Dads Against Discrimination: the Alliance’s First Founding Member (Agreement Pending)
Founding Member (agreement pending)
Dads Against Discrimination
United Kingdom
Focus: Fathers & family
D.A.D. and the Alliance are both supported by Sentient OS Ltd.
Every movement starts somewhere. Ours starts with dads.
Dads Against Discrimination (D.A.D.) is the first Founding Member (agreement pending) of The United Global Alliance For Men & Boys.
D.A.D. is a separate organisation, distinct from the Alliance, with its own purposes, its own work and its own voice. As a Founding Member (agreement pending), it stands alongside the Alliance. It is not part of it. D.A.D. and the Alliance are both supported by Sentient OS Ltd.
Who D.A.D. are
D.A.D. is a UK organisation with two clear purposes.
First, it raises awareness of the issues too many men face in silence.
Second, it is working to secure funding to provide direct support services for:
male victims of domestic abuse;
male victims of legal and administrative abuse, such as parental alienation or the loss of contact with their children;
men who face discrimination within the police, the justice system, Cafcass or social services.
Its own words say it best. If you’re a dad feeling lost, scared or cut off from your children, D.A.D. is there to offer calm support, shared experience and practical help. Not anger. Not blame. Just men standing together so no dad goes through it alone.
What D.A.D. does
It names the problem. D.A.D.’s discriMENation Dictionary of Terms gives a word to what thousands of fathers describe: being treated as the lesser parent because of a stereotype, not because of who they are. You can’t fix something nobody will name.
It campaigns. Children Are Not Weapons is D.A.D.’s national campaign against legal and administrative abuse, where the process itself is used as a weapon and children become leverage in adult disputes. Its series, The Control Files, explains in plain language what that abuse looks like and why the system struggles to see it.
It asks for the receipts. D.A.D.’s position is simple: you can’t fix what you won’t count. DATA, short for Don’t Allow Total Assumptions, is its push for evidence over stereotype. And the gaps are real. The Ministry of Justice says the sex of people protected by non-molestation orders "is not captured administratively" (MoJ FOI reply, Nov 2025). Cafcass has no structured field for what its Section 7 reports recommend (Cafcass FOI reply, May 2026).
It stands up for male victims. An estimated 1.5 million men in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse in the year to March 2025, about 2 in 5 of all victims (ONS, Crime Survey for England and Wales). Yet men are just 27.9% of the victims police record. Many male victims never get as far as the police. Too many are still not believed.
It talks about men’s mental health, inside and out. Protect Your Head is D.A.D.’s men’s mental health campaign. The DAD Beanie protects your head from the weather, and it reminds every man to protect his head inside too. One message, both meanings. All proceeds from D.A.D.’s shop go towards support for dads and male victims of domestic abuse.
Why this matters beyond Britain
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK (Department of Health and Social Care, April 2025). In 2024, 5,347 men in the UK took their own lives. That’s more than 14 a day (ONS, 2024 registrations).
And Britain is not the exception. In 15 years, suicide killed 7.4 million men, more than every COVID death ever reported to WHO (7.1 million). And that’s only what was counted. Just 80 of 194 countries record suicide properly, and in India official figures missed at least 1 in 4 male suicides. The real toll is far higher.
That is why the Alliance exists. Women and girls have had a dedicated United Nations entity for 16 years, since UN Women was created in 2010. Men and boys have no equivalent. Our position is simple: either both should be formally recognised, or neither should.
UN for Men is our campaign for a dedicated UN body for men and boys. The Alliance brings together organisations working for men and boys on every continent, and it seeks formal recognition within the United Nations system.
The first of many
D.A.D. shows what one community can do when men stop suffering in silence and start standing together. It turned private struggle into public questions, and public questions into a campaign.
Now we want to hear from organisations everywhere doing the same: in your country, your city, your town. Every group that joins makes the case harder to ignore.
Half the world demands equal representation in the UN. We need a UN for Men & Boys.
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The United Global Alliance For Men & Boys is not part of, affiliated with, or endorsed by the United Nations. UN for Men is our campaign for a dedicated UN body for men and boys.
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