FATHERS For Justice has launched a campaign to get Facebook sites that allow women to name men who they say have been abusive or violent shut down.

The group says it believes the Prick Advisor pages are sexist and could encourage a "counter productive 'gender war' between men and women" and have written to Facebook.

It says they could breach Facebook's community guidelines, may be defamatory and also breach data protection laws.

CONCERN RAISED: Prick Advisor pages attract attention

But administrator of the Bradford Prick Advisor West Yorkshire page Kimberley Brown defended the pages and said they were providing a useful service.

Matt O'Connor, of Fathers For Justice, said: "Our 80,000 plus supporters (30% of whom are women) have been lodging complaints with Facebook as a result, and won’t stop until every page is taken down.

"We believe the pages are sexist and misandrist, and may also be defamatory and breach data protection laws.

"What’s sad is that these pages have been set up by embittered women, who in their own words claimed it was ‘a bit of fun’ to name and shame and demonise men, many of whom are the father of their children.

"Clearly this may also cause emotional distress to children who stumble upon these pages (kids under 13 are regularly on FB and other social media) and read upsetting adult content about their parents.

"It’s also stoking an unnecessary and wholly counter productive ‘gender war’ between men and women."

Fathers For Justice thought their campaign had succeeded when the Bradford Prick Advisor West Yorkshire page was unavailable on Tuesday but the page was back up and running yesterday.

Miss Brown, 32, said that she knew nothing about the campaign to take the page down.

She said: "It's still there and a success. People like it.

"We've got 100 joining each day, which has calmed down now.

"If men stop being pr**ks then we wouldn't need to name and shame them."

Since it was set up two weeks ago, the page had had 523 posts and 4,308 members.

Another Facebook page with the same name covering the Leeds was set up five months ago and has 2,767 members.

Miss Brown has previously said she set the page up as a force for good.

She said: “We are not there to hate men, we are there to warn people about dangerous men."

Miss Brown said all of the posts are reviewed before they are allowed on the group.

Facebook said it was investigating the pages.