Set up of a Men's Equality committee to address issues like male rape & suicide.

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Set up of a Men's Equality committee to address issues like male rape & suicide.

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There is already a Women & Equalities Committee, but it has not yet done any inquiries into issues facing men, such as;
1* Suicide (three times as high in men)
2* Male rape (where services for men are insufficient)
3* Domestic violence against men (misreported as only affecting women).

Additional Information

1. suicide rates by gender 16.8 per 100,000 for men and 5.2 per 100,000 for women from Samaritans website http://www.samaritans.org/about-us/our-research/facts-and-figures-about-suicide
2. 85,000 women and 12,000 men raped per year. http://rapecrisis.org.uk/statistics.php
3. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men - http://www.lwa.org.uk/understanding-abuse/statistics.htm”

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