Rape, sexual assault and domestic abuse – these are just some of the reasons why hundreds of women in the West Country are taking part in 16 days of action to take gender-based violence seriously.
A woman is killed by a man every three days in the UK.
Plymouth’s most common crimes last year were violence and sexual offences with 8,841 offences recorded. According to the Women’s centre for Cornwall last year around 5,900 women were raped or sexually assaulted in Cornwall and around 14,700 women experienced domestic abuse.