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We need legal guarantees about the kind of society we want to be after Brexit.
More than 20 organisations and human rights legal experts have signed an open letter on the importance of the Charter of Fundamental Rights ahead of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill returning to Parliament this week.
The letter, published in the Observer, runs:
The EU (Withdrawal) Bill – returning to the House of Commons this week – will not protect people’s rights in the UK as the Government promised.
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‘Residents in Grenfell Tower repeatedly raised safety concerns which were ignored’.Last week Parliament published the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill ahead of its Second Reading, due on Friday, this week.For the Bill to pass, it is crucial that11
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‘The carer’s credit is a good scheme but it needs much more effective publicity.’A scheme designed to help carers of disabled people build better state pension entitlement has failed to reach 97 per cent of its target group, according to a new Freedom of Information (FOI) reply from the09
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Bristol Women’s Literature Festival 2018’s programme has been launched.And the Festival is ‘thrilled’ to be working in partnership with Bristol Festival of Ideas, Bristol Women’s Voice, Watershed, and Spike Island to bring you some of the UK and US’s best writers over three days in March.The22
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The women still have not had any explanation as to why they in particular were targeted.Seven women psychologically and sexually abused by undercover policemen who infiltrated UK protest groups have lodged a complaint to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women20
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The women bringing the claim were all pimped into prostitution when teenagers. Early next year the High Court will consider a ground breaking legal challenge brought by several women challenging the criminalisation and continued punishment of prostituted women.If successful, it will bring to18
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In some cases, low pay means an hour’s childcare costs more than an hour’s wages.New figures show that a third of young parents expect to get into debt this Christmas, as food costs rise and wages stagnate.Office for National Statistics inflation data released on 12 December 2017 showed13
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Calls for a change in the culture across the whole sector.The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM), the UK’s professional body for musicians, released an interim report recently setting out its findings regarding discrimination and inappropriate behaviour in the music sector.Founded in11
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And the government must act now to prevent Grenfell – “an entirely avoidable human disaster” – from being repeated.In the week of the six month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, John Healey MP has written to the Prime Minister setting out06
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We should take a hard look at what is happening inside our borders.The call is for nothing less for the Roma people, than we demand for the majority society.Ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights next year, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is04
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A significant proportion of female offenders have experienced domestic abuse.Women currently being held in UK prisons have often been victims of much more serious offences than those of which they have been convicted, a new report published by the Prison Reform Trust has revealed.The report21
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“I am frequently asked why so few women of colour hold leadership roles in academia – the answers lie in this book.”The long awaited collection of autoethnographies documenting the subtle but impactful ways that women of colour experience race and gender inequalities in British academia has now12
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One year on, come together to say Time’s Up.On the anniversary of the Women’s March London, join the rally on 21 January 2018 to say Time’s Up and to renew the struggle for equality and justice.Time’s Up on gender based violence, sexual harassment and abuse.Time’s Up on the systematic and10
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‘The families who brought their complaints to us have helped uncover serious issues that require national attention’.The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found last month that Averil Hart, who had anorexia nervosa and died in December 2012, was failed by ‘every NHS organisation08
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‘We do not believe that prostitution is inevitable’.It is estimated that there are 11 million sex trafficking victims worldwide, of whom 96 per cent are women and girls.This represents an unimaginable amount of human misery and suffering.But let us be clear, it is the money that ordinary22
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Of the 16 per cent who reported it, 81 per cent said it was not dealt with appropriately/to their satisfaction.Edinburgh International Television Festival (EITF) and 5 News conducted an anonymous, industry-wide survey recently to better understand how prevalent bullying and harassment is within19
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A time to take stock of the huge inequalities women still face, and, more importantly, to take action.Ahead of the centenary of the first women in the UK securing the right to vote, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has unveiled a major campaign to celebrate the role London played in the women’s18
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Employers are responsible for ensuring that employees do not face harassment in their workplace.Sexual harassment in the workplace is still widespread.The Trades Union Congress (TUC) research in 2016, for example, found that 52 per cent of women had experienced sexual harassment at12
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Report backs ongoing calls for urgent action to challenge sexism and sexual harassment in schools.New research commissioned by UK Feminista and the National Education Union (NEU) from the University of Warwick has shown precisely how widespread sexism in schools is – and why.The title of the11
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By supporting the human rights of others, we also stand up for our own rights and those of generations to come.The United Nations has kicked off a year-long campaign to honour the foundational human rights document, which marks its 70th anniversary next year.Human rights are rights inherent05
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“As a society we’ve turned a blind eye for too long; enough is enough and now is the time to act.”In the wake of the Hollywood and Westminster sexual harassment scandals, and the #MeToo campaign, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to the chairs of the FTSE 100 and other22
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National survey into staff sexual misconduct in UK Higher Education open until midnight, 15 December 2017.A UK-based research and lobby organisation is working to end staff-to-student sexual misconduct in higher education.The 1752 Group is working at a national level to educate and lobby for21
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Currently all the burden of this ‘flexibility’ is picked up by taxpayers and workers.The Work and Pensions Committee and the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee have published a joint report and a draft Bill to close the loopholes that allow companies to use bogus12
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‘Pregnant women and girls appear to have suffered a range of serious human rights abuses’.Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has commissioned research to be carried out into mother and baby homes and the Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland.The research will be undertaken over 1209
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‘It is men earning more in the same jobs or jobs of equal value. It is pay discrimination and it is illegal.’BBC journalist Carrie Gracie, who resigned from her post as China editor after a gender pay gap row, has written an open letter about exectly why she made that deicision to the BBC’s22
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We are off for a few days over Christmas and New Year. Thank you so much for your company.In the meantime, there is loads to read on our facebook page – and lots of petitions to sign.And something to sing here.Hope you have a lovely time, and a good rest, and come back ready to join us22
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There have been numerous calls for an update.The government has announced that it is asking parents, teachers and young people to help shape a new relationships and sex education curriculum for England, that will help them to stay safe and to face the challenges of the modern world.The19
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‘Every winter, 25,000 older people in England and Wales do not survive the bitter winter: this represents 206 deaths a day’.“Sir,Cold has been systematically killing our elderly people for over 30 years from cold-related illnesses against a background of soaring energy bills, due to the14
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‘Judges in the Public Affairs Awards evaluate entries based on the quality of the work delivered, and on nothing else’.An organisation called ‘Both Lives Matter’ was shortlisted for a “best campaign” in the Public Affairs Awards due to take place on 14 December for its work campaigning to12
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Changes to make sure that vulnerable women and children get legal support, and are properly heard in court.The current 5-year time limit on abuse evidence in the family courts is to be scrapped, and the range of documents which can be accepted as evidence of abuse will be widened to include06
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Increasingly, tools and technology are being misused by abusive men.Domestic violence takes lives and ruins lives, affecting one woman in four at some point in her life in England and Wales alone and killing two women every week.And modern technology gives perpetrators an ever-growing arsenal05
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NHS England and the Department of Health both failed in their oversight of NHS Shared Business Services.The Public Accounts Committee published its report on the failures in the handling of sensitive clinical data last week.Proper handling of clinical correspondence – including blood test22
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‘Speak out about the seriousness with which this behaviour is regarded and how it will not be tolerated’.The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) has written to the leaders of the political parties in Westminster involved in the cross-party working group on sexual harassment and abuse in10
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The Women’s Views on News site will be on a break until 20 November 2017.
There is loads to read, here and on our facebook page, and lots of campaigns to catch up on…
Thanks for your company this far!
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