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And there is still no evacuation plan in place for residents close to the Preston New Road site.
Talk Fracking has issued a pre-action legal letter to the Secretary of State for Local Government for ‘clear failure to conduct a strategic environmental assessment’.
That is for:
Failure to adhere to existing Climate Change Act 2008 obligations to reduce greenhouse emissions;
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‘He’ll wake up with £1500 in his account and piss off with it, leaving us with nothing…’The House of Commons’ Work and Pensions Select Committee has added its voice to those of wmen’s groups and other campaigners who have been saying for some time that single household payments of Universal08
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Various groups now look after pets while their owners flee domestic abuse or stay in refuges.In homes where there is violence and abuse, pets are often threatened, injured or killed by violent men to maintain control over their partners and children.In a survey of 50 women pet owners living07
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Those who are paid to protect, defend, support and represent disabled people, should be apologisingDisability charities have helped the government cover up the reason it was forced to announce changes to rules that prevented thousands of disabled people with invisible impairments secure blue02
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Does it create an unfair burden on people to enforce their right not to be discriminated against?The Women and Equalities Committee has launched an inquiry into the enforcement of the Equality Act 2010 – legislation which was designed to “provide a legal framework to protect the rights of01
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It completely fails to recognise the lived experiences of survivors of domestic abuse.Rape Crisis England & Wales and Women’s Aid have requested permission to intervene – an application to make a submission which raises an issue of public importance – in the Child Poverty Action Group’s27
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Two-child limit and the freeze on children’s benefits ‘the most damaging welfare reform on children’s outcomes’.Statistics published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently showed that 71,000 families lost entitlement to child allowances in tax credits or universal credit in the26
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“It is a national scandal that so many women are dying in our hospitals after being subjected to restraint.”Thirty-two women have died over a five-year period after experiencing restraint, according to new figures obtained by Agenda, an alliance of more than 70 organisations who have come25
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Please consider submitting a sentence or two, a paragraph or two or an essay.The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hate Crime launched an inquiry entitled ‘How do we build community cohesion when hate crime is on the rise?’ in March this year.The inquiry aims to gather evidence of how hate19
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The Irish parliament is celebrating Irish women in nineteenth century politics and public life.Along with women in England, Scotland and Wales, 1918 was the first time any Irish women were permitted by law to vote and stand in parliamentary elections.To mark the centenary, the Houses of the10
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‘There can be no justification not to act unless the aim is to punish women having a legal abortion.’Women in England should be allowed to take misoprostol – the second drug used to effect an early medical abortion – just like our peers in Scotland and Wales, argue healthcare leaders, in an04
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Calls for major reform and an evaluation of the entire suite of ‘hostile environment’ measures.The appalling treatment of the Windrush generation and their descendants shows the need for root and branch reform to the Home Office’s culture, policy and approach to immigration, the Home Affairs09
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Or to give it its full title: Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West.Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included in the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices?By examining the role of common beauty08
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Some companies have obscene and entirely unacceptable gender pay gaps of more than 40 per cent.The UK has one of the highest gender pay gaps in Europe and pay reporting can only be the first step in closing it, the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee said in their recent report03
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Podcasts aim to inspire listeners to hold governments accountable to the Paris Agreement.Doc Society has launched a new, feminist, climate justice podcast series called ‘Mothers of Invention’.It is hosted by the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, and comedian Maeve Higgins – they02
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2018
If you don’t have a culture of victim support, you do, in effect, have a culture of perpetrator support.In April Purna Sen, UN Women’s Director of the Policy Division, was appointed the UN Women Executive Coordinator and Spokesperson on Addressing Sexual Harassment and Other Forms of31
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Why are women more likely to be poorer than men?Poverty is a gendered experience.Women face specific challenges in achieving financial security for themselves and their families, including low paid work, unaffordable childcare, high housing costs and financial abuse.The position of women in27
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No child groomed and manipulated into sexual abuse ‘complied with their abuse’.On 24 July 2018 senior judges ruled the archaic ‘same roof rule’, which has denied some sexual abuse survivors Criminal Injuries Compensation, is incompatible with human rights law, after one survivor took her case26
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‘Government, regulators and employers have been dodging their responsibilities for far too long.’The government, regulators and employers are failing in their responsibilities to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace, the Women and Equalities Committee have said in a report they released24
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And anti-Muslim hate at street level ‘male on female abuse and anti-Muslim hatred and bigotry’.For many years now the Muslim communities in the UK have suffered anti-Muslim incidents. A project called Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks (MAMA) now allows people from across England to report any form16
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The state ‘cannot continue its increasing reliance on the family’.The current social care system is putting pressure on families to step in and provide care for relatives where the state does not.Such family care is an essential element of the current overall system of social care yet it is09
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A declaration of intent.Every year global cross-border movements continue to exact a devastating toll on human life both on land and at sea.But while some of the dead have been counted, many more are missing.And the names of most of the dead and missing are not known; their families have04
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Please email your MP and ask them to attend.For many years, until at least the 1980s, pregnancy outside marriage was severely frowned upon, and frequently young women who found themselves in this situation were given little choice but to give in to the strong pressures which were exerted on09
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And grassroots groups in Northern Ireland are looking at ways to mark the record-breaking date.If nothing changes before, on 28 August Northern Ireland could break the world record for the longest time a state has not had a government.The lack of a Northern Ireland Executive after its07
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Recording the suffragette history connected to listed buildings.100 years on from the first women in the country being granted the right to vote, women’s history is still under-represented in national records.But through its HerStories project, Historic England has been working with03
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2018
Major supermarkets must do more to end human suffering in supply chains.Millions of women and men who produce our food are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, despite billion-dollar profits in the food industry, a new report published by Oxfam has revealed.The report, ‘Ripe
Disappointing lack of progress on EU and UK legislation fighting violence against women. On 13 June 2018, the first anniversary of the signature of the Istanbul Convention by the European Union (EU), the European Coalition to End Violence against Women and Girlsreported its regrets that strong30
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Recognise that women-only services are better able to meet the needs of women.The Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) has now published the report which is a follow-up to their ‘why women?’ campaign launched in November 2006.This research was carried out to highlight the importance of and the need27
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No woman should die while giving life.Earlier this year, World Population Day celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Teheran Proclamation, which affirmed the right to family planning, and the basic right of parents “to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their25
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Women and girls should be able enjoy their basic right to feel safe in their everyday lives.Women are still being “failed” in many areas of life, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned in its largest ever review of women’s rights.In its new report, Pressing for progress23
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The UK government has released its draft regulations and guidance on sex and relationship education in schools.The consultation on this is open until 7 November 2018. Please consider responding.The government is now seeking views on the draft regulations, statutory guidance, and regulatory11
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‘We cannot truly stand up to hatred unless we stand up to misogyny in our society.’In the course of just one week in July 1995, 8372 mostly Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in an act of genocide at a place called Srebrenica.This was the final act in a genocidal plan09
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When men commit crime, arrest, charge, record and report them as men.British Transport Police are at present arresting males and allowing them to self-identify as female.The crime is then recorded as a female crime and reported as such to the press.As Jean Hatchet says in the petition she03
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Work can sometimes be the only place someone suffering domestic violence can escape their abuser.One in four women, and one in six men will experience domestic abuse in their lifetime – ranging from coercive control to murder.So all employers will have some people who have faced or are facing