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Publicly denounce the impunity of perpetrators and the governments’ lack of commitment.
Spanish feminists have created a campaign and Manifesto Against the Trade in Women’s Bodies.
We are called upon to sign and share widely, Sisters.
They are seeking support, and collecting signatures, with their petition – which is available in several languages- in the run-up to 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
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Employers should have a duty to protect women employees from clients, contractors, or patients who harass.New research from the Fawcett Society has found that one year on from the outpouring of #MeToo stories, there has been a significant shift in attitudes to sexual harassment.According to01
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It’s really worrying that people of all ages think that it’s not OK to withdraw consent.A survey by sexual health charity FPA revealed that deeply concerning attitudes about sexual consent seem to be prevalent in all age groups in the UK.FPA is now calling for high-quality relationships and28
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Shale gas ‘is not needed to ensure the UK’s security of supply’.On Monday dozens of women dressed as Suffragettes are expected to travel from across the country to a rally outside this year’s Conservative party conference in Birmingham to highlight public opposition to fracking and the proposed27
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Women, BME workers and young workers are all under-represented in union positions.In their Equality Audit 2018, the TUC has looked at the practical steps trade unions are taking to ensure they reflect the diversity of the workforce.The result has provided examples of how unions are recruiting20
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UK women’s health ranked 18th lowest out of 28 EU member states for premature death.‘Health Profile for England: 2018‘, published earlier this month by Public Health England (PHE), summarises the health of people in England in 2018 and provides an update to the first Health Profile for England18
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Many young women still have more limited opportunities than their male counterparts.The Young Women’s Trust’s 2018 annual survey, It’s (still) a Rich Man’s World, once again shows that young women remain more likely than young men to be affected by job insecurity, money worries and debt.Leggi04
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The editor is going off-line for a few days.
So WVoN will be quiet for a few days.
Aiming to be back online Tuesday next week.
Our facebook page always likes being visited and liked…
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Those needing an abortion after being raped could face a longer prison sentence than their attacker.Alliance for Choice launched a social media campaign last week asking people in Northern Ireland to write to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Penny Mordaunt, urging her to support abortion22
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Committee invites responses to its proposals.In a first interim report on its disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committeewarned that we are facing a democratic crisis founded on the manipulation of personal data, and the targeting of pernicious views
‘The people who were causing him terrible problems were the same people he would have had to ask for help’.Civil liberties and human rights campaign group Liberty has called for civilian police to investigate all military crimes after the Coroner in Private Sean Benton’s inquest delivered a16
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Challenge the cynicism of companies seeking to profit from women working for women’s equality.Women’s campaign groups, equalities organisations, and individual gender advocates in Scotland do amazing things, often with very limited resources, and little attention.Scottish feminist03
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Challenging poverty means challenging women’s inequality at work.Guest post from Close the Gap.One of the key messages of this year’s Challenge Poverty Week is that poverty affects us all. At Close the Gap, we know that it affects women. We know this because the evidence shows that poverty in01
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Women face possible removal or deportation to a country where they have no connection and leaving family behind.Foreign national women in the criminal justice system, including trafficking victims, are facing inappropriate imprisonment and the threat of deportation with insufficient28
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Since its 2013 promises of hope, H&M has reworded its commitment to workers.In November 2013, H&M – one of the world’s largest retailers, with 4,801 shops worldwide – announced that all “H&M’s strategic suppliers should have pay structures in place to pay a fair living wage by 201824
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Access to male-free services is essential: a woman’s trauma response doesn’t care how someone identifies.The UK government is currently asking the public whether it should expand the terms of the Gender Recognition Act in ways that would allow any male who says he feels he is a woman to gain a20
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‘We stand at a truly “use it or lose it” moment.’Amid record-breaking temperatures in parts of the world, and with the past two decades the warmest on record, on 10 September the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, delivered a major address at the UN’s headquarters in New17
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The Committee would like to hear from as diverse a range of views as possible.The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, chaired by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, has launched an inquiry into the social care system in England and invites written contributions to its investigation.The Committee04
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“It was clear though that nobody knew about the proposals.”With less than seven weeks to go until the deadline for responses to thegovernment’s consultation on changing the Gender Recognition Act 2004, Fair Play For Women‘s volunteers hit the streets up and down the country last weekend to23
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We are off on holiday for a few days.
There’s loads to look at on our facebook page.
Thanks for your compnay this far!
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Calling for submissions.The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, will undertake an official visit to the Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 6 to 16 November 2018 at the invitation of the UK government.His visit will focus, in17
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Are legacy institutions the best way to try to meet the needs of victims and survivors?The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has launched a UK-wide consultation on ‘Addressing the Legacy of Northern Ireland’s Past’.More than 3,500 people were killed as a result of the Troubles. The hurt and15
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Challenging the view that the development of adult and child sex robots will be a positive benefit to society.Over the last decades, an increasing amount of money and effort from both academia and industry has gone into the development of sex robots – that is, machines in the form of women or03
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The percentage of girls and young women feeling unsafe outside is alarmingly high.Shortly before the furore broke out about Girlguiding’s questionable approach to safeguarding other people’s female children and disregarding parental duties of care, Girlguiding released the results of their now28
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Policy makers often do not take women’s needs into account, leading to policies that don’t work for women.Women throughout the world – still – face inequality throughout their lives. Social expectations about gender roles effect the roles and opportunities for both women and men.These27
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What changed in CPS policy and practice over the last 18 months?The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) put its annual report on prosecuting crimes of violence against women and girls out yesterday – although you wouldn’t know it, because there was no media statement, no spokesperson…What’s in24
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In developing countries the womb-rental industry uses the same criminal strategies as human trafficking networks.British women’s groups have started adding their signatures to those of women’s human rights organisations from 18 countries who have released an international statement to request a18
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‘Basic Income is increasingly seen as one plausible response to modern economic insecurity.’The public now backs Basic Income experiments in local areas by more than two to one, a new poll has found.It also found that 40 per cent of the public would welcome Basic Income experiments in their17
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‘The history of the case is living proof of the dangers of closed hearings.’The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has held that, for a sustained period, successive Foreign Secretaries wrongly gave the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) unfettered discretion to collect vast03
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‘Keeping quiet was easier than complaining’ and ‘nothing would be done if they did complain’.Police chiefs have pledged to act over high levels of sexual harassment among police staff working for police forces in England and Wales which were set out in a combined report published last month by23
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Call for the UK to join the growing number of states supporting a ban on killer robots.Next week, the UK will join more than 70 countries at the sixth international meeting of the group of governmental experts (GGE) in Geneva on the issue of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS), or as they have21
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Give abuse victims the confidence to report crime and their abusers no matter what their status.The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and London’s Victims’ Commissioner, Claire Waxman, have called on the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, to urgently act to protect victims of crime who have insecure16
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But some women don’t get housing benefit: if they work or have ‘no recourse to public funds’.Women escaping domestic abuse will now be able to continue to have their places in women’s refuges paid via the welfare system: the government has dropped its plans to overhaul, read ‘cut off’, funding15
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Only 34 companies in the FTSE 100 are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation for paying the living wage.New research from the High Pay Centre and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has found that a FTSE 100 CEO is now paid an average (median) annual pay of £3.93