Many local authorities will use ungendered language, but given the predominant “male violence” narrative, ungendered language may not be enough to convince a man he’s in the right place.

Gage claimed the witch trials were a way that religion was used to oppress women. [However] a sizable proportion of victims of the witch trials were men.

There is social power, there is structural power, and there is physical power. What women have in our society is the power of the state behind them, and men do not. Men only have that physical power, and most men don’t want to use it

The campaign begins with a focus on the Northern Ireland Executive’s recent call for views on the development of a specific strategy to tackle violence against women and girls. We are calling on the Executive to complement this work with a male victims strategy.