Females: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 20th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that tackling violence against women and girls remains a priority for his Department.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 30th November 2020

Tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a core part of this Government's mission and we remain steadfast in our commitment to this agenda. This work is more important than ever, as COVID-19 has intensified the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence (GBV).

We are scaling up our investments in VAWG, including through the launch early next year of a new £67.5 million seven-year programme to scale up effective interventions to prevent VAWG. We are also making the biggest single investment worldwide to date by any international donor to end FGM (£50 million). Next year the UK will take up Presidency of the G7 and we are co-leading the global Generation Equality Action Coalition on GBV. We are using these opportunities to rally the international community to do more to end VAWG.

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