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Tackling Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG)

The term VAWG covers a range of crimes, the common theme is that they disproportionately affect women and girls. Although we use the term ‘violence against women and girls’, our approach refers to all victims of any of these offences.

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Crimes and behaviour covered by the term Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) include:

  • rape and other sexual offences
  • domestic abuse
  • stalking
  • ‘honour’-based abuse (including female genital mutilation forced marriage, and ‘honour’ killings)
  • as well as many others, including offences committed online

We are committed to eradicating all forms of violence against women and girls and have a strong approach to actively pursue violent perpetrators. We want women and girls who live, work and socialise in our communities to feel safe. To achieve this we will be focussing on five key areas:

  1. holding offenders to account
  2. support victims
  3. keeping you safe
  4. our culture
  5. strengthening the system

How we are tackling violence against women and girls

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