in the risks they face?
From their husbands, sons, partners and lovers?
Perhaps you’d benefit from less time on Andrew Tate’s incel channels and a bit more discussing it with the women in your life? If there are any…