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Women's Resource Centre 2008 Briefing on violence against women, health and the women's voluntary and community sector
(downloads a .pdf)
The Cost of Domestic Violence, Sylvia Walby (University of Leeds) 2004 (downloads a .pdf)
Young peoples attitudes towards gendered violence:
Women's Aid Domestic Violence Fact sheet
Men Who Buy Sex - Link to article and report on Eaves and PRE's report on men who use prostitutes
COUNCIL AWARDED WHITE RIBBON PARTNERSHIP AWARD
A press release from Cheshire West and Cheshire Council reads:
Cheshire West and Chester Council has been awarded the nationally recognised White Ribbon Partnership Award from the White Ribbon Campaign UK for its multi-agency partnership approach to tackling domestic abuse.
Working in partnership with public, private, community, voluntary and faith sectors the award was granted to the authority’s Cheshire West Together project for its approach to increasing awareness of domestic abuse and support to families affected by domestic abuse. In the spirit of embracing new technologies, a new development is that you can now Pledge by text. To do so, Text wrc to 78866Pledges now accepted via text messaging!


45% of UK women have experienced some form of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.