Connecting to the wire…
Male violence is a global epidemic — and men are its biggest group of victims. Men commit 95% of the world's homicides and are 81% of the people killed. They fill the armies, the mortuaries and the suicide statistics. A woman is killed by a partner or relative every ten minutes. The same drive to dominate and extract is emptying the oceans and pushing a million species toward extinction.
That is where this page began: a visualisation of how many headlines result from male violence, including murder and warmongering, the two categories already ticked when you arrive. It now reaches further, because the pattern does. Environmental dystopia, tech dystopia and financial inequity are on the list too: harms people choose to inflict on humanity and nature. Every one of them is a decision somebody made. And decisions can be unmade.
Hope over blame. This isn't about most men — the overwhelming majority aren't violent, and many are on the receiving end. It's about a pattern, and naming a pattern isn't an accusation; it's the first step, because we can't change what we won't recognise. Every grey story above is preventable, and the question this page asks is how we erase them from the world, not just the screen. The hope is a morning when there's nothing to grey out. Here is where that starts.
Understand consent. Don't listen for a "no" — make sure there is a clear, freely given "yes", every time. Talk about it openly.UN Women — 10 ways to help end violence against women
Listen to and believe survivors. Her sobriety, her clothes and her sexuality are irrelevant. Say: we hear you, we believe you.UN Women — 10 ways to help end violence against women
Reject the rules of the "man box" — that a real man dominates, never backs down, never shows weakness, settles it himself. Those rules kill men first: they drive the fights, the risk-taking and the silence.Equimundo — The Man Box
Check in on other men, properly. Men die by suicide at twice the rate of women and are 81% of the world's murder victims. The code that says don't talk is part of what's killing them.WHO — Suicide · Movember
Interrupt other men early, while it's still only words — the joke, the threat, the escalation in the pub. Most male-on-male violence starts as a challenge nobody was willing to defuse.A Call To Men · Futures Without Violence
Learn the signs of coercive control. Monitoring her movements, jealousy, isolating her from friends and controlling the money are abuse long before anyone is hit.WHO — Violence against women · Respect UK
Take the pledge that defines this work: never commit, never condone, and never stay silent about male violence.White Ribbon — the pledge
Teach the next generation and learn from them. Talk to boys about consent, rejection, bodily autonomy and feelings — and let them see a man who can lose an argument without needing to win it.UN Women · Equimundo
If your own behaviour or thoughts frighten you, call a behaviour-change line today. Free, confidential, and the strongest thing on this list.Respect Phoneline (UK) · No to Violence (AU)
Widen the lens. The same logic — dominate, extract, win at any cost — empties oceans and pushes a million species toward extinction. Back the people and the leaders who measure success by what survives.IPBES / UNEP — Global Assessment · UN Women — fund prevention
Treats violence as an epidemic — trained interrupters detect and defuse conflicts before they turn lethal, cutting shootings and killings in cities worldwide. cvg.org
Men's mental health and suicide prevention — practical tools for hard conversations, and funding for men's health research. movember.com
Practical, stigma-free support for men managing depression and suicidal thoughts — self-checks, strategies, and recovery stories from other men. headsupguys.org
Call or text 988 anywhere in the US for free, confidential crisis support. 988lifeline.org
Research and programmes on healthy manhood — helping men and boys step out of the "man box" that drives violence outward and inward. equimundo.org
Educating men and boys toward a healthy, respectful manhood. acalltomen.org
Men working to end male violence against women. whiteribbon.org.uk · whiteribbon.org.au
The Campaign Against Living Miserably — a movement against suicide, the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. Helpline 0800 58 58 58, 5pm–midnight. thecalmzone.net
Confidential help for men worried about their own abusive or controlling behaviour. 0808 802 4040 · respectphoneline.org.uk
Support for any man experiencing domestic abuse, and those helping him. 0808 801 0327 · mensadviceline.org.uk
Free counselling and referral for men using or at risk of using violence, run by No to Violence. 1300 766 491 · ntv.org.au