mediadiversified.org
They did this by campaigning to abolish policies which disallowed these women from accessing public funds. Following SBS’s action, the Home Office launched the ‘Sojourner Project’ to assist victims of domestic violence who have fled abusive relationships.
The SBS are exceptional in representing women who are doubly marginalised, by people within their ethnic communities as well as those outside of that group.Organisations such as SBS are slowly losing funds and closing down due to government cuts. However, parents do not face cut-backs, neither can we be silenced.
So, I am letting you know that is not right to hit women. It is not right to threaten or to force yourself on a woman and it is not right to inflict verbal or emotional abuse on her. It is not right to take her money. You must remember this when you turn sixteen and start experimenting with different media and music. You must remember this when you make new friends so that you can pass this message onto them.
If one woman’s convictions led her to fight against her own arranged marriage so that she can now take on powerful institutions to bring about change other like her, then my convictions can influence you not to perpetrate in domestic violence. If one voice made a difference then, this voice and other mothers’ voices can also effect a gradual change, one boy at a time.
I love you,
Mum.
by Antionette Scott
15