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The UN estimates that more than 60 per cent of the 1,740 Palestinian dead are civilians. Writing after further international concern over the action of the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza, Caroline Lucas, MP, said, “Reports suggesting that weapons containing components made in the UK are being used against Gaza – including weapons control and […]
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Protection for women against all forms of violence just got better. By Hilary Fisher. Ending violence against women got a little easier from 1 August 2014. A significant milestone has been reached with the coming into force of the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and
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This poster is a horrible and unforgivable instance of victim blaming, and one that is totally unacceptable. Jack May writes: Copies of this poster have been sighted on NHS premises as part of the Home Office’s ‘Know Your Limits’ campaign. The poster reads ‘one in three reported rapes happens when
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Rape is not funny. Are rape jokes? As the Edinburgh Festival kicks off Stand Up For Women, Object, Zero Tolerance and Rape Crisis Scotland are asking just how funny are ‘rape jokes’ – jokes that trivialise rape or are made at the expense of victims? Supported by Jenny Eclair, Peter Egan, Josie
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The time has come to break the silence on FGM and CEFM, and to take a stand. A new package of action and funding to protect millions of girls at home and abroad from female genital mutilation and forced marriage was announced by the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron, International Development
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Facebook banned as “pornographic” a calendar showing female members of rowing society naked. This was an especially strange move considering the pages like the interest page for PornTube, which features a picture of a woman masturbating. And pages that are simply there to spam links to porn sites
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Help women and girls who have been trafficked into the UK find justice. Please click this link and join the Thunderclap against the Residence Test. Joy, a victim of trafficking,went to see Nick Clegg MP about her case and her fears about the residence test which would exclude people like her from
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A reflection ofimproving healthand a response to the rising state pension age. A study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says women in their late 60s could have a higher employment rate than men of the same age by 2020. Employment rates for women in their late 60s are currently at their
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‘There are a number of different forms in which CSE can present itself’. A public awareness campaign on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Northern Ireland has been launched. The campaign, The More You Know, The More You See, aims to increase public awareness around this form of child sexual abuse
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The complexities of the climate crisis require systemic change in how we are living with each other. The Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus (WECC) has now officially launched its new website. WECC is a solution-based alliance that works to foster resilient communities, promote a post-carbon economy
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‘Many schools have little or no Sex Ed whatsoever’. Please sign Jennifer McDonald’s petition asking two MSPs to modernise and reinforce sex education in schools: Taking into account our personal experiences, and also those of our peers who are still in school, we have noticed that we have all had
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“His words perfectly illustrate his and the [ruling] AK Party’s attitude towards women.” Actress Emma Watson is among many who have reacted to the Turkish deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc, for claiming that women should not laugh in public. The debacle began on 28 July when Arinc made a speech
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Nearly a million working days lost to UK economy as lack of childcare forces parents out of work. New research by the Family and Childcare Trust and Netmums has exposed that almost a fifth (17 per cent) of parents had to call in sick last year in order to manage childcare during the six week
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Last year the first year since 2008 in which the pay gap had actually widened. The gender pay gap in the capital and around the country has widened, new figures reveal. The Evening Standard published figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) last week showing that for full-time workers
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Of the 2,200 people Leeds South Foodbank has fed in the past eight months, more than half were hungry children. The Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP) has launched a Feed A Family campaign to help families in Leeds feed their children this summer amid fears that many families will be forced to turn to
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Women left to represent themselves in family courts. Changes in legal aid have forced more parents than ever before to represent themselves in family courts. Legal aid helps with legal costs, such as instructing a solicitor, for those who would otherwise be unable to afford to do so. Legal aid was
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Campaign group voices its concerns as investigation into abuse at mother and child homes set up. Very disturbing allegations have emerged recently regarding excessively high infant mortality rates in mothers and children’s homes, like the one in Tuam, recently in the headlines, which were run by
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Bristol: 10 July: Dinner for Good in aid of One25 charity at Aqua Italia, 153 Whiteladies Road, Bristol, from 7pm. One25 is a Bristol-based charity that reaches out to womentrapped in, or vulnerable to
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Stop trivialising women’s achievements. The vice-president of Facebook in Europe has hit out at the words the media use in theirportrayal of successful women. Speaking at a conference in London recently, Nicola Mendelsohn urged the media to change the language it uses to talk about women in
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Destructive behaviour and children being taken into care a vicious cycle. New data revealed by the BBC recently shows thousands of women in England have had more than one child taken into care. The Nuffield Foundation-funded study, led by the University of Brunel and Manchester, examined English
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If we tolerate conflict minerals in products, the sexual violence used to obtain these minerals will continue unabated. By Zainab Hawa Bangura, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. The revenue from the global consumer electronics industry is
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There are many credible reports of the widespread use of sexual violence as torture in Sri Lanka. The UK’s foreign secretary William Hague has said the UK government will investigate claims that Tamil asylum seekers are being deported from the UK to Sri Lanka despite evidence they have been
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Focus E15: the young mothers’ struggle for universal housing continues. By Kate Belgrave. For several months now, a small group of young, homeless mothers have been battling for decent and secure social housing for everyone. The mothers highlight an emerging problem facing thousands across the
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AIDS is now the second leading cause of deaths in young people. The first is traffic accidents. By Alice Welbourn. At the conclusion of the AIDS 2014 Conference on 25 July, Alice Welbourn is left wondering whether anything is going to change in the HIV world for young women – and their children
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Calling to be heard from the margins. Ending child and early forced marriage in the UK. By Hannana Siddiqui Last week, the UK Government and UNICEF hosted a global GIRL Summit on child and early forced marriage (CEFM) and female genital mutilation (FGM). I attended as a representative of Southall
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These cabinet changes are a sadly obvious attempt to gain more votes. David Cameron’s recent cabinet re-shuffle means that Nicky Morgan is now Education Secretary as well as Minister for Women and Equalities and Liz Truss is now the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is no
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Those who have failed children should be held accountable. From the Muslim Women’s Network UK: The Muslim Women’s Network UK (MWNUK) has welcomed the findings in both Peter Clarke’s and Ian Kershaw’s reports, that overall there is no evidence of promoting violent extremism in the schools
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The European Women’s Lobby cries scandal as the rhetoric on women’s rights and gender equality takes a blow. The European Women’s Lobby (EWL), has learned with dismay about the European Commission’s proposal to withdraw the proposed Maternity Leave Directive, as a gesture of ‘legislative
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UN Women’s new campaign to spark global dialogue and actions on women’s rights and gender equality. The ‘Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture it!’ campaign UN Women launched recently commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing which set a
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Increasing resource and income inequalities have especially harsh implications for women. In the emerging area of corporate responsibility, disparate harm to women from business and trade policies has been largely invisible, the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law
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The analysis and reporting done by her office had often been greeted with “stone-walling and denial”. Navi Pillay delivered her first speech as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Human Rights Council in September 2008. At the 26th session of the Council, in June 2014, and which isto be
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Call to abolish discriminatory laws and modify discriminatory social norms. “Cultural attitudes and gender ideologies frequently regard women as subordinate to men, or dictate that men should control women,” said Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “These attitudes may be so widely
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And we need to keep talking about it. To stop it. Domestic violence rises when England gets knocked out of World Cup. Maybe by as much as 38 per cent. Results from a research paper published in the journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency shows “a match day trend that the risk of domestic