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Meet Claire: One of our new and fantastic stop champions
Claire Askew I decided I wanted to become a Stop Champion after getting increasingly interested and involved in my local feminist community. I found myself talking and writing a lot about the everyday injustices happening to women all around…
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Combating violence, abuse and harassment: Glasgow University students Get Savi
We simply couldn’t have achieved our successes without it. Local authority support and women’s aid
The impact of local authority decisions on women’s aid
Local authority elections 3rd of May
Getting Savi: Change is always delivered in little steps
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10 things you can do
There's strength in numbers. Join with the many thousands of people in Scotland who want to take action. Go to the 10 things you can do page and pledge to do one thing to stop domestic abuse.
What is domestic abuse?
Your confidence goes, and the thing is it doesn't start, it's a gradual thing that grinds you away and grinds you away until there's nothing left.
Domestic abuse is persistent and controlling behaviour by a partner or ex-partner which causes physical, sexual and/or emotional harm. It often gets worse over time. It is very common. In most cases, it is experienced by women and children and is perpetrated by men. More about domestic abuse