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Launched of attempt to tackle sexual assault and harassment on London’s transport networks. The 2,000 police officers who monitor London’s buses, trains and underground have been trained to deal with sexual offences and victims as part of Project Guardian, which was launched on 22 July. Project Guardian was set up after Transport for London’s 2012...Leggi Tutto
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New research has found that women know less about politics than men, even in wealthy countries. The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, revealed that the gap in political awareness is actually the widest in affluent countries and countries that promote gender equality. The UK
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Supporters of a charity in Coventry will be sleeping rough to raise funds. The Kairos Sleepout is a fundraising event where a team of staff, volunteers and Friends of Kairos Women Working Together (WWT) will be sleeping rough in a car park in Central Coventry. And they need more people to join
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The debate about whether breast is best goes back further than you might think. The biomedical industry certainly threw fuel on the fiery debate about infant feeding when it began developing alternatives to human milk in the late nineteenth-century. But don’t think that’s when the discussions over
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Baby-led weaning is simple. It is about teaching a child how to feed itself, when it is hungry. Science, health and fitness are subjects of interest to me, and I marvel at the engineering and care, management and repair facilities of the human body, so making the decision to breastfeed my baby was
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Threats are simply not acceptable; Twitter pledges to do more to tackle abusive behaviour. The classicist and TV presenter professor Mary Beard has been sent a bomb threat on Twitter hours after Twitter’s UK boss apologised to women who have received abusive Tweets. And Beard, who has been sent
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More than 80,000 people sign petition for return of the ‘Tour de France Feminin’. You may not know this but the Tour de France has a reigning women’s champion in the shape of British cyclist Emma Pooley. She won the race in 2009, and since it hasn’t been staged since, technically she
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Victims of trafficking are often treated like criminals rather than victims of crime. Guest post from Eaves Man Charitable Trust has been supporting Eaves’ Poppy Project over the last two years through funding a specialist Prisons and Detention Centres Outreach Worker in addition to supporting
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This weekend in London there’s a festival dedicated to feminist sci-fi films. Called Women on the Edge of Time, it promises futuristic “worlds free of sexism”. Tellingly, time-travel movies are absent from the programme. And as Anna Smith writes in the Guardian, ‘From The
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But does UK policy indirectly continue to support it? Between 1999 and 2012, Panzi Hospital, in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) treated 19,270 survivors of sexualized violence. The hospital’s medical director and international advocate for survivors of rape in conflict, Dr Denis
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Harriet Harman asks Britain’s national newspapers to report on female journalists over 50. Harriet Harman has been hard at work since heading up the Labour party’s Commission on Older Women, established last year. The commission was set up to focus on three key areas – older women in the
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Twitter backlash over online abuse of Caroline Criado-Perez goes mainstream. After announcing the success of her campaign to get the Bank of England to keep a picture of a woman on British banknotes, campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, co-founder of The Women’s Room, was sent hundreds of rape
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Help needs to be about finding the right way for a mother to feed her child. The general consensus is that in the majority of cases breast feeding gives a baby the best possible start in life. So what happens when breast feeding simply doesn’t work for a mother and her baby? I spoke with
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The difference between the ranges of clothing available for men and women… Guest post by Connie Cramp. For almost two years now I have been working in a well-known shop specialising in outdoor equipment. I took the job because I grew up in a family that had a passion for the outdoors, and I
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Show respect to benefits claimants and the unemployed. Respect for Benefits Claimants and the Unemployed aims to bring together groups of claimants campaigning against cuts and combat the negative stories that appear all too regularly in most of the press about them. Its Facebook page shares news
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Some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Art: Until 8 September: Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper) at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Mall, London, SW1Y ‘Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper)’ explores how artists from the
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Homeless women have specific needs which the sector does not seem particularly good at meeting. St Mungo’s run accommodation and support projects for homeless people. ‘Rebuilding Shattered Lives’ is its current national 18-month campaign to raise awareness of women’s homelessness, to
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Exploring what other cultures can teach us about supporting women as they become mothers. When the government released statistics last month revealing the first fall in UK mothers initiating breastfeeding since the collection of data started in 2004, a number of news agencies reported the
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Campaigners renew calls for community sentences and support for women’s centres. In 2006, after six women died in the Styal prison in Cheshire, Baroness Jean Corston was commissioned to provide recommendations on ways to keep vulnerable women out of prison. She made 43 recommendations and called
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Today marks the start of International Breastfeeding Week 1 – 7 August. World Breastfeeding Week was first held in 1992 and it is now observed in over 120 countries with support from UNICEF and WHO, along with governments, organisations and individuals. The event is organised by the World
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One of the important features of our campaign is giving survivors the opportunity to shout back. Guest blog from Everyday Victim Blaming. In case you’ve been hidden away, Caroline Criado-Perez of The Women’s Room, started a petition and a fund raiser to get the Bank of England (BoE) to Keep a Woman
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Disastrous performances prompt widespread calls for grassroots rethink. A couple of weeks ago I was lauding the launch of Kick off Your Career, the new initiative to get women involved in all aspects of football. I cooed over the glossy brochure, the high profile unveiling by the Football
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Welcome to our bulletin of the news and results from British women’s sport this week. Athletics: Britain’s women excelled at the IPC Athletics World Championships this week in Lyon. The undoubted star was Hannah Cockcroft, who completed the sprint double. She took the T34 100m in 17.88
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A few weeks ago, for the very first time, I breastfed my baby in public. Guest post from Cassandra Fox. Nothing to trouble the squeamish – I was just sat in a cafe, amongst a clientèle largely made up of other mothers, with a strategically-placed muslin cloth saving my modesty. For many
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Calling on the Crown Prosecution Service @cpsuk: take action over “sexual predator” court comments. Guest post from Jo at Everyday Victim Blaming. Trigger warning: this petition text contains references to sexual assault that may be triggering to survivors. Yesterday, a man walked free from
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Exotification – I’m not your Pretty Little Lotus Flower. Guest post by Joy Goh-Mah Joy’s Story “I love Asian women!” “Asian women are so hot.” “Japan, Korea, China?” “Asian women know how to treat a man!” Do any of these phrases sound familiar to you? If they do, congratulations, you’ve come across
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Welcome back to our weekly bulletin of British women’s sporting results from around the globe. Judo: A year to the day since she won bronze at London 2012, Britain’s most decorated international judoka Karina Bryant has announced her retirement from professional judo. The 34 year-old
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Portraying women as nothing more than objects to be looked at is unacceptable in the 21st century. The UK’s biggest teaching union, the National Union of Teachers (NUT), has thrown its backing behind the campaign calling on David Dinsmore, Editor of the Sun, to drop page 3. The support comes as the
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Holding the private sector to account or holding critics at bay? Margaret Hodge, MP, chair of the UK government’s public accounts committee, has confirmed that there will be two new reviews into the UK Border Agency’s COMPASS contract and into private sector delivery of public services
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Alison Saunders takes over as Director of Public Prosecutions later this year. Last week the Crown Prosecution Service announced that Alison Saunders would be the new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), and will take over from Keir Starmer in November. She will be the head of the Crown
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Award-winning screenwriter, feminist, columnist and theorist Elaine Morgan has died. A coal-miner’s daughter, born Elaine Floyd, Morgan studied English literature and language at Oxford before teaching for the Workers’ Educational Asscociation (WEA). Determined that her bookish only child
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Women are being failed by the very systems that promised to protect them. As news spreads of how huge outsourcing companies like G4S are failing to deliver on public service contracts, a new project aims to tell the human story behind the headlines. In the last few weeks, accounts of the
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The stigma and marginalisation faced by sex workers often leaves them excluded from conversations about violence against women. As reported last week on this site, on 19 July an International Day of Protest was held in reaction to the murders of Dora Ozer and Petite Jasmine. On 21 July, just two
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An artist making ground-breaking and enigmatic work since her first exhibitions in the mid-1960s. The Serpentine Gallery is currently presenting Leaps Jumps and Bumps, the first solo exhibition of the work of Elaine Sturtevant to be held in a public institution in the UK. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, in