‘Measuring the impact of cuts in public expenditure on the provision of services to prevent violence against women and girls’ was published in February 2012.
In January 2012, a jury in Derby found three men guilty of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation in the first criminal conviction in Britain for this offence.
On 24 January 2012, End Violence Against Women, Object, Equality Now and Eaves gave oral evidence to the Leveson Inquiry about the media’s biased and prejudicial treatment of women.
In December 2011, the NUS published ‘No Place for Hate – Hate crimes and incidents in further and higher education: disability’.
On 8 December 2011, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke announced that people who murder disabled or transgender people in hate crime attacks will face life sentences with a starting point of 30 years.
On 25 November 2011, the coalition government launched a paper outlining their ambition and guiding principles to tackle violence against women and girls.
In November 2011, the OSCE ODIHR published the 2010 edition of ‘Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region – Incidents and Responses’.
On 31 October 2011, the EHRC published ‘Public authority commitment and action to eliminate targeted harassment and violence’.
In October 2011, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published ‘Gender-based violence against women – an EU-wide survey’.
In 2011, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) published ‘Barometer: National Action Plans on Violence against Women in the EU’.
