Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust
Through promoting innovative policy and practice Zero Tolerance Trust tackle the root causes of male violence against women and children.
The Trust are inspired by a vision of the world without male violence against women and children. We use a primary prevention approach to challenging
society’s attitudes and values and the structures that sustain inequality and male violence against women & children. We want social and cultural change that eradicates gender-based violence.
The Woman’s Coalition
The Trust is one of five organisations that form the Women's Coalition in Scotland:
Zero Tolerance (www.zerotolerance.org.uk),
Scottish Women’s Aid (www.scottishwomensaid.co.uk),
Rape Crisis Scotland (www.rapecrisisscotland.org),
Engender (www.engender.org.uk)
and The Women’s Support Project (www.womenssupportproject.co.uk).
The Women's Coalition are urging the new Scottish Government to pledge its commitment to addressing violence against women over the next four years.
‘Online government ‘has enabled a new wave of activism' says Sonia Leal of ZT trust,
‘Campaigning has changed so dramatically in the last decade and with those changes so too we had to adapt. The use of the internet has allowed us to reach a much wider group of activists. We can send out instant mass messages and emails which is so much quicker than phoning round people. Not only can we moblise faster we can also get our message out across the country and abroad.'
Mobilising action around The Statement of Intent in 2007 took one month to organize. Ten years ago it took women 6-8 months to release the original.
A petition has been lodged with the Scottish Parliament in support of the Women' s Coalition Statement of Intent 2007 urging MSP's to commit measures to Tackle Violence Against Women.
If you would like to sign the online petition and encourage the new Scottish Government to make a definite commitment to addressing violence against women then please sign at the link below, closing date is 6th December:
http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=19...
The Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust,
11 Maritime Street,
Edinburgh
EH6 6SB
Tel: +44 (0)131 624 8955
Fax: +44 (0)131 624 8959
Email: info [at] zerotolerance [dot] org [dot] uk