MPs fall silent as tearful Jess Phillips reads names of 101 women killed by men
The names of 101 women who were killed or allegedly killed by men in the past year have been read in the House of Commons.
MPs fell silent as Labour's Jess Phillips tearfully read the heartbreaking list, saying every name was a woman who had been failed. She described the list - which she reads every year during the Commons International Women's' Day debate - is a "testament to our collective failure".
She said: "At least half of the names I'm about to read out could have been saved." She blasted MPs for failing to protect women, and added: "I am tired that women's safety matters so much less in this place than small boats.
"I'm tired of fighting for systematic change and being given given table scraps. Never again do I want to hear a politician say lessons will be learned from abject failure. It is not true."
And Ms Phillips continued: "This list is no longer just a testament to these women's lives, it is a testament to our collective failure."
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Karen Ingala Smith, who compiles the Femicide Census to highlight the scale of the crisis, said: "It’s not good enough that for decades, centuries even, it has simply been accepted that men’s fatal violence against women is an inevitable part of society. By naming women, we are making sure that they are never simply reduced to statistics.
"By reading the list of names that we compile, Jess Phillips ensures that they are recorded in perpetuity in our parliamentary record. But what we really want to see is the government taking decisive and ambitious action to end men’s violence against women, girls and children and the wider sex inequality that underpins it. We can learn a lot by naming and analysing femicide."
The names in full
Alesia Nazarova
Beryl Bez' Purdy
Holly Bramley
Susan Turner
Bernadette Rosario
Sara Bateman
Unnamed Unnamed
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Rina Dee
Elise Mason
Marelle Sturrock
Suma Begum
Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey
Maya Devi
Suzanne Henry
Georgina Dowey
Holly Sanchez
Hayley Burke
Katie Higton
Kelly Pitt
Christine Sargent
Danielle Davidson
Stephanie Hodgkinson
Sandra Harriott
Fiona Robinson
Debra Cantrell
Emily Sanderson
Michelle Hodgkinson
Chloe Mitchell
Chloe Bashford
Tejaswini Kontham
Grace O'Malley Kumar
Monika Wlodarczyk
Kinga Roskinska
Natasha Morais
Felecia Cadore
Nelly Akomah
Sarah Henshaw
Elizabeth Richings
Lynette Nash
Elizabeth Watson
Carol Baxter
Fiona Holm
Collete Law
Rose Jobson
Ann Blackwood
Hazel Huggins
Sharon Gordon
Claire Orrey
Christine Emmerson
Kelli Bothwell
Liwam Bereket
Chintzia McIntyre
Amy Rose Wilson
Gabriela Kosilko
Claire Knights
Nhi Muoi 'Kim' Wai
Carrie Slater
Susanne Galvin
Helen Clarke
Ruth Rufton
Elianne Adnam
Charlene Mills
Alison Dodds
Deborah Boulter
Geyer Cecilia
Mandy Barnett
Denise Steeves
Mehak Sharma
Caroline Gore
Sian Hammond
Michele Faiers
Christie Eugene
Perseverance Ncube
Sharon Butler
Dawn Robertson
Victoria Greenwood
Salam Alshara
Kiesha Donaghy
Alison Bowen
Taiwo Abodunde
Milica Zilic
Lianne Gordon
Kamaljeet Mahey
Glenna Siviter
Kacey Clarke
Keotshepile Isaacs
Tia Simmonds
Maya Bracken
Alison McLaughlin
Tara Kershaw
Kanticha Sukpengpanao
Claudia Kambanza
Michele Romano
Claire Leveque
Sam Varley
Unnamed Woman, 40 years old from Beaconsfield
Names from previous years read by Ms Phillips
Melissa Mathieson
Emma Potter
Eileen Mary Thomson (née Ashcroft)