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Update the system Instagram uses to detect and remove sexualised, predatory comments.
Collective Shout, a grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls, has written a letter to Instagram platform heads asking @instagram to take action and stop men using Instagram to share sex-abuse fantasies with kids.
It is addressed to Instagram Global Head of Policy, dated 4 December 2019, and says:
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A voluntary approach to promoting business respect for human rights and the environment has proven insufficient.Over 100 organisations and networks have joined civil society calls for the European Commission to develop corporate accountability legislation requiring companies to respect human04
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“It is important we provide a comprehensive health service for girls and women throughout their lives.”A survey, commissioned by The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, of over 3,000 women, has found that women are struggling to access healthcare services locally.This, the02
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States have a responsibility to promote a ‘general environment of zero tolerance’ to gender-based violence.The Center for Women’s Global Leadership recently released its 2019 Global 16 Days Campaign Advocacy Guide to support and strengthen efforts by advocates worldwide in engaging, mobilising29
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‘A regulator which gets it wrong is worse than no regulator at all’.Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has condemned the ‘horrific reality’ of conditions and treatment under which many young people with learning disabilities and autism are detained in mental health hospitals28
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Women have the right to maintain their sex-based protections.Members of the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) have also set up a declaration and are petitioning the Women’s Equality Party to protect women’s sex-based rights.It runs:When the Women’s Equality Party was formed in 2015, the Party21
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‘The current criminalisation of abortion in Britain fails women.’The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, bpas, commenting on manifesto commitments on abortion rights, has said:We welcome the Labour Party’s manifesto commitment to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales.Over the last19
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‘It is outrageous that so many people have been swept into poverty in recent years.’Of the 5.438 million people in Scotland over 1 million– including almost 1 in 4 children – are now living in the grip of poverty.For too many people in communities across the country – and particularly for14
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“I hope the conclusions of this inquest will be followed up to ensure the same failings are not repeated.”
Katharine Stamp, known to her family as Kate, was 30 years old when she died in the care of The Dene hospital in Sussex at some point in the early hours of 26 March 2015.
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We urgently need new legislation that ends the privatisation of healthcare.Campaigners and activists are urging candidates from all parties who aim to be MPs to sign a pledge protecting the National Health Service from further privatisation.In a letter to the Guardian, they wrote: It is17
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Stop charging destitute migrant women and their children for NHS care.The charity Maternity Action has launched a legal challenge to the government’s policy of charging destitute migrant pregnant women £7,000 or more to access NHS maternity care.The charity also challenges the charging of15
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Why was Charlie Nokes allowed to die in prison?
The inquest into the death of IPP prisoner Charlotte Nokes at HMP Peterborough, due to start on Monday, has been delayed.
Charlotte Nokes was 38 when she died at HMP Peterborough, a private prison run by Sodexo.
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We need to design evidence-based interventions and services to prevent inequalities in the care of women with HIV.In the UK 1 in 3 people living with HIV are women, and women make up one quarter of all new HIV diagnoses.A third of women living with diagnosed infection are aged 50 years and04
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In the last five years, this defence was successful in nearly half of the killings that went to trial.So far 59 UK women have been killed by men who claimed they ‘consented’ to violent sex.Please sign this petition and join Grazia’s campaign to ban the ‘sex game gone wrong’ defence, and stop02
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“We urge the next government to prioritise the health of our girls and women throughout their lives.”The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) published a joint manifesto last week, ahead of the general election on28
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Sexual violence is still being normalised and embedded in our social environments.From the trivialising of rape, victim-blaming, the objectification of women’s bodies in movies or TV, the glamorisation of violence in ads, or the constant use of misogynistic language, we are all daily witnesses27
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Humanitarian actors have an ethical imperative to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.Gender-based violence is a horrifying reality and human rights violation for women and girls globally.‘Gender-based violence’ is an umbrella term for any harmful act that is perpetrated against a21
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All who support the declaration set out below please sign it too.The Green Feminists Women and Girls’ Declaration Working Group calls for signatures and support.In the Core Values of the Green Party of England and Wales it is stated that “A system based on inequality and exploitation is19
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Extinction Rebellion UK calls on all political parties to remember their duty of care.Earlier this week Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists from more than 20 countries – inlcuding Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy14
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Political parties truly commit to co-producing policies with disabled people and their organisations.According to Age UK more than 50,000 older disabled people have died waiting – in vain – for care during the 700 days since the government first said it would publish a social care Green12
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All proposals should be audited for their effect on women and girls.Three hundred Labour Party activists and supporters, among them three MSPs and 24 Labour councillors, have launched a declaration on women’s sex-based rights — and are calling for more people to sign up.The declaration, which16
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Gender stereotypes close down worlds for children, limit reading choices and aspirations.The National Literacy Trust has teamed up with Let Toys Be Toys to create a poster for teachers with top tips to challenge gender stereotyping through literacy, language and play in the classroom.Gender
‘There is a feeling that certain vested interests want to keep the women divided and suspicious’.The final report of the North Belfast Women’s Voices Project – including a women’s charter for change that tackles head on some of the most challenging issues facing Northern Ireland’s communities –05
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Who is taking responsibility for this crisis?According to government figures, around 360,000 prescriptions of HRT for menopause symptoms are dispensed each month.Women taking HRT have been having trouble getting hold of their medications for several months, and 15 HRT products are reported to03
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“Clearly, childcare has not been treated as a national priority.”The Young Women’s Trust has called on political parties to put major childcare investment at the heart of their manifestos after new research showed young mothers not only locked out of work and equal pay but going hungry to29
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Half of all women with HIV are diagnosed late in Europe.Many women in the WHO European Region, particularly those in their 40s, are diagnosed at a late stage of HIV infection when their immune system is already starting to fail.They are three to four times more likely to be diagnosed late28
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Despite countless scandals, inquiries and reviews, violence against women and girls still blights lives.
A coalition of women’s groups has written to party leaders asking in detail about what they will do if elected to end all forms of violence against women and girls.
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We ask you to stand with women and defend our rights.Conservative and Unionist Party supporters, members, and activists, including both nationally and locally elected representatives and officers have now signed a women’s pledge.They join declarations by members of the Labour, Liberal20
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The silence, inaction and institutional indifference must end.In 2018/19, ten people died each week following release from prison. Every two days, someone took their own life.In the same year, one woman died every week, and half of these women’s deaths were self-inflicted.Deaths have been
‘We would like the Party to accept that there are differences that must be discussed’.Women in the Liberal Democrats party have launched their own #WomensPledge sex based rights declaration.Natalie Bird, one of the women in the LibDems who are concerned about the erosion of their sex based13
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“This is not about recognising religious marriages; it is about the state guaranteeing equality to all before the law.”On 31 July 2018, Mr Justice Williams, a family court judge, decided that Nasreen Akhter was entitled to a decree of nullity of marriage, following the break-up of her 18-year18
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Reinstate Section 40 of the Equality Act 2010.Two years on from the #MeToo movement, one in four young women say they would be reluctant to report sexual harassment at work for fear of losing their job, according to a survey by the charity Young Women’s Trust.And despite TUC research showing11
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‘Women who have heart attacks experience the same key symptoms as men’.Stark inequalities in awareness, diagnosis and treatment of heart attacks are needlessly killing women every day in the UK.Women are twice as likely to die of coronary heart disease, the main cause of heart attack, as