'Misogyny should be a hate crime' - Andy Burnham launches ten-year plan to tackle violence against women

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A new long-term strategy to prevent abuse and violence against women and girls in Greater Manchester has today been launched.

The 10-year plan focuses on ‘gender-based abuse ' and covers a range of crimes from domestic abuse and coercive control to rape, sexual assault and workplace harassment.

Among its ‘raft of commitments’ is a pledge to make misogyny a recordable hate crime - described as a

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