White Ribbon UK Fringe Event Labour Party Conference 2025

At this year’s Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, White Ribbon UK hosted a fringe event, sponsored by Principle One. The event marked the launch of new interim findings from our upcoming report The Case for Investing in the Primary Prevention of Men’s Violence Against Women and Girls, developed in partnership with the Centre for Protecting Women Online.  

 The interim findings of the research, funded by the Open University’s Open Societal Challenges, highlights the urgent need for government investment in primary prevention to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG). The message was clear that if the Government is serious about reducing violence against women and girls by half within a decade, it must invest in primary prevention.  

 A summary of the five key findings can be read here: Labour Party Conference 25 — White Ribbon UK 

The panel brought together voices from across politics, research, and advocacy. White Ribbon UK’s CEO Lynne Elliot and Vice Chair Steve Barnbrook, was joined by Ben Sadler from Principle One, Andrea Simon of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, David Burton-Sampson MP,  Professor Olga Jurasz from the Centre for Protecting Women Online, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims and Violence Against Women and Girls, Alexandra Davies-Jones MP. Together, they discussed the opportunities presented by focusing on the primary prevention of violence against women and girls, and the need to take a collaborative approach across education, legislation, tech-regulation, and community support. 

White Ribbon UK CEO, Lynne Elliot spoke about the recommendations for the report’s key findings: 

“The government should fund large-scale primary prevention interventions, based on the successful findings we found, and that needs to include funding for robust monitoring and evaluation.” 

In front of a packed room, full of MPs, campaigners, frontline professionals, and Councilors, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims, Alexandra Davies-Jones MP, said:  

“I’ve long admired White Ribbon’s determination in calling out violence for exactly what it is, male-perpetrated violence against women and girls.  

This isn’t just a criminal justice issue to fix, as we’ve already heard, prevention has to be at the heart of this if we’re really to change the current situation, the status quo, by calling out misogyny and hitting the ambitions target that we have of halving violence against women and girls over the course of a decade.” 

White Ribbon UK remains committed to ensuring that primary prevention is at the top of the Government’s agenda. Working in collaboration is key to ensuring this happens and for Government to reach their target of halving violence against women and girls over the next nine years.