According to this website in 1998 a group called WOMANKIND  launched the first White Ribbon Day in the UK. The following year the United Nations officially recognised 25th November as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The White Ribbon is a symbol of hope for a world where women and girls can live free from the fear of violence. Wearing or displaying a ribbon is intended to challenge the acceptability of violence.

Today is 19 years since the first ever event in the UK, yet according to this website today one woman in four experiences domestic violence in her lifetime, Two women are killed each week by a current or former partner in England and Wales and in the year ending March 2016, 1.2 million women reported experiences of domestic abuse in England and Wales.