These crimes against women are a national emergency.. we must end the violence NOW

The UN's 16 Days of Activism on genderbased violence aims to raise awareness of attacks on women. Labour's Midlothian MP urges fellow MPs to sign a White Ribbon pledge to never commit, condone or stay silent in the face of abuse

- KIRSTY MCNEILL

“WOMEN have always known, because we are taught and told and trained from very early on in our lives, that we are not safe - not on the street, not in the park, not in the club, not in the pool, not on a date.

We learn that our own bodies can be a source of vulnerability or an object over which other people feel entitled to ownership and control. For me and for so many of my friends, that is such a fact of life we don't even talk about it until there's another horrific headline about a woman or girl we know who could so easily have been us.

This Labour government won't stand for half the population living like that.