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2020
The government’s purported proposals ‘do not constitute a crisis response’.
The Public Interest Law Centre and Southall Black Sisters have launched a legal challenge to the government’s failure to provide funding for accommodation for domestic abuse survivors during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.
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Apr
2020
We need to send a clear message that street harassment is not okay.One in 5 girls (19 per cent) have experienced street harassment during lockdown, a new survey by global children’s charity Plan International UK has revealed.As the UK comes to the end of its 6th week in lockdown, the poll of
Women are most likely bearing the biggest health risks from the coronavirus crisis.Working women are most likely to be bearing the health risks from coronavirus by being key workers, while young people and the low-paid are most likely to work in sectors of the economy that have been shut down23
Apr
2020
End the two-child limit and the benefit cap: they are ‘arbitrary and unfair’.In a letter in The Guardian newspaper, published on 21 April, 50 campaigners – women’s rights groups, anti-poverty groups, Trade Union leaders, and religious leaders – have called for the government to end Universal21
Apr
2020
We are all very grateful to all the frontline staff in health and social care.A one-minute silence for the frontline health and social care workers lost to the Coronavirus has been scheduled for 28 April.The minute’s silence, which coincides with International Workers’ Memorial Day, will14
Apr
2020
Ease the pressing burdens families are experiencing in these unprecedented times.With millions of families facing a catastrophic loss of income due to the coronavirus, 85 leading social policy academics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and universities throughout the UK, have signed a08
Apr
2020
“Women must be able to access safe and effective contraception during the COVID-19 outbreak.”The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) has just issued advice for women who need to get a new or repeat prescription for contraception.Because of the social distancing rules07
Apr
2020
‘The health and safety of workers remains paramount.’The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have issued an unprecedented joint call for employers to ensure safe working conditions for their staff during the ongoing02
Apr
2020
“Allowing home use will avoid unnecessary and risky visits to healthcare facilities.”The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) are calling on Northern Ireland’s health minister, Robin Swann, to temporarily permit31
Mar
2020
The UK’s sick pay system is “manifestly inadequate”.The GMB, ‘the trade union for everyone’, has warned that the UK’s care system is in danger of “total collapse” because of the coronavirus health crisis, and has issued five demands to the government to support care workers.The GMB has30
Mar
2020
We “cannot stand by while our members are exposed to unnecessary risk or driven into destitution.”The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is taking legal action against the government over its failure to protect the wages and jobs of millions of workers during the Covid-1910
Mar
2020
Leaders also identified specific means for tackling the gaps and challenges.In a Political Declaration adopted by Member States commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, leaders pledged to ramp up efforts to fully implement the Beijing29
Apr
2020
Covid-19 is a deadly reminder that armed force cannot make us safe.Nineteen charities and NGOs have called for the billions of pounds currently spent on the UK’s armed force to be used instead to tackle Covid-19 and related problems.In an open letter, they said that ‘defence’ and ‘security’28
Apr
2020
It is essential that the time limits in discrimination and harassment cases are extended as a matter of urgency.Heads of more than 20 organisations have written to the government to call for the temporary extension of time limits for harassment and discrimination claims to the Employment22
Apr
2020
“How many more deaths must we see before the government wakes up to this new reality?”Hotels and over 30 charities have issued a joint call to the government to help women and children escape abuse, as statistics suggest the rates are rising.Women’s charities are concerned that during the20
Apr
2020
“Stalking victims need support as much as ever and we want to reiterate our message that we are here to support you.”Approximately 1.5 million people in England and Wales are victims of stalking every year. And stalking can have devastating consequences: Alice Ruggles and Shana Grice were09
Apr
2020
Before the lockdown, the UK’s women were underpaid by £126 billion.What can we expect when the world wakes up again?In the post-pandemic world of work, might we return to something better than normal by closing the gender gaps that have prevailed over the last half century? This is the big08
Apr
2020
Please submit your evidence by 12 noon on 21 April 2020.The Home Affairs Committee has issued a further call for evidence to inform their inquiry into Home Office preparedness for COVID-19 in addition to the topics announced on 3 March 2020.The Committee is now inviting submissions on03
Apr
2020
Staff are being exposed to unreasonable and unnecessary risk by the ongoing failure.The heads of seven of Britain’s health and social care unions have warned ministers that the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and social care workers faced with tackling Covid-19 is a01
Apr
2020
Ensure victims are treated as victims first: prioritise safety before immigration status.More than 20 BME specialist frontline services, migrant and human rights organisations have written to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, calling for emergency support to help migrant victims of domestic31
Mar
2020
We need to understand the present and future effect on those who may already be marginalised.The Women and Equalities Committee wants to hear about the different and disproportionate impact that the Coronavirus – and the measures being taken to tackle it – is having on people with protected
Loyalty towards fellow officers may be getting in the way of justice for women who report abuse.The Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) has submitted a super-complaint to The Police Inspectorate highlighting systemic failures women are experiencing when reporting domestic abuse perpetrated by10
Mar
2020
High standards ‘should be not only consistently observed but also demonstrably valued’.In September 2019 the Committee on Standards in Public Life published an open letter to all public office holders on the importance of maintaining high standards and of implementing the seven Nolan29
Apr
2020
How does negative body image affect different people?The Women and Equalities Committee wants to hear from a range of people and organisations on what causes poor body image and how people’s body image is impacted by companies, advertisements, social media and government policy.Awareness of24
Apr
2020
And asking the government to pay proper attention to what women need.Over 60 charities have come together to call for immediate action from the UK government to properly support women and girls during the COVID-19 outbreak.Existing inequalities mean that women are set to be disproportionatelyWe need to dramatically reform this sector.By Lola McEvoyThe army of key workers in social care make up one of the largest low-paid workforces in the UK.Despite their essential role, over a million people work long shifts, performing emotionally and physically draining tasks, for poor14
Apr
2020
There will be additional challenges for women and women’s services.The Women’s Budget Group (WBG) has produced a briefing that sets out the immediate impact that the Covid-19 crisis is having on women.It needs to be addressed.Covid-19 is a global public health crisis which is fast09
Apr
2020
Key actions that all governments can take to address the gendered dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis.As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies and the implications of its affects on women become more clear, members of the 2018 and 2019 G7 Gender Equality Advisory Councils have called on the G7 member07
Apr
2020
Most injunction hearings will take place by telephone.If you’ve been the victim of domestic violence you can apply for an ‘injunction’, which is a court order that either:protects you or your child from being harmed or threatened by the person who’s abused you – this is called a
There is a lack of public awareness of the Silent Solution system.Did you know there is a system which helps a person in imminent danger but unable to speak phone the police?It is known as the Silent Solution system, and it means a 999 mobile caller who is too scared to make a noise, or01
Apr
2020
Taxpayers’ money is being spent without consideration of the specific challenges women are facing.
A wide range of women’s organisations have signed a joint call for women and girls to be made visible, to be heard and have their needs met during the Coronavirus crisis response.
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2020
Our country is relying on workers deemed as ‘low-skilled’.By Kelly GrehanOver the last few days, we have entered a world that feels very different to that which we unknowingly enjoyed just weeks ago.It seems like a lifetime ago now – but just a month ago headlines were concerned with Home11
Mar
2020
“We need to pinpoint the exact causes of these disparities in order to tackle them.”The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has called for the government to tackle the issues related to racial disparities in women’s healthcare in the UK.And it said swift action is needed09
Mar
2020
“…it is entirely possible that opportunities to prevent further deaths or harm have been missed.”The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Stephen Timms MP, has written to Thérèse Coffey MP, who is the Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, about the Department’s