From suicide to homelessness, there are vulnerable men who need help, but don't feel they can ask for it.
By Philip Davies MP: Since 2008, Parliament has held several debates to recognise International Women's Day in both the Commons and the Lords. Yet it was only last year that saw the first International Men's Day debate in Westminster hall, and only this year that the main Commons chamber hosted it.
Some people have said that every day is International Men's Day in Parliament because there are so many men there, but there is a huge difference between men raising issues and the raising of men's issues – we might get lots of the former, but we seldom get the latter.
In 2012, over 4,500 men felt they had no choice but to take their own lives. In 2013 the figure was nearly 5,000 men. In 2014, it was 4,630 men. In fact 75% of all suicides that year were committed by men – this is such a tragedy, and yet this issue is hardly considered in parliament.
Over the last 30 years there have been 134,554 men who have taken their own lives in the UK.