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TheCrown Prosecution Service has questions about new DV prosecution guidelines and would likecomment. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has producedDraft Guidelines for the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases, andis currently consulting/requesting feedback. These guidelines are important because they will provide assistance to decision makers and professionals during prosecutions of domestic violence. The CPS has identified […]
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The bodies of almost 800 young children have been found in the disused septic tank of a former "mother and baby home" in Tuam, Ireland.
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The relentless rise of food poverty in Britain. Today, Britain is a country where one in five people live below the poverty line and life expectancy in some areas is lower than in some developing countries. Yet the rich keep getting richer opening up a massive inequality gap – andthe UK is on
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National Rape Action Plan welcomed by women’s groups. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the national policing lead for adult sexual offences have announced major new action to tackle rape, and are together calling for a renewed challenge against persistent myths and stereotypes they
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The apology has been seen as a ‘start’. In February 2013 Channel 4 News aired allegations by two women of sexual impropriety over several years by Chris Rennard, the Liberal Democrat party’s former chief executive. The women told the news programme he abused his position for years by
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End violence against women in a generation: teach boys and young men to challenge attitudes and overcome everyday sexism. CARE believes that, while men and boys are part of the problem, they must also become a greater part of the solution. In the Balkans,CARE haspioneered an approach that shows men
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But nowa growing body of data is beginning to quantify the extent ofthe bias. From publishing results to performing tests in a lab and securing the funding to do the tests, women face more and higher hurdles to success than do men. Personal anecdotes abound of instances of sexism against women
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Help make sure that refugee women are not forgotten atinternational summit in London. The Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie,and the UK’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, will be co-chairing a global summit to end sexual violence in conflict, taking place in
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Bristol: 5-14 June: Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale at the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Raleigh Road, Bristol In 1896 at Cambridge University, something deeply unsettling and utterly baffling is happening. The
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Are the glossy magazines blamed unfairly? It is has recently been reported that more young people than ever are having cosmetic surgery. TheBritish Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) said its surgeons carried out 50,122 cosmetic procedures during 2013, an 18 per cent increase on
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Darlington mums organise a People’s March for the NHS through England. Following in the footsteps of the Jarrow marchers back in 1936, a group of mums are organising a people’s march for the NHS. It aims to leave Jarrow on 16 August 2014 and arrive in London – and go to the Houses of Parliament
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Plan F. By Polly Trenow. The economy is recovering, or at least this is what we are told. Unemployment is falling, inflation is low and the country’s debt is finally diminishing. So we can all look forward to reaping the benefits of forthcoming prosperity, right? Well not quite. Amid talk of
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Bristol: Until 14 June: Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale; at the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Raleigh Road, Bristol. A fast-paced mini-epic, centred around a key battleground on the march towards equal rights
We now face the prospect of 16-year-old girls joining the army in combat roles. By Rachel Taylor. Shortly after announcing it would be reviewing the ban on women in combat roles, the Ministry of Defence last week published annual recruitment figures which revealed that 1,140 women joined the armed
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With parcelsforbidden, private companiesare making a profit from selling goods to prisoners. A new reportby the Prison Reform Trust, supported by the Bromley Trust, shows a system under significant strain with fewer staff, worsening safety, and fewer opportunities for rehabilitation. Unprecedented
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Footballer Joey Barton has apologised after describing UKIP as the best of “four really ugly girls”. The footballer, Queens Park Ranger’s midfielder, who was appearing on BBC’s Question Time on 29 May, was commenting on the legitimacy of UKIP’s recent victory in the European elections. Hisremark
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Three years on and we still don’t have any answers. On Thursday 5 June and Friday 6 June 2014 the High Court will hear an application to require the Metropolitan police to drop their “neither confirm nor deny” (NCND) stance in a case being brought against them over undercover relationships. In a
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Gender stereotyping and lack of opportunity holds women directors back in British television. Television production is the largest area of employment for directors, and 27 per cent of Directors UK members are women. Yet the percentage of women directing British television shows is far less than it
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Is the Home Office’s behaviourover this case indicative of the government’s true commitment to fighting FGM? Awoman who seeking asylum in the UK because she believes her two daughters are at risk of FGM in their native Nigeria has been given a temporary reprieve from a recent attempt at
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We will be back on Monday 2nd June.
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‘Many of the skills that are needed for innovation are also the skills of motherhood’. Mothers of Innovation is a UK group exploring why it pays to invest in mothers as innovators and how mothers innovate in different and distinctive ways. Innovators is not the first word that springs to mind when
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The Party Election Broadcast I’d like to have seen… By Emma Burnell. I can’t say I’m a big fan of Labour’s new Party Political Broadcast. I don’t believe the message Labour should be taking to the electorate is “we’re not as duff as the Lib Dems nor as evil as the Tories”. There’s no denying
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Sexualviolence in conflict destroys lives and damages communities. Our co-editor Keely Khouly is ive tweeting today from the Global Summit to End Violence in Conflict. The UK’s Foreign Secretary William Hague, and Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, are
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The habits of the heart: substantive democracy after the European elections. By Mary Kaldor. Nationalism is a way of deflecting discontent towards a convenient scapegoat, the ‘other’ – an immigrant or Europe. It is a way of mobilising political support while avoiding any commitment to address the
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And MP calls for inquiry into the ‘serious allegations’ of sexual abuse at the centre. Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre is ‘not fulfilling its basic function’ by detaining women for extended periods of time without deporting them, according to a report published recently. The Annual Report
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Women and girlsare often attacked when going out to use the toilet, particularly at night. Two teenage girls were gang-raped and killed recently after doing what half a billion women and girls are forced to do every dayand night -go outdoors to try to find somewhere discreet to go to the toilet
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‘Empowering women is one of the most important ways to accelerate growth across the global economy’. The United Nations has teamed up with leading businesses to advance women’s rights and empowerment through a new advisory council comprising of private sector chiefs with a strong commitment to
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Media Spotlight looks at 3 problems with the Isla Vista media coverage. A 22 year-old man went on a shooting and stabbing rampage on 23 May near the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus in Isla Vista, USA, killing six students and injuring 13 more. The confirmed suspect, Elliot
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Her indomitable stance against racism, injustice and rape resonated with people from all walks of life. Since the death of Maya Angelou last week, the scale of tributes pouring in shows just how much of a cultural idol she had become, but she did not stand for idolisation. Her whole purposewas to
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Andthat everyone needs to know. ByCat Turhan, Welfare and Campaigns Officer, University of Warwick. I’m a big fan of NUS conferences. I like being able to see what’s going on at a national level, influence what’s happening, then bring ideas back to campus. Between9th-11th May,I attendedthe NUS LGBT
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In Streep’s work she never seems to be like any particular person, but convinces the viewer of how human that character is. Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks Author: Cynthia Arrieu-King If you Google “greatest living actor,” the first hit is not only Meryl Streep, but also lists with headings
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Less than a third of councillors and MEPs are women. According to the Fawcett Society just 32 per cent of England’s councillors and MEPs, only 13 per cent of elected mayors and just 12 per cent of council leaders are women. The proportion of female councillors has not increased in the last ten
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Former British Number One tennis player Elena Baltacha died just four months after being diagnosed with liver cancer. This is a tribute by WVoN’s sports editor, Penny Hopkins. There are plenty of purely straight obituaries to read, but this is not going to be one of them. It is an unashamedly