17
Mag
2018
Tackling harmful gender stereotypes in advertising.
The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has launched a public consultation on a new rule to tackle harmful gender stereotypes in advertisements, and on guidance to advertisers on how the new rule is likely to be interpreted in practice.
The purpose of this announcement is to make public the proposed rule and guidance, which includes examples of gender portrayals which are likely to fall foul of the new rule.
Leggi tutto17
Mag
2018
“Equality won’t happen on its own. That can only change if we take proactive steps to change it.”The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched a new scheme to tackle the lack of women leaders.The initiative, called ‘Our Time: Supporting Future Leaders’, the first and largest-scale programme
There is clearly an urgent need to consider how to increase support and protection for migrant women.Migrant women living in the UK are disproportionately at risk from gendered violence including domestic violence, sexual violence, ‘honour-based’ violence, forced marriage, FGM and03
Mag
2018
“The whole system has to change so that other women don’t die.”Still Dying on the Inside: Examining deaths in women’s prisons, a new report released this week by the charity INQUEST, is calling for urgent action to save the lives of women in prison.The report documents the inappropriate use01
Mag
2018
“To get to where we are today, we’ve had to fight every step of the way. And we have to carry on fighting now.”For 2018, the centenary year of (some) women first getting the vote in parliamentary elections the Fawcett Society has brought together a new edition of the Sex and Power30
Apr
2018
Report recommends change in abortion law in Northern Ireland.Northern Ireland’s inter-departmental working group on the termination of pregnancies in fatal foetal abnormality cases published its report last week.It has recommended ‘that a change is made to abortion law to provide for26
Apr
2018
“Ask them if they’re ok and keep asking.”A new campaign to show how important a positive intervention can be for someone experiencing or who has experienced violence against women, domestic abuse or sexual violence was launched in Wales recently with a powerful short film featuring the words of24
Apr
2018
Bookshops around the country will be highlighting the diversity of feminist books.In celebration of Vote 100, the hundredth anniversary of (some) women in the UK getting the vote, a group of radical and independent bookshops is launching Feminist Book Fortnight, a celebration of feminist17
Apr
2018
Calls for urgent overhaul of the scheme governing compensation for victims of crime.The Ministry of Justice has a statutory duty to compensate blameless victims of violent crime through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS).But a number of outdated rules governing this scheme have12
Apr
2018
‘The misogyny in our society will not go away unchallenged’.At their Belfast rally against rape trials failing victims last Thursday, Belfast Feminist Network announced that now was the start of a movement to change how Northern Ireland’s criminal justice system deals with sexual assault11
Apr
2018
‘Abortion is part and parcel of women’s healthcare. It should be regulated and delivered as such’.Women in the UK with medical conditions including epilepsy, heart problems, and cancer struggle to obtain abortion care, even though the continuation of their pregnancy poses a significant threat09
Apr
2018
Women are not seen as a “key target” for HIV interventions.Around a third of the around 90,000 people living with HIV in the UK are women, and a quarter of all new HIV diagnoses are in women, yet women living with and affected by HIV have been mainly invisible in the narrative and response to15
Mag
2018
Fifty years ago, it became official: Family planning is a human right.Fifty years ago, on 13 May, the world declared family planning to be a basic human right.Throughout all of human history, efforts to plan, avoid or delay pregnancy had been a private struggle endured by women and girls. But09
Mag
2018
Include perpetration of abuse as a breach of tenancy.Seven women a month are killed by a current or former partner in England and Wales and, every year, nearly 2 million people in the UK experience domestic abuse.SafeLives, a national charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, and the03
Mag
2018
The resistance from the Department of Work and Pensions to instituting recording is ‘bewildering’.The Work and Pensions Committee has published the government’s response to the committee’s two reports on PIP and ESA assessments.The Committee’s final report was published in February, and01
Mag
2018
‘Victims did not proceed because they were ordered to contribute to the legal costs’ and could not do so.More than 6,000 domestic abuse victims in England have been unable to get emergency court orders stopping their abusers from harming them, according to the National Centre for Domestic28
Apr
2018
Women's Views on News is a not-for-profit blog which generates no revenue from advertising and accepts no money from corporate or political interests. The only source of revenue is the donate via Paypal box at the top of the home page. If you could afford to make a donation to help keep the site
25
Apr
2018
The government should guarantee basic rights at work for all workers.Millions of people now work on precarious contracts, which means workers face the constant threat of losing future work, as well as having to make themselves available with no guarantee of hours, and pay.And employers have23
Apr
2018
Calls for an independent review of how the criminal justice system handles sexual violence cases.Victim Support NI, along with Women’s Aid Federation NI, the Men’s Advisory Project, and Nexus NI, published a letter in the press on 17 April 2018, calling for ‘an immediate review’ of the way13
Apr
2018
Local councils have enormous power to help end violence against women and girls.On 3 May 2018 there are local and mayoral elections in many parts of England.And as the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) points out in their election pledge campaign, those who get elected have real12
Apr
2018
Ann Oakley will be speaking about Women, Peace and Welfare at the Bristol Festival of Ideas.Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries. They were driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism, rather than warfare10
Apr
2018
Many kinship carers are left in poverty, isolated and having to battle to just make ends meet.A new survey of over 500 kinship carers – grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members and friends who have taken on care of children who are not able to live with their parents – has revealed04
Apr
2018
You can hold your employer to account for what they are doing.By midnight 4 April 2018 every company with more than 250 employees will have had to report the details of their gender pay gap statistics – the difference between what men and women earn throughout their organisation – and why – and15
Mag
2018
Let’s do this for our sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, cousins, aunts, friends…From the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign:It’s hard to believe that long-awaited day – 25 May 2018 – is nearly here.But as we see pictures of posters and hear from concerned folks back home, we all know08
Mag
2018
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by conflict but are also key to its resolution.About 150 representatives from UN Member States, regional and international organisations and civil society from around the world met in Berlin, Germany, for the annual capital-level Women, Peace and02
Mag
2018
‘An important day for all Scottish students’.New practical guidance for universities has been published as a toolkit to help Scottish universities and colleges tackle gender-based harassment and violence on campuses.It was developed by Strathclyde University and in collaboration with a range30
Apr
2018
Gender discrimination and bullying, and high levels of sexual harassment were reported.The Incorporated Society of Musicians, (ISM), the UK’s professional body for musicians, has released its report into the level of sexual harassment, discrimination, bullying and inappropriate behaviour in the26
Apr
2018
Women lose about £400 per year on average, and men only £30, for example.The final report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s research project looking at the effect of tax, welfare, social security and public spending has been released.The research looked at all of the changes25
Apr
2018
The proportion of MPs in the pocket of the Prime Minister would be at record levels.Slashing the number of MPs could result in an ’unprecedented power-grab’ by the government, and would lead to ‘most overbearing executive in living history’ campaigners have warned.The Electoral Reform Society23
Apr
2018
Protests by the UK’s Indian diaspora greeted Indian PM Narendra Modi.“Narendra Modi is to visit Britain for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM),” a spokesperson of the South Asia Solidarity Group explained.“When he last visited the UK in 2015 he was met with massive13
Apr
2018
Spaces free of fear, free of bullying and harassment of any kind.Equity, the UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners, which represents 43,000 people in the entertainment industry, has launched its new initiative to tackle the entertainment industry’s sexual11
Apr
2018
We need an honest conversation about what birth can mean for some mothers – and effective care.Figures released as part of Mumsnet’s Campaign for Better Postnatal Care have revealed how many mothers struggle with painful sex and problems with continence months or years after their babies were10
Apr
2018
The consequence is debilitating debt and hunger – which is known to damage mental and physical healthIn an letter published in the The Times recently, Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders called for the policy limiting benefits to families with more than two children to be scrapped.The29
Mar
2018
Women in Scotland are already able to take misoprostol at home.Every day, women are forced to travel immediately after taking abortion pills, meaning many experience symptoms while they are still on public transport or on their way home.This is because the 1967 Abortion Act states that women