{"id":543811,"date":"2021-03-15T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=543811"},"modified":"2021-03-15T00:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:13:37","slug":"uk-pm-vows-to-tackle-violence-against-women-as-outrage-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/543811\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM vows to tackle violence against women as outrage grows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>LONDON (AFP) – Britain\u00a0s prime minister vowed on Sunday to take action to better protect women after a national outpouring of grief and outrage over the death of a woman who went missing after setting out to walk home in London earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Boris Johnson also promised several reviews into the policing of a vigil for the woman on Saturday night, after male officers were seen scuffling with and restraining female demonstrators — further souring the national mood.<\/p>\n

Sarah Everard was found dead days after she went missing on March 3. A police officer was later charged with her kidnap and murder.<\/p>\n

Reclaim These Streets, which organised the protest that was eventually banned because of coronavirus restrictions, condemned the actions of officers “physically manhandling women at a vigil against male violence”.<\/p>\n

Johnson, who will hold a meeting of his crime and justice taskforce on Monday to discuss violence against women, said London\u00a0s police force and a watchdog would conduct separate reviews into the handling of the protest.<\/p>\n

“Like everyone who saw it I was deeply concerned about the footage from Clapham Common on Saturday night,” he said, referring to the south London park where the protest took place.<\/p>\n

London police chief Cressida Dick, who is facing calls to resign, told reporters her officers had been put in a “really invidious position”.<\/p>\n

“They moved to try to explain to people, to engage with people, to get people to disperse from this unlawful gathering and many, many, many people did. Unfortunately, a small minority did not,” she said.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Public awakening\u00a0 –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Helen Ball, another senior officer, said the force was dutybound to keep people safe.<\/p>\n

“Hundreds of people were packed tightly together, posing a very real risk of easily transmitting Covid-19,” she said.<\/p>\n

But the main opposition Labour party leader Keir Starmer, a former public prosecutor, called the scenes “deeply disturbing”.<\/p>\n

Four arrests were made for public order offences and breaches of coronavirus regulations, the force said.<\/p>\n

Everard\u00a0s disappearance and the huge search to find her has helped to focus attention on women\u00a0s safety in public places and the issue of male violence.<\/p>\n

She had visited friends in Clapham and was returning home to Brixton, about 50 minutes walk away, when she disappeared.<\/p>\n

Mourners once again gathered in Clapham on Sunday to pay their respects and call for change.<\/p>\n

“I felt compelled to come here today because it feels like all the women in my life have been really, really affected by Sarah\u00a0s death,” 34-year-old Isabel told AFP.<\/p>\n

“I feel like it\u00a0s a more conscious public awakening.”<\/p>\n

But one of Everard\u00a0s friends on Sunday warned that her death had become “hijacked”.<\/p>\n

“I think my friend would have been unsettled at how her death has been politicised,” Helena Edwards wrote in online magazine Spiked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AFP) – Britain\u00a0s prime minister vowed on Sunday to take action to better protect women after a national outpouring of grief and outrage over the death of a woman who went missing after setting out to walk home in London earlier this month. Boris Johnson also promised several reviews into the policing of a vigil for the woman on Saturday night, after male officers were seen scuffling with and restraining female demonstrators — further souring the national mood. Sarah Everard was found dead days after she went missing on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}