On aver­age the Nation­al Col­lec­tive of Inde­pen­dent Wom­en’s Refuges receive one call for help every nine min­utes. From July 2013 to June 2014 the Shak­ti nation­al cri­sis line ser­vice exceed­ed 10,000 calls.

Bring Back Kate is Women’s Refuge’s lat­est call to action on domes­tic vio­lence in New Zealand. In 1893 Kate Shep­herd and a band of ded­i­cat­ed suf­fragettes com­piled 32,000 sig­na­tures on a huge roll of wall­pa­per, demand­ing women get the vote. When she deliv­ered it to par­lia­ment, it was unrolled across the cham­ber and the politi­cians of the day were per­suad­ed to make New Zealand the first coun­try in the world to recog­nise wom­en’s right to a polit­i­cal voice.

Bring-Back-Kate

Women’s Refuge is bring­ing Kate Shep­pard back to the steps of Par­lia­ment this Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 15th, as a 3D sculp­ture bear­ing the names of every­one who refus­es to tol­er­ate vio­lence against women and chil­dren.

Join mem­bers of the Nation­al Col­lec­tive of Inde­pen­dent Wom­en’s Refuges, Shak­ti, Rela­tion­ships Aotearoa, TOAH-NNEST, Nation­al Net­work of Stop­ping Vio­lence Ser­vices, Aotearoa New Zealand Asso­ci­a­tion of Super­vised Con­tact Ser­vices and the Pacif­ic Island Safe­ty Pre­ven­tion Project Inc, along with hun­dreds of sup­port­ers, to Bring Back Kate and March on Mon­day 15th Sep­tem­ber from Civic Square all the way to Par­lia­ment to have your voice heard.

Meet at Civic Square from 11.30 am on Mon­day 15th of Sep­tem­ber, or on the steps of Par­lia­ment at 12.40 pm.