Stop Violence Against Women

Amnesty's Campaign

Amnesty's campaign to stop violence against women, launched in March 2004, is a contribution to the efforts of women's rights movements around the world. Amnesty collaborates with women's rights activists and groups who are working to expose and redress forms of violence. We investigate and expose acts of violence against women and demand that these violations are acknowledged, publicly condemned and redressed.

Our campaign is designed to mobilise both men and women to counter violence and to use the power and persuasion of the human rights framework to stop violence against women.

Amnesty's Campaign Goals

The UK section of Amnesty International has specific aims in this campaign:

• Campaigning for a fully-funded and properly resourced UK-wide strategy to end violence against women in all its forms.
• To hold governments accountable for violence against women occurring within their territories, either by state actors or non-state actors, through local, national, and international mechanisms
• To challenge the attitudes that provoke and sustain the normalisation and acceptance of violence against women in the UK
• To profile the work of women human rights defenders at the forefront of the struggle to end violence against women
• All of our campaigning to achieve the above objectives will be based around the themes of violence against women in the family and violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situations.

Find out more

See our diary pages for the next meeting on the campaign or see the campaign homepage on amnesty.org.uk for more details.