Every 2.8 Days in the UK a Man Kills A Woman!

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Every 2.8 Days in the UK a Man Kills A Woman!

October 24th, 2015

Awake Goy

United Kingdom —
In a case of white privilege personified, Oscar Pistorius is kicking
back on his sofa today after serving less than a year in jail for the
murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. ~ Michaela Whitton

Male violence against women is global — and a consequence of inequality. As the U.K. press goes into overdrive over the Pistorius case, the public should be reminded of Britain’s own harrowing figures.

Last week, a serious case review exposed a series of failings by
West Mercia police, children’s services, and mental health teams over
their dealings with pornography- obsessed Jamie Reynolds.

Despite having
been assessed as “a serious risk to others“ and having attacked numerous women previously, Reynolds went on to brutally murder 17-year-old Georgia Williams.

With
the Reynold’s case painting a devastating and all too common picture of
the lack of value placed on women’s lives, government cuts in the U.K.
leave women high and dry. Meanwhile, repeated perpetrators like Reynolds
slip through ever-expanding holes in the net of public services.

Women’s charity, Eaves, reported a 70% increase in demand for their services during the first six months of 2015. One support worker, who goes by Lynne, said:

“So
many services have closed and other services, facing cuts, have to turn
away complex cases that we then pick up.

“Gatekeeping has become ever
more stringent and access to vital services that enable women to access
their rights and facilitate their recovery such as housing, mental
health, legal aid have all but disappeared.

“As a result we have to spend
many more hours advocating for their rights and struggling to find
somewhere to move women on.”

A Fair Deal for Women
is an umbrella group of 11 British women’s rights charities pushing the
government to address policies they claim aggravate existing
inequality. Requesting a national strategy to tackle male violence
against women, stark statistics back up their demands.

‣ 95% of women’s charities are facing cuts

‣ 100 women and 84 children are turned away from shelter every day

‣ 100% of charities that support Black and ethnic minority women are facing cuts

‣ 25% of women’s services are facing closure

The Counting Dead Women
project has gone a step further to shine a light on the thread of
misogyny weaving its way through British culture. The campaign began
highlighting fatal male violence after seven women died in the first
three days of 2012.

Since then, determined to make sure the women are
more than just faceless statistics, the campaign has documented the cases of hundreds of women suspected to have been killed by men during the last three years.

With
most of these murders failing to receive a mention from national media,
the figures released by the campaign should shock us all: 97 women in the U.K. have been killed by men this year — that’s one every 2.8 days.

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October 21, 2015 – KnowTheLies