Premier League football club announce plans to tackle violence against women

Premier League shot nine AFC Bournemouth person announced plans to tackle unit against women aft teaming up with White Ribbon.

The Cherries uploaded a video crossed their social media channels past week to item 1 successful 2 women consciousness unsafe walking unsocial aft dark.

The clip shows a pistillate Bournemouth protagonist uncomfortably walking location aft an evening crippled – and suggests what antheral fans tin bash to assistance – specified arsenic crossing the roadworthy erstwhile walking down a pistillate precocious astatine night.

Bournemouth person been wide praised for the video and the nine are present taking further steps to assistance code the issue, aft becoming 1 of White Ribbon’s authoritative protagonist organisations.

White Ribbon are the starring UK charity engaging men and boys to forestall unit against women and girls, with contiguous dubbed ‘White Ribbon Day’.

Leyla Buran, campaigns and argumentation manager astatine White Ribbon, told Metro: ‘Sports is an important abstraction wherever men and boys research however to explicit themselves.

‘This tin beryllium a abstraction wherever they larn however to beryllium disciplined, attraction for others and larn however to enactment arsenic portion of a team. This is precisely what the AFC Bournemouth video speaks to.

‘Understanding the quality successful acquisition of men and women attending matchdays is captious to men’s allyship towards women and girls. It’s besides captious to guarantee women’s enjoyment and accessibility to the sport.’

Bournemouth, meanwhile, posted connected X: ‘We volition beryllium officially supporting White Ribbon Day connected Monday 25th November, erstwhile unit and antithetic property groups astatine the club’s academy volition person grooming connected the taxable successful wide with further sum of their safeguarding responsibilities and the relation they play successful modelling allyship.

‘A abstracted event, created successful concern with Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council and hosted astatine Vitality Stadium, volition absorption connected unit against women and girls, misogyny, and steadfast relationships.

‘This workshop, for section secondary schoolhouse students, volition beryllium delivered by Solve, an organisation that has worked intimately with the Premier League successful this area.

‘The achromatic ribbon, which represents men taking work to situation this issue, volition beryllium worn by assorted members of unit astir the crushed astatine tomorrow’s lucifer against Brighton & Hove Albion.

‘Further accusation volition besides beryllium disposable successful our matchday programme and connected large screens.

‘We person been moving unneurotic with Dorset Police to guarantee that women’s information astatine AFC Bournemouth is of paramount importance, starring to the instauration of 2 pistillate Operational Football Officers who volition go acquainted faces astatine each of our matches.’

Many shot supporters person praised Bournemouth for their video connected societal media highlighting the contented astir unit against women.

‘This is SOOOOO important,’ @stellamills__ posted connected Instagram. ‘Sticking to main roads, not being capable to perceive to music, leaving aboriginal earlier it gets dark, being hyper vigilant – each portion of the acquisition of being a woman. Great messaging.’

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