Huddersfield Peace Lecture on gender-based violence

‘From Yorkshire to Brazil and Back Again: Getting better responses to violence against women.'

Huddersfield Friends held their annual peace lecture earlier this month. It was titled ‘From Yorkshire to Brazil and Back Again: Getting better responses to violence against women’.

Ann Bettys, from Huddersfield Meeting, told the Friend that Fiona Macaulay, who is a professor of gender, peace and development at Bradford University, spoke about ‘how women’s groups in Brazil have managed to get the police and courts to better protect women from violence – in fact she says they are doing better than the UK’.

The lecture, which coincides with this year’s fiftieth anniversary of the Quaker Peace Studies Trust, follows Fiona Macaulay’s talk for the Bradford Inaugural Lecture Series last year, in which she also discussed tackling gender-based violence in Brazil.

With one of the highest murder rates in the world, and one of the largest prison populations, the Huddersfield lecture asked how it was possible to pressure and change the Brazilian state institutions responsible for gross human rights violations.

The Huddersfield Peace Lecture took place on 12 October.

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