Pushing Daisies: Anna Friel On Domestic Violence
Don’t be too alarmed by this photo. It’s just make-up, dearies…and it’s part of the campaign against domestic violence, a cause Anna Friel is supporting in aid of Womensaid.Org.UK. You can read more about it here.
The new Women’s Aid campaign, showing celebrities made up to look as though they have been battered, literally hits you in face. Honor Blackman with her eye bruised and bloodied. Fiona Bruce with her mouth puffed up and swollen.
It says, loud and clear, that domestic violence can happen to anyone. Even the rich, powerful and famous can fall victim to a man’s fist.
Even though 570,000 women report incidents of domestic violence to the police annually, it is reckoned some 60 per cent of cases go unreported. That’s a damning statistic of which we should all be ashamed.
So what can we do? For a start, support Women’s Aid with the funds they urgently need to ensure that there is always someone at the end of a phone who will listen, and a place for women in trouble to go with their children.
Raise the issue when and where you can, and, if you suspect that a friend or relative of yours is suffering, ask her and see if you can help.
We will only combat this by speaking out and confronting the facts.
Until we do, another two women will carry on dying every week, as what we like to call our civilised society continues to turn its face the other way.
Anna Friel, WomensAid UK, Domestic Violence
February 18th, 2008 at 9:23 am
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