April 2024
Ending Violence against women and girls: No more ‘table scraps’ - systemic change is needed Welcome. We are the women’s equality party and we are standing here tonight to honour the names of women and girls, all women and girls, everywhere, who have been subject to violence at the hands of men. We meet here usually with members of the Lib Dem councillors who have been running the ‘white ribbon campaign’ to remind us of the reality of violence against women and girls, and to do everything in our collective power to expose it and draw it to an end. Thank you for joining us, and if you were wandering past and wondered what we were doing here, then thank you for stopping and listening in. We’ve been meeting here by the Amelie de la Grange memorial bench for a couple of years now. Amelie, as you may recall, was a French exchange student walking home one night. She was murdered by a stranger, a man called Levi Bellfield who followed her across Twickenham Green and killed her. He did no