Category: Newyddion

The ‘Restoring the Balance’ campaign aims to stop stalkers being able to use the civil courts system to abuse their victims.  As part of this, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, who run the National Stalking Helpline, are currently carrying out research on the experience of stalking victims who have been subjected to vexatious complaints (false accusations) […]

The theme for International Women’s Day 2017 is #BeBoldforChange. We hear from one woman who has taken the bold step to tell her story, to influence change and speak out about her experience of violence and abuse. My Story I first used Welsh Women’s Aid in 2010 after fleeing a violent and controlling relationship. I […]

International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the strengths and achievements of women and girls and of the women’s movement across the globe. But it must also be a time to reflect on how far we still have to go, and the actions we can take, to achieve equality and the liberation from oppression […]

Nationwide Wales and the Border branches have raised £2514 for Welsh Women’s Aid during their Welsh Women’s Aid week in January 2017, which coincided with Welsh Women’s Aid’s awareness raising event on St Dwynwen’s Day. Eleri Butler, CEO of Welsh Women’s Aid, says: “We would like to say a huge thank you to staff at […]

Sponsored by Bethan Jenkins AM and Mark Isherwood AM 7th March 2017, 12.00pm – 13:30pm Seminar Rooms, Pierhead, Cardiff Bay Bethan Jenkins AM and Mark Isherwood AM, Co-chairs of the Cross Party Group on Violence against Women and Children, are delighted to invite you the meeting on 7th March 2017. ‘Education & prevention for children […]

For many, Valentine’s Day is a time to enjoy loving relationships, but for thousands of women and children across Wales, this Valentine’s Day will be spent just like every other day of the year, living in relationships dictated by fear, coercive control and abuse at the hands of their current or ex partner. Some abusers […]

I am a 27 year old woman living in a small village in North Wales with my mum and my younger sister. My dad is in prison because he hurt me, he hurt my sister too. I tried to stop him, I tried to let it be me that he hurt, but he hurt anyway. […]

Welsh Women’s Aid has worked in partnership with NSPCC Cymru, Cardiff University and the office of the Children’s Commissioner to create AGENDA: A Young People’s Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter. This is an online resource developed by children and young people for children and young people (aged 11-18) on how they can safely and […]

Eleri Bulter, Chief Executive of Welsh Women’s Aid, said: It’s fantastic to see a clear commitment from Parliament today to move forward on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. This takes us one step closer towards a legally binding, comprehensive and coordinated approach to addressing all forms of violence against women. This is a historic […]

Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:35 From 25 November to 10 December, the 16 Days of Activism for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. This year, we are hearing from two women in Wales about how violence against women has […]

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:35 Dear Members of Parliament, All of us have the right to live free from violence and abuse. Yet violence against women taints all of our communities throughout the United Kingdom; it is rife in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Available data for 2015 shows that 123 women in the […]

25th November has been marked by women’s activists and organizations since 1981 as a day of protest to end violence against women. Also known as White Ribbon Day, on 6th December 1989, Marc Lépine shot 14 female students dead and injured another 10 at the University of Montreal, Canada claiming he was ‘fighting feminism’. This […]

Welsh Women’s Aid is incredibly proud that our team behind delivery of the Live Fear Free Helpline in Wales have won the UK Helplines Partnership 2016 Impact Award. The Impact Award is “for a helpline who has contributed to the sector in an amazing way and is an example to others”. In particular, partnership working […]

Are you interested in holding the state to account to stop violence against women and girls? Please join us to welcome the Centre for Women’s Justice to Wales and explore what we can do together to use the law to challenge state failures around violence against women. Click here to see full details of the […]

On 3 November 2016 the Live Fear Free Helpline will celebrate its rebranding to provide support to anyone affected by domestic abuse, sexual violence and other forms of violence against women, and launch its new webchat service, with an event at The Millennium Centre, Cardiff between 11.30am to 1.00pm. Speakers will include Carl Sargeant AM, […]

At Welsh Women’s Aid our thoughts are with the young woman in this case, who has suffered the ordeal of a retrial and the psychological trauma associated with giving evidence in a rape case. The consequences of reporting rape and of going through the criminal justice system are significant. There are still widespread assumptions, judgements […]