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GPW Leadership Responses GPW Leadership responses 1. Domestic Violence: 3 1. Shahrar Ali 3 1. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 3 1. Rosi Sexton 4 1. Andrea Carey Fuller 4 1. Amelia Womack 4 2. Rape: 6 2. Shahrar Ali 6 2. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 6 2. Rosi Sexton 6 2. Andrea Carey Fuller 7 2. Amelia Womack 7 3. Triple whammy: 8 3. Shahrar Ali 8 3. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 8 3. Rosi Sexton 9 3. Andrea Carey Fuller 9 3. Amelia Womack 10 4. Domestic workers: 11 4. Shahrar Ali 11 4. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 11 4. Rosi Sexton 11 4. Andrea Carey Fuller 12 4. Amelia Womack 12 5. Pensions: 13 5. Shahrar Ali 13 5. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 13 5. Rosi Sexton 13 5. Andrea Carey Fuller 13 5. Amelia Womack 14 2020-08-03_GPW Leadership responses Page 1 of 20 6. Political discourse: 15 6. Shahrar Ali 15 6. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 15 6. Rosi Sexton 15 6. Andrea Carey Fuller 16 6. Amelia Womack 16 7. Party Governance & Leadership: 17 7. Shahrar Ali 17 7. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 17 7. Rosi Sexton 17 7. Andrea Carey Fuller 17 7. Amelia Womack 18 8. Literature Inspiration: 19 8. Shahrar Ali 19 8. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley 19 8. Rosi Sexton 19 8. Andrea Carey Fuller 19 8. Amelia Womack 19 Individual responses to questions are presented in alphabetical order; leadership candidates (surname first) Shahrar Ali, Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley, Rosi Sexton, followed by deputy leadership candidates (surname first) Andrea Carey Fuller, Amelia Womack. 2020-08-03_GPW Leadership responses Page 2 of 20 1. Domestic Violence: In September 2019, domestic murders reached a very worrying 5 year high. The pandemic has made the situation even worse. During the first month after the lockdown began in late March, sixteen women and girls were killed in suspected domestic homicides — more than triple the number from the same period in 2019. At least 10 more have died in the two months since then. What should the government do to tackle male violence against women? 1. Shahrar Ali The first step in tackling this epidemic of domestic violence against women is to ensure that the provision is there to ensure women and their children can access services to escape violent relationships. Council funding for women’s refuges has been hit by around £8M in cuts over the past decade. This must immediately be reversed and funded sustainably. Women must be supported in breaking free from cycles of abuse and that means the ability to access permanent safe housing to rebuild their lives. 1. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley The levels of domestic violence and murders are totally unacceptable and have received far too little priority compared with other forms of violence in terms of enforcement, prevention and wider support services. Even worse, in recent times squeezed police resources have been diverted from violence against women into street violence against young people in particular, and Sian has seen for herself in her work on the London Assembly the huge caseloads officers, detectives and victim support teams have had to face. On top of this, refuges and support services have been squeezed by austerity cuts, which have particularly affected dedicated services for women from different cultural and religious groups, which evidence shows can prove disastrous for disclosure and support-seeking if services are merged into centralised generic provision. Lockdown appears to have resulted in both a rise in domestic violence, including against young people and other family members, and a reduction in people seeking help, and everyone involved in this work is expecting that as restrictions are relaxed there will be a big rise in survivors and victims seeking to escape. This is an emerging crisis that needs planning for and questions asked by every Green in elected positions and, in the wider party, we can be allies in showing our support for the many organisations who are highlighting the need for more funding for support services, housing options and justice. In the longer term, campaigns arguing for more resources to be put into prevention and support have had some success in the establishment of Violence Reduction Units in many areas, including in London where violence against women and domestic violence is a clear focus of the new VRU’s strategy, and where there is also a dedicated Victim’s Commissioner who comes from a background working in women’s support services. Every one of these units needs more support and more funding from Government and Police and Crime Commissioners to be effective, and so that more independent services to break this cycle of neglect can be commissioned and given long-term security in their work. 2020-08-03_GPW Leadership responses Page 3 of 20 1. Rosi Sexton Domestic abuse is an issue that I'm passionate about. The thought of so many women being trapped at home with an abuser during lockdown was really worrying, and it's something that I've been working hard to raise as a council priority. I've been following the progress of the (long overdue) Domestic Abuse Bill, and although it promises some improvement on the current situation, there are still some large gaps in the provision. In particular, there are still no measures to protect migrant women who have "no recourse to public funds". The bill could also go further to protect women in the workplace, and in family courts (there is real concern that the family court process can be used by abusers to continue controlling and abusing their victim). The government also needs to do more to ensure that victims of domestic abuse are financially able to leave their abuser, and that those who are marginalised (for example migrants or sex workers) are able to seek help without fear. 1. Andrea Carey Fuller I fully support the actions set out in the Woman's Place UK Manifesto: i) Recognise prostitution as sexually abusive exploitation which is harmful to all women and girls. ii) Implement the abolitionist model, criminalising those who exploit prostituted people (including pimps and sex buyers) and decriminalising the prostituted, providing practical and psychological exiting support. iii) Ratify the Istanbul Convention. (The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and ​ combating violence against women and domestic violence) iv) Sustainable investment from national government, proportionate to demand, to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG), including single-sex support services, and specialist independent services run by and for women, BME women, migrant women, disabled women, lesbians, and services tackling FGM and other harmful practices. v) Highlight and tackle the harms of pornography including the exploitation of women in its production and the hostile culture it creates for all women and girls in society. vi) Legislate to protect women and girls from the impact of porn culture on their lives, including clear penalties for image-based sexual abuse. End ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ for abused migrant women; extend the Domestic Violence Rule and the Destitution and Domestic Violence Concession. 1. Amelia Womack As a domestic violence survivor, I am passionate about ending violence against women. I have worked to make misogyny a hate crime using petitioning and lobbying as well as working cross party to get the policy on the agenda in parliament. This policy will help ensure misogynistic behaviour is addressed by law before a woman experiences violence. 2020-08-03_GPW Leadership responses Page 4 of 20 Austerity has stripped away much local support for survivors, so I have also worked cross party to demand increased council funding for local refuges and support, and been a committed anti-austerity campaigner as deputy leader as well as co-chair of the People’s Assembly. 2020-08-03_GPW Leadership responses Page 5 of 20 2. Rape: Recent research has shown that rape prosecution rates are extremely low, with The Victims Commissioner for England and Wales - Vera Baird recently pointing to a “catastrophic” decline in rape prosecutions, and warning that we are facing ‘the decriminalisation of rape’. This would also lead to more rapes, due to men feeling they can act with impunity. The facts: roughly 80,000 women are raped every year in this country. The number of prosecutions was less than 5% and has now fallen by 50%. How can the effective decriminilisation of rape (1.4% convicton rate) be reversed? 2. Shahrar Ali Logging misogyny as a hate crime will help the CPS build profiles of repeat offenders and better be able to map escalating offending profiles and take action on the basis of aggravation and build cases on merit. Women are doubly victimised under a system struggling under decades of cuts where police referrals to the CPS have dropped by 23%. Offenders are emboldened with every not guilty verdict and victims are left with the physical and psychological scars of these abhorrent crimes feeling they, not their attackers, have been put on trial. We have to turn that culture around. 2. Sian Berry & Jonathan Bartley Confidence in the police and criminal justice system over rape and sexual violence is at a catastrophic low. Compounding the same squeeze on resources and support services as we have seen in domestic violence, criminal justice in this area has suffered huge setbacks resulting from mishandled cases and struggles over the use and collection of digital evidence. With privacy campaigners, we have stood against the use of ‘digital strip searches’ that leave survivors of rape facing unconcionable intrusion into every aspect of their private lives by police and defence teams, and prosecutors have become incredibly cautious about proceeding in cases such that the phrase “decriminalisation of rape” is an appropriate description of the current situation.
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