1 in 10 Campaign

‘Each year, around 1 in 10 women in Britain experience rape or other violence. One in four local authorities leave female victims of violence without the specialised support they need’. Ethnic minority women are especially badly affected.

This is the shocking message for International Women’s Day for Amnesty International UK’s campaign on violence against women.

If you go to Map of Gaps, you can see which services are missing in your local area and email your MP, asking them to do something to about it. Further information can also be found here

Every year (and sometimes on specific occasions), I post a poem I had written several years, well knowing that words are never enough and sometimes it is just too late. The poem is reproduced below:

If only we had known
The first time it happened
She wore dark glasses, wept all day
Hormones, we sniggered

The second time it happened
Walked into a wall she said
Alcohol, we smugly declared
Signed her cast, wished her well

The third time it happened
Fell down the stairs she said
And wouldn’t smile
Lover’s tiff, we winked

The fourth time it happened
A bee stung her she said
Frolicking in the park, we laughed
The fifth time it happened

She didn’t come in
We heard she was broken
Like a toy
Which no-one could
Ever
Put back together again

If only
We had known
We cried

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