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2014
Austin Mitchell showed us why people hate politicians. By Johanna Baxter. Whilst I was out at the weekend campaigning in Hampstead and Kilburn to get the brilliant Tulip [Siddiq] elected,Austin Mitchell [Labour MP] picked up his poised pen and with one article brought shame to our PLP [Parliamentary Labour Party]. Not only were his comments […]
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2014
Breaking the vicious circle. By Lucy Dixon. The double stigma faced by women who use drugs and are involved in prostitution means that they are a largely hidden group in the UK. New research argues that for those who wish to rebuild their lives, policy and services must address these issues
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2014
The unemployed in their mid-60s will be the new so-called workshy scroungers. Pensioner families across the UK will suffer social security cuts worth £6.38bn a year by the time the government’s welfare reforms have taken full affect, the TUC warned ahead of a new report on the impact of social
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2014
The numbers of women in low paid, insecure work are still alarmingly high. New research for a report by the Fawcett Society shows that women – and especially those on low pay – are firmly shut out of the UK’s widely-reported economic recovery. The new report -The changing labour market 2: women
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2014
New research reveals that 870,000 people between 65 and 89 now have unmet needs for social care. The research uncovers the fact that nearly a third (31.1 per cent) of people who have difficulty in carrying out some essential activities of daily life do not receive any help formally from care
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2014
Women need support that extends far beyond any refuge stay. A new report from the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) and Solace Women’s Aid looks in depth at the long-term needs of domestic abuse survivors and their families. In a first of its kind for Europe, a three-year study tracked 100
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2014
‘The health of our young people – both mind and body – is a critical asset.’ Did you know that nearly one fifth of the global population is comprised of youth aged 15-24 years? On a global level, approximately 20 per cent of them experience a mental health condition each year. Clicke here and help
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2014
Ordinary people can make things change; don’t believe that politics is something that other people take part in. It’s really hard to passively watch the rapid dismantling, privatisation and destruction of the NHS. First we had the Health and Social Care Act, then Section 75 and more recently Clause
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2014
New report shows that music videos feed sexism and racism and supports call for age ratings. As songs with highly sexualised and racialised music videos including Calvin Harris’ ‘Summer’ and Basement Jaxx’ ‘Never Say Never’ fill the summer charts, a new briefing on the sexist and racist content of
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2014
Lancashire grandmas and mums occupy proposed fracking field. At 5am this morning a team of around 25 grandmothers, mothers and others from the Blackpool area set up a protection camp in a field earmarked for development by shale gas industry operators Cuadrilla. They said that they had, over the
06
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2014
An exhibition showing how objects themselves can be revolutionary. This summer the V&A is presenting its first exhibition exploring objects of art and design from around the world that have been created by grassroots social movements as tools of social change. Disobedient Objects is about
05
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2014
Behind their glitz and glam World Cup marketing are stories that Adidas doesn’t want you to know. Garment workers who produce Adidas apparel do not get a fair share of the value they generate in the supply chain. They are not paid a wage they can live on, let alone enough to save and thus
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2014
Geek conventions have a bad reputation for being a generally white straight male dominated field -- but Nine Worlds is something entirely different.
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2014
Fourth time lucky. A capacity crowd witnessed a stunning end to a sparkling tournament in Paris. After losing in the last three World Cup finals, England finally claimed the world title on 17 August for the first time since 1994. A full house of 22,000 at the Stade Jean-Bouin saw England beat
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2014
A study carried out by law firm Slater & Gordon has found concrete evidence of what feminists have been saying for years: women are often routinely discriminated against after having children.
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2014
Calling upon the Irish State to finally admit the wrongfulness of symphysiotomy. The Chairman of the UN Human Rights Committee has condemned symphysiotomy as practised on Irish women as forced medical experimentation amounting to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under Article 7 of the
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2014
Government policies are causing significant hardship. A report published recently by campaigners Just Fair says that the UK government is in breach of its legal obligations to respect, protect and fulfill the human rights of disabled people. The report is the first comprehensive analysis of the
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2014
For ‘a different approach and a better way forward’. Green Yes, the Scottish Green Party‘s campaign for a Yes vote in Scotland’s independence referendum, is urging undecided women voters to seize the opportunity to create a more equal society. The latest Scottish Social Attitudes Survey reported
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2014
‘Young women experience psychological distress when being sexually objectified.’ A new study published in the academic journal Sex Roles has advocated psychological support for women facing sexual objectification. But it has its priorities all wrong. The study, led by University of Tennessee
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2014
Speakers include Joan Bakewell, Taslina Nasrim, Jo Glanville, Gululai Ismail and Maryam Namazie. Activists and defenders of freedom of thought and expression are in Oxford this weekend for the World Humanist Congress, hosted by the British Humanist Association (BHA). This congress is held every
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2014
Circulate a revised note calling for more gender sensitive language in all UN documents. We the undersigned – victims and survivors of prostitution, women’s groups representing marginalized communities of caste, class and ethnicity, and anti-trafficking organizations representing those trapped in
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2014
Currently only two official nominees are women. The creation of the new EU Commission is likely to be delayed after member states continue to fail to nominate enough women. The member states are not heeding to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s request for at least 9 of the 28 Commissioners
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2014
But it could be an incredible tool for those who are victims of “revenge porn” or harassment. The House of Lords has condemned the recent ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) as being ‘wrong in principle’ and ‘unworkable’. The ruling states that EU
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2014
The system in Ireland failed more than the 3,679 who gave Irish addresses inUK clinics. A staggering 70 women a week gaveIrish addresses when having anabortion in the UK last year. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. On June 12, the UK’s Department of Health (DoH) released information
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2014
Providing access to reproductive healthcare: a simple and cheap way to save women’s lives. Every day, 800 women die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. Worldwide, one woman dies every 11 minutes from an unsafe abortion. Teenage pregnancy is the number one cause of mortality for girls
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2014
Concerned about the potentially adverse health effects of increased exposure to harmful chemicals as a result of fracking. What is fracking? “Hydraulic fracturing” or “fracking”, for short, is the term given to the technique used to access gas held within shale beds. During this process, a borehole
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2014
Sign up for Anonymous Voter Registration. Scottish Women’s Aid has launched #safevotes, a new campaign to encourage women and young people who are eligible to vote but fear being traced, to sign up for Anonymous Voter Registration (AVR). Anonymous Voter Registration means voters will be able to
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2014
Affirmative action, not positive discrimination, needed to address structural imbalances in the system. One of the strongest advocates for a change in the justice system has called again for more parity in the appointment of judges. Baroness Hale, Britain’s only female Supreme Court Judge and the
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2014
The humble Lego brick – the centre of criticism because of the company’s marketing. Lego was created in the 1930s by philanthropist Ole Kirk Kristiansen, who had a vision of it contributing to creative play and healthy child development. The name Lego, translated from Danish, means ‘play well’, and
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2014
Against the madness of mutually assured destruction. By Rebecca Johnson and Jaine Rose. Rolling out a seven-mile knitted pink peace scarf between the Atomic Weapons Establishment complexes at Aldermaston and Burghfield on Nagasaki Day may sound crazy. It isn’t as insane as letting the UK government
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2014
Employment tribunal fees ‘have been a huge victory for Britain’s worst bosses’. Alison Johnstone, Green MSP for Lothian and a member of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood’s economy committee, has secured a pledge from Scottish ministers that they will put pressure on the UK government and protest
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2014
Former Labour MP Meg Hillier has called for separate lanes for slower cyclists to "pootle" in.
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05
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2014
European garment workers work long hours for wages that do not meet even their most basic needs. Earlier this year the Clean Clothes Campaign released a major report that exposed widespread human rights violations in garment factories across Eastern Europe. The report, “Stitched Up – Poverty wages
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2014
By the end of 4 August 1914, Europe was at war. Diplomacy had failed. The tragedy had begun. It drew in people from every continent, killing millions and bringing down empires. But did we learn our lesson? All this year, writes Emma Wallis, I’ve been avidly consuming the TV dramas, the recreations