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Plastic is clearly not needed in period products.
Conventional period products contain up to 90 per cent plastic and are constantly being manufactured, are used for between 4-8 hours, then disposed of.
They then take over 500 years to break down – meaning that if Jane Austen had used them hers would still be decomposing today…
And when they are incorrectly flushed down toilets they get into rivers and oceans and end up on beaches; a report by the European Commission found that period items are the fifth most common waste washed up on beaches.
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“It’s shocking that in 2019 so many people experience sexual harassment and assault while at work.”The TUC, women’s rights organisations and charities have launched a joint campaign calling on the government to introduce a new law to make employers responsible for protecting their staff from25
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Until violence against women is taken seriously by authorities the deaths will continue.The inquest into the homicide of Lisa Skidmore concluded recently with the jury returning a narrative conclusion finding multiple failures by the police and the probation services more than minimally20
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‘A convenient vehicle for covering up unlawful activity with legally sanctioned secrecy’.The Women and Equalities Committee’s report on the use of non-disclosure agreements in discrimination cases, published recently, shows unequivocally that in many cases signing a non-disclosure agreement is19
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‘This report reveals that the current system sets the scene for domestic abuse’.Social security systems throughout the UK are failing survivors of violence and abuse when they need help the most, according to a new report launched recently by the Women’s Budget Group, Surviving Economic Abuse17
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‘It was ridiculous to expect children to take responsibility for their own abuse like that’.The so-called ‘same roof rule’, which has unfairly denied many victims and survivors access to the Criminal Injuries Compensation they deserve following child sexual abuse and other sexual and violent14
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Committee makes detailed and wide-ranging recommendations that affect many aspects of the Bill.The Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill has published its report on the government’s proposed Domestic Abuse Bill – and has called for it to be amended to give greater protection to13
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What I learnt at the UN Committee Against Torture’s Review of the UK.A report from NordicModelNow!Last month I went to Geneva to attend the 66th session of the United Nations (UN) Committee Against Torture as it reviewed the UK’s progress in implementing the UN Convention Against05
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‘Acknowledging the significant contribution of Black culture and individuals’.This summer, Somerset House is celebrating the impact of 50 years of Black creativity in Britain – and beyond – with an exhibition showcasing art, film, photography, music, literature, design and fashion.The04
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The case for investing in the rights and advancement of girls and women is clear.
A 2019 Global Report “Harnessing the power of data for gender equality: Introducing the 2019 EM2030 SDG Gender Index” has been launched at the ongoing Women Deliver conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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Protection of migrant women victims of violence was established by the Human Rights Act 1998.A research report produced by King’s College London, the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS), and the Step Up Migrant Women coalition was launched earlier this month at an event in London’s23
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The inadequate provision of public loos is a threat to health, mobility and equality.In recent decades increasing pressure on local authority budgets has led to the privatisation or closure of many public toilets.In a YouGov UK survey in 2017, 59 per cent of women reported that they regularly26
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“Female Genital Mutilation is a deeply abhorrent practice”The Scottish government published its ‘Female Genital Mutilation Bill’ last month, aimed at enhancing protection for women and girls who are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation.Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM), a procedure which24
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“The next step is to put these protections into practice.”A new Convention and accompanying Recommendation to combat violence and harassment in the world of work have been adopted by the International Labour Conference (ILC), the UN’s agency dealing with world of work issues.Conventions are20
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Staff should never have to face any kind of abuse, let alone sexually motivated insults and attacks.Nurses, care assistants, cleaners and other NHS staff have suffered lewd sexual insults, groping and even rape while at work, according to research published by UNISON, the trade union for people18
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The government ‘is content to tolerate practices that trash the environment and exploit workers’.The Environmental Audit Committee has published the Government Response to its report ‘Fixing Fashion Report: Clothing Consumption and Sustainability‘.The Committee’s report, published in February14
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Repeal Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Persons Act.Following the referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment in the Republic of Ireland last year, women in Northern Ireland will soon be the only women in the UK and Ireland who cannot access abortion when they need to.In Northern13
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The failure to prosecute and deter rape makes us all less safe.The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) has begun legal action against the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claiming that the CPS has covertly changed its policy and practice in relation to decision-making on rape cases –10
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We can’t have a Prime Minster who refuses to take responsibility for the UK’s part to play in this emergency.Noga Levy-Rapoport has started a petition addressed to the ‘Conservative Party Leadership Candidates and 11 others’ calling on the Conservative leadership candidates to hold a debate on05
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The UK provides no legal remedy for those who are denied the right to food.A reportHuman Rights Watch released recently has examined how the shocking rise in food poverty and the government’s failure to ensure that England’s poorest families and children do not go hungry has intersected with a30
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It is simply not yet possible to say that self-identification as a principle represents best practice.Women and Girls in Scotland is a grassroots, feminist, women’s campaign group, including working class women, LGBT women, survivors of male violence and mothers formed to campaign for the28
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New inquiry particularly interested in participation of those who work with women and girls.The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has announced a new investigation into institutional responses to child sexual abuse and exploitation in the context of religious organisations and21
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Workplaces are not doing enough to prevent or adequately respond to misconduct.Following the largest-ever global survey of legal professionals, a new International Bar Association (IBA) report has identified startling rates of bullying and sexual harassment in the legal profession and has made25
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Ask if they are ok. Tell someone. Call the police.On New Year’s Day 2019 Karen Ingala Smith recorded the 1,000th woman killed by a man on the website Counting Dead Women which she started seven years ago.As of 15 June 2019 at least 47 women in the UK have been killed by men – or a man is the24
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Kids can’t wait for new income supplement: we must act sooner than 2022.More than 70 leaders and organisations and academics from Scottish society have joined together to call on the First Minister to speed up the introduction of a new income supplement to tackle child poverty.Women’s groups19
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UK law ‘is too vague to provide adequate protection against the arbitrary use of police powers’.Over the last eight years the Network For Police Monitoring, (Netpol), has campaigned to highlight the increasing evidence that the police are categorising campaigners as ‘domestic extremists’18
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Unless we take the CPS to court, this will continue. And it needs to not continue.The Centre for Women’s Justice launched a second judicial review this week against the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), this time on behalf of Emily Hunt – who has waived her anonymity – to challenge the14
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The continued lack of funding “reflects the deeply entrenched inequalities of power”.It is estimated that on average less than USD2 is allocated to each woman or girl at risk of gender-based violence – or male on female violence – in crisis and conflict settings by gender-based violence (GBV)13
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‘We call upon the NSPCC to continue to safeguard our children in a thoughtful and considered way’.
The Safe Schools Alliance UK recently sent an open letter to Peter Wanless, CEO of the NSPCC, outlining their concerns about Munroe Bergdorf being an LGBT+ Ambassador for Childline.
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‘There has been a noticeable increase in cases linked to Romania’.Latest figures released by the Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) show that in 2018 advice or support related to a possible forced marriage was given in 1,764 cases.A forced marriage is one in which one or both spouses do not – or, in04
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The enormous achievements in the response to HIV is one of the best examples of multilateralism in action.A new report from António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, Galvanising global ambition to end the AIDS epidemic after a decade of progress, has been presented to United30
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What are the UK government’s plans to effectively implement the recommendations?The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.Described as an international bill of rights28
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Cash raised from this unpopular levy should only to be donated to organisations dedicated to women.In 2015, the money collected from VAT on period products, known as the Tampon Tax, was pledged to go to women’s charities.But numerous women’s charities have since reported that they have not20
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We need to send a clear message that this type of behaviour is not OK.A new survey by global children’s charity Plan International UK has found that more than half – 52 per cent – of girls and young women in Wales have experienced unwanted sexual attention, unwanted sexual or physical contact