We move on to 90-second statements, and the first this afternoon is Jane Hutt.

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Welsh Women’s Aid. I'm hosting a St Dwynwen’s Day event in the Pierhead under the banner of 'Still We Rise—Fe Godwn Ni', to acknowledge the progress made and work that still needs to be done to tackle violence against women in Wales.  

There were only a handful of refuges when I started work as the first co-ordinator of Welsh Women’s Aid, but we were determined to campaign for change as well as providing refuge and support. Progress has been made, but the shocking fact is that one in three women in Wales experience violence and abuse.

Monica Walsh, a speaker at the event tomorrow, was one of the first women in the Cardiff refuge, which opened in 1975. She has shown great courage in her life, became a front-line trade union representative, a Labour councillor and Lord Mayor of Cardiff, continuing to campaign for women’s rights to this day. We have a duty in this Chamber to back her and the work of all those who tackle violence against women on a daily basis.

St Dwynwen, a fifth century saint, devoted her life to promoting loving relationships after surviving rape by her partner and escaping her father’s attempt to force her to marry a man she did not love. In recognition of St Dwynwen’s courage and the anniversary of Women’s Aid, still we rise—fe godwn ni.

Thank you. Julie Morgan.

The Gypsy and Traveller Holocaust event—the cross-party group on Gypsies and Travellers began organising an annual event three years ago to mark Holocaust Memorial Day because of the lack of knowledge of the suffering of the Gypsies in the Holocaust. Although the event tomorrow has been organised by Gypsies and Travellers, we will also be remembering the Jewish people, disabled people, the gay people who suffered; we will be remembering everybody.

Roma were targeted by the Nazis across Europe in the same way the Jewish population was, and the aim was to destroy the population entirely. Systematic programmes for moving the Roma into camps or segregated areas existed in every country under Nazi occupation and hundreds of thousands of European Roma were murdered. It is estimated that, at the beginning of world war two, there were around 1 million Roma in Europe. By the end of the war, there were only about 20 to 30 per cent of that. After the genocide, Roma survivors of the camps were not immediately acknowledged; they weren't compensated or asked to testify at the Nuremberg trials. It took more than 30 years for the West German Government to admit that the Nazis had targeted the Roma population.

A great many people who survived the Holocaust were left with terrible scars—scars that for many people have never healed. We will remember all of them too. Last year, the event used visual art to help us remember, with a tree and the book sculpture to represent the resilience of survivors and the will of the people to go on. This year, the artwork for the event is the 'Wall of Words'. Young people chose the words of power displayed there, which I hope you will see tomorrow on the steps of the Senedd at 1 o'clock.

Thank you.