White Ribbon Campaign UK

Links

Take back the tech UK - White Ribbon page

Community Care - for everyone in social care

Rape Crisis - basic information that survivors of sexual violence, friends and family need to access the appropriate services.

Wales Domestic Abuse Helpline - an organisation that supports Women, Children and Men suffering from Domestic Abuse. Recently they have launched the helpline as a 24hr service

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2007
Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls.

Scotland White Ribbon Campaign is now up and launched, and has 20 prominent Scottish men make statements in support of the campaign.

http://www.zerotolerance.org.uk/index.htm

Edinburgh based charity.The Trust which was established in 1995 works mainly in the UK and Europe but also has links with organisations throughout the world. The Trust works with a range of agencies to promote innovative policy and best practice that target the root causes of male violence. Zero Tolerance lobbies governments, commissions research and develops educational intervention and training programmes.

http://www.womensaid.org.uk

The National Domestic Violence charity which is the first point of contact for many women experiencing domestic violence.

http://www.womankind.org.uk/Womankind homepage

Womankind offers secondary schools material for Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship to download, including White Ribbon Campaign Packs. The long-term aim is for the subject of violence against women to become an essential part of every secondary school student's educational experience. WOMANKIND marks the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence by giving vital financial support to 16 women's groups across the African continent, so that they can add their voices to this year's global campaign

http://www.truthaboutrape.co.uk/4598/index.html

The Truth about Rape is a well designed site for women organising around the issue of rape for women who are "tired of violence and tired of rape"

www.jfw.org.uk

Justice For Women
Justice For Women has branches in London and Leeds and works to raise awareness of the injustice women face in the legal system when they fight back against their abusers in self-defence. Justice For Women has worked to free many women from prison who killed their violent male abusers in self-defence and were further abused by the legal system. Much of their work has resulted in legal precedents being set and a higher understanding in the judiciary of how sexual assault and domestic violence affects women and their capacity for fleeing and defending themselves against this terrorism.

www.emmahumphreys.org

Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize Trust
This is a London based organisation who fundraise for an annual prize for a woman whose work has contributed to ending male violence against women.

www.ldnfeministnetwork.ik.com

London Feminist Network
This organisation runs an annual Reclaim The Night march, in partnership with several other organisations, to protest at the number of rapes and falling conviction rate and to demand the right for women to live safely free from fear of male violence. This is held annually in central London on 25th November - International Day to End Violence Against Women. The march is women-only and ends with a rally with speakers and other events at which men are welcome.

http://www.nspcc.org.uk

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
Information on child abuse in Europe - laws, policies and practices.

http://www.gmb.org.uk
Trades Union (GMB) - United Kingdom
General, Municipal & Boilermakers
Combating Domestic Violence Through the Workplace

Spikey - The Anti Drink Spiking Stopper. UK based Spikey offers information about spiked drinks for the presence of drugs used in drink spiking to stop sexual abuse, drug rape, date rape drugs, date rape, date rape drug and illicit substances like Rohypnol, GHB, more alcohol from being spiked in pubs, bars and at parties as a drink spike detector.

Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum - 0115 9623237
NDVF organises seminars and community awareness activities and events (including WRC), training on domestic violence issues and delivers projects to children and young people about domestic violence, healthy relationships and gender equality.

Training

http://www.womankind.org.uk/

Womankind has developed an excellent programme and sets of materials and built up support networks to work with secondary school students in a number of schools with varying profiles to prove that work to prevent violence against women is effective and beneficial not only for women but for the whole community

http://www.respect.uk.net/

Respect is a practioners network for those involved in working with violence perpetrators

http://www.kpta.co.uk/

Kennedy Potts Associates are specialist trainers with many years experience in the field of working with perpetrators of domestic violence.

http://www.dvip.org/

DVIP is a voluntary sector project and charity which was set up in 1991. DVIP's main aim is to increase the safety of women and children who experience domestic violence by providing a range of diverse services challenging men, supporting women, working in partnership, influencing policy and campaigning for change.

Domestic Violence Intervention Project

http://www.emergedv.com/training.html

Emerge is a US based training agency. The site offers training materials for sale, lists the range of courses offered, definitions of domestic violence, information for victims, and a links page to other US based agencies.

Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum - 0115 9623237
NDVF has a portfolio of training courses on a range of domestic violence issues, including: Supporting Women & Children, Safequarding Children, Working with Male Perpetrators, Same Sex Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence & Disability, Domestic Violence & Race Awareness, Domestic Violence & Prostitution, Working with Children & Young People, Working with Young Parents and Working with Men who Experience Domestic Violence.

Damian Carnell (Trainer and Consultant on domestic violence work with men and young people) damian.carnell@ntlworld.com 0115 9603005
Provides training and consultancy work on the issues of male perpetrators and also male survivors of domestic violence as well as working with young people about non-abusive relationships and gender repsect. Damian has worked in the domestic violence sector since 1993 and is a member of Respect.

Respect Not Fear - site produced in consultation with young people in Nottinghamshire

International

Pakistan White Ribbon Campaign

http://www.whiteribbon.com
The large Canadian based site which in 1991 founded the white ribbon movement for men taking action about male violence

www.whiteribbon.at
The Austrian white ribbon campaign is very active (site in German)

A Meeting between Austria White Ribbon Campaign and UK WRC

http://www.europrofem.org/

The website of the European pro feminist men's network.Contacts, Bibliography, Activities list, Email discussion list. Not regularly updated, as EU funds to keep it updated ceased in 2002

http://www.ffasa.org/

An Australian site of sport fans (football fans opposed to sexaul assault) who have an email list updating people of the progress of their campaign. Their national day of change and learning would include awareness education, the wearing of armbands by football players, one minutes silence, and a donation of proceeds to refuges and campaigning organisations.

US Based Organisations

http://www.menstoppingviolence.org

A US based organisation working in co-operation with local organisations to combat violence

http://endabuse.org

US Based coalition which has some interesting ads on the theme "coaching Boys into Men"

http://www.mencanstoprape.org

Men Can Stop Rape (formerly Men's Rape Prevention Project) empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of men's violence. Through awareness-to-action education and community organizing, we promote gender equity and build men's capacity to be strong without being violent.

http://www.interactivetheatre.org/mav

he Men Against Violence Webring give examples of how men can get involved in the struggle to end rape and sexual assault. Sites are by men and women who recognize that rape and sexual assault are not merely a 'Woman's Issue' but everyone's issue. Men are perpetrators, survivors, and friends of survivors, and need to get involved.

http://www.umaine.edu/maav/

Male Athletes against Violence based at the University of Maine has a couple of American football based downloadable posters.

http://www.menweb.org/dvfacts.htm

A strange US based site claiming to contradict and deny the normal evidence of domestic violence. Interesting to see

Training

International

US Based Organisations

Further Reading

White Ribbon Campaign