Meeting of the Parliament 25 March 2026 [Draft]
Twelve years on from the equally safe strategy, women and girls in Scotland are less safe than ever. Male violence is escalating in homes, on our streets and online. Despite £100 million of equally safe funding having been delivered since 2021, our vital front-line services are overwhelmed by demand from victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic abuse and prostitution. While other nations tackle the root causes of misogyny, including by criminalising the purchase of sex, our Government’s woeful inaction and ideological obsession have allowed data on sex to be corrupted, sex-based protections to be eroded and women to be treated as commodities. Will the Government stop blaming teenage boys for misogyny and finally connect the dots upstream by strengthening sex-based protections and confronting systemic misogyny through urgent legislative and societal action to reverse this crisis?