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The Council of Europe has said there is an ‘urgent need’ for more places in women’s shelters and warned cost-cutting measures have left vital services ‘underfunded and understaffed’

Faustine Petron’s Make It Mandatory campaign has received support from MPs and charities and garnered over 100,000 signatures

From the NHS, to sporting bodies and prisons, organisations will have to respond to supreme court ruling

From NHS wards to public toilets, what does Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling mean in practice?

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The first of two homes for survivors of domestic abuse, built with contributions from readers of The Independent, is ready to welcome its residents. The government should now honour its election commitment to the thousands of women and children affected by violence behind closed doors

INDEPENDENT CAMPAIGN: An all-female team of decorators will add the last touches to the property which was built using funds raised by The Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign, in partnership with domestic abuse charity Refuge, writes Athena Stavrou

The total number of domestic abuse-related deaths since 2020 is now more than 1,000

Sir Sadiq Khan says survivors must have confidence to report abuse, as he warns ‘huge amount of improvement’ needed in criminal justice system

‘We have no way of even beginning to address this issue’, the chief executive of Women’s Aid warned