This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Closed petition 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).
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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