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Calling for a day of memory for victims of honour-based violence.
Karma Nirvana, a charity that supports victims and survivors of forced marriage and honour-based abuse, partnered with Cosmopolitan, the world’s largest women’s magazine brand, earlier this year, to lobby Theresa May MP.
They are asking May to establish a day of memory for all the women killed in what is known as ‘honour-based violence’ (HBV).
The day of memory being proposed is 14 July, the birthday of Shafilea Ahmed – who lost her life in 2003.
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#UniversityChallenge: women’s groups and students write to government and vice chancellors.A leading national coalition of women’s organisations has written to Business Secretary Vince Cable, to Universities UK and to the Russell Group enclosing new legal advice which shows British universities12
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Sex and Relationships Education, which deals with consent, equality and respect is not currently compulsory in UK schools.Campaigners who wrote to the leaders of five English political parties asking them to commit to compulsory Sex & Relationships Education (SRE) if elected in May have11
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Report also raises questions of how common misconceptions about rape persist in the courtroom.Policy makers and legal professionals should work together to introduce specialist ‘sexual violence courts’ in order to improve how the legal system in England and Wales responds to rape cases28
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The very purpose of Page 3 is clearly to ‘humiliate, chasten and bully women’.Last week The Sun, in its infinite wisdom, published a picture of a topless woman on its page 3 after widespread rumours that it had ‘quietly’ abolished the sexist tradition.It is impossible, as Sarah Ditum pointed21
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‘None of these publications are age-restricted and they are all displayed at child’s eye level next to ordinary newspapers.’With the promising reports that the Sun may be changing its policy of showing topless models on Page Three, feminist campaigns movement Object is calling on the other ‘Red16
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‘Rights of victims of violence now guaranteed outside their own country’.Victims of violence, especially those who have suffered domestic abuse or stalking, will be guaranteed better protection in any state which is a member of the European Union now, due to new rules which entered into force15
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Bid to banish the words and idea of ‘child prostitution’ to the history books.Campaigning MP Ann Coffey has tabled a series of amendments to the Serious Crime Bill to remove all references to ‘child prostitution’ from legislation.Coffey pointed out that the term ‘child prostitute’ is an14
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“It is vital that all victims are treated with sensitivity and respect and that their allegations are investigated thoroughly.”A joint protocol, created and implemented by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police, was launched last week, setting out how to deal with all rape cases13
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Imagine a world where street harassment is not tolerated, where we all enjoy equal access to public spaces.Hollaback! is a movement set up to end street harassment. It is powered by a network of local activists around the world.The idea is that the groups work together to better understand22
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…from the blog, but we will be posting items of interest on ourFacebook page and Twitter. Full service resumes 12th January. We would like to wish all our followers a peaceful break.
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Who actually wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ?By Gita Sahgal.Many of the assumptions about who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) are wrong. The less known story of the men and women who wrote this foundational, emancipatory and anti-colonial document must13
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And even within this group inequality exists.Lesbian and bisexual women are at risk of poor mental health, with bisexual women particularly affected due to ‘double discrimination’ and lack of social support, says report.An analysis of data from the largest UK survey of lesbian and bisexual12
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This is the most important election ever – let’s get our facts right.By Ellie Mae O’Hagan.Let’s face it. Things aren’t great are they? I won’t reel off a list of figures about inequality, living standards, and the super-rich, but things aren’t great.Now we have a general election to think10
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The Fabian Women’s Network was launched in 2005.The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of socialism via gradualist and reformist means.Founded in 1884 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, it is Britain’s26
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Calling upon all Twitter users to send a complaint; tweet the hashtag #FreeWomenonWeb.Twitter has disabled the link to the Women on Web website and made it impossible to tweet a link to the website.Women on Web was founded by Women on Waves in 2005, to respond to the urgent request for help20
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The triple whammy.By Deniz KandiyotiCaught in the cross-fire of political opportunism, neo-liberal triumphalism and geopolitical adventurism, feminist platforms are in retreat. Only a politics of coalition building can avert their eclipse.Eclipses are rare and mercifully transitory
‘We try to go peacefully, just ask for the truth but all we keep getting is lies’.By Amrit Wilson.In the last few weeks of 2014, I joined thousands of people in London to demonstrate in solidarity with Mike Brown’s family and the protesters in Ferguson.On one occasion outside the US15
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Even where they should feel safest, in their homes and communities, girls feel threatened.What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “violence against women”? A wife seeking refuge from an abusive husband after another beating, a young woman sexually assaulted on her way home from a night14
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Labour’s mission: to go ‘in search of these missing women’s voices’ to ensure that they are heard in May’s election.New research commissioned by the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman is shaping Labour’s new ‘Missing Millions’ policy.The research revealed that 9.1 million women12
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A new trajectory for domestic violence perpetrator research and interventions?Professors Liz Kelly from London Metropolitan University, Nicole Westmarland from Durham University and Charlotte Watts, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, have been investigating the extent to22
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…from the site, but we will be posting on our Facebook page and Twitter.
Full service resumes on 12 January.
We would like to thank our followers – and wish you all a peaceful break.
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One of the women died, one went on to great things, and one disappeared. British Science Week (BSW) is a ten-day programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities in different places in the UK for people of all ages, and will be running from 13 – 22 March 2015. Anyone
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A new criminal offence to tackle revenge porn is being introduced in England and Wales.Under the new legislation, which will cover England and Wales as part of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, it will soon be easier to prosecute instances of ‘revenge porn’.The big change is that there11
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Findings depict, once again, a concerning picture of continued demand for domestic violence services.Women’s Aid conducts a survey of its national network of services each year in order to ascertain the use of domestic violence services in England.Since 2006 Women’s Aid has also undertaken a29
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‘Each of the three sectors will identify approaches for addressing gender inequality’.UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment, has unveiled a pilot initiative to galvanise momentum in advancing gender equality and women’s21
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Think about what you already assume about sexual consent.Fifty Shades of Grey won the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards for the most popular book of the year, and it is estimated that as many as a third of British women have read at least one of E L James’s erotic ‘Fifty Shades’16
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‘Men watched them in intimate situations such as while naked, partly dressed, in the shower or on the toilet.’A report ‘I Am Human: Refugee women’s experiences of detention in the UK’, has been published recently that looked at the experiences of 38 women who came to the UK to seek asylum and15
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Central to a new campaign is one big fundamental question…A new campaign on breast cancer is looking at the environment, people’s occupations and at the obstacles to getting both of these risk factors taken seriously in the current breast cancer debate.From Pink to Prevention is a new breast14
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Reducing exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in our everyday environment may stop cancers before they start.MEP Christel Schaldemose has told an inter-party meeting of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) active on cancer today that: “Effective regulation of endocrine disrupting13
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Young feminists speak out.By Maria Deiana and Claire Pierson.More than a decade since the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland’s peace has failed to address women’s demands for inclusion and equality, and the peace remains incomplete.On the one hand, women express dissatisfaction with an12
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Challenging the restrictive gender stereotypes used in the design and marketing of children’s clothes.Let Clothes Be Clothes campaigners are concerned about the split of colours, themes, motifs, slogans and fit into for girls or for boys; any child caught crossing this divide faces negativityWho actually wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ? By Gita Sahgal. Many of the assumptions about who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) are wrong. The less known story of the men and women who wrote this foundational, emancipatory and anti-colonial document must be
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One of the women died, one went on to great things, and one disappeared.British Science Week (BSW) is a ten-day programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities in different places in the UK for people of all ages, and will be running from 13 – 22 March