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Articles tagged with: women
How to tackle sexism and sexual harassment in schools
Education
By Nina Humphries, UK Feminista
How to tackle sexism and sexual harassment in schools
Sexism and sexual harassment are endemic in UK schools – and girls are demanding action.
Women in Northern Ireland still need help to access safe abortion
Coronavirus
By Dr Laura McLaughlin
Women in Northern Ireland still need help to access safe abortion
The publication today of the Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Northern Ireland by the Northern Ireland Abortion and Contraception Taskgroup (NIACT) marks a year since new regulations for legal abortions, came into force in Northern Ireland. The report provides an evidence base to inform the funding and commissioning of Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) provision, and integrated sexual and reproductive healthcare for the population of Northern Ireland. It is also demonstrates how clinician-led collaborative working can transform sexual and reproductive healthcare despite considerable political resistance.
Protections for migrant women must be included in the Domestic Abuse Bill
Home affairs
By Lucy Mort
Protections for migrant women must be included in the Domestic Abuse Bill
Ministers must back the Lords amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill to ensure migrant women have access to the legal, financial and emotional support they need to escape abuse and rebuild their lives.
To tackle violence against women, we must address its root causes Partner content
Home affairs
By Equality and Human Rights Commission
To tackle violence against women, we must address its root causes
All forms of violence against women and girls are rooted in attitudes and stereotypes about their roles in society. We must look at how our society treats women on the whole, rather than in isolation.
Nobody is protected from coronavirus until everyone is: why we should repeal and replace the Coronavirus Act
Coronavirus
By Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
Nobody is protected from coronavirus until everyone is: why we should repeal and replace the Coronavirus Act
This week marks one year since the UK first went into lockdown and MPs voted to give the Government unprecedented and extraordinary powers under the Coronavirus Act. My thoughts and prayers are with the loved ones of the 127,000 people who have lost their lives since then.
We need to raise better boys and men to prevent stranger murders of women
Home affairs
By Baroness Bertin
We need to raise better boys and men to prevent stranger murders of women
The debate must move on from what women and victims could do differently, to how we stop violent men from reoffending time and again.
Criminalising street harassment and kerb crawling is a much needed first step to keep women and girls safe
Home affairs
By Harriet Harman MP
Criminalising street harassment and kerb crawling is a much needed first step to keep women and girls safe
Currently it’s not a criminal offence for a man in a vehicle to follow a woman or girl; call out to her, film her, try to get her into the vehicle, pester her. That is terrifying and should be an offence punishable by taking away his driving licence.
Calls For Civilian Courts To Deal With Sexual Assault and Abuse Cases Involving The Military, After Damning Evidence
Defence
Calls For Civilian Courts To Deal With Sexual Assault and Abuse Cases Involving The Military, After Damning Evidence
Legal experts have made fresh calls for the armed forces to send rape and sexual assault cases to civilian courts rather than military police and courts, after a litany of long delays, inexperienced staff and a wider culture of hostility towards victims were revealed.
Women’s voices should not be an afterthought in policies about their own safety
Home affairs
By Florence Eshalomi MP
Women’s voices should not be an afterthought in policies about their own safety
The government’s announcement of plain clothed police in clubs to keep women safe completely misses the point. Women need to feel confident that they will be believed when they report harassment.
It’s unacceptable that women are forced to police their own behaviour because men can’t police theirs
Home affairs
By Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
It’s unacceptable that women are forced to police their own behaviour because men can’t police theirs
My suggestion for a 6pm curfew for men incensed people far more than the police telling women not to go out alone. It speaks volumes of our victim blaming culture.
Leaders must learn from the mistakes of the past to help female recruits in future
Defence
By Sarah Atherton MP
Leaders must learn from the mistakes of the past to help female recruits in future
When I became the MP for Wrexham in 2019, the most striking thing for me were the similarities between Parliament and the military.
It’s not just the anonymous trolls: online attacks on women are in plain sight
Social affairs
By Ash Sarkar
It’s not just the anonymous trolls: online attacks on women are in plain sight
It was last summer, on the third day of people wanting to murder me over an orange lolly, that I began to wonder if my mother was right and I should’ve studied medicine after all.
Investing in girls’ education should be at the heart of Britain’s foreign policy
Foreign affairs
By Laura Round
Investing in girls’ education should be at the heart of Britain’s foreign policy
The combined impact of school closures and economic crisis brought on by Covid-19 threaten to entrench educational inequality and roll back two decades of progress on learning.
The Government Glass Ceiling
Political parties
By Kate Proctor
The Government Glass Ceiling
Does Boris Johnson really have a woman problem? It appears no Prime Minister has ever covered themselves in glory when it comes to appointing women to the Cabinet. Kate Proctor crunches the numbers.
Hear her: what it’s like to champion gender-based issues as a new female MP
Political parties
By Amelia Tait
Hear her: what it’s like to champion gender-based issues as a new female MP
Around 40 per cent of MPs elected for the first time in 2019 were female. Amelia Tait spoke to three who have begun to make a name for themselves campaigning on gender equality and women’s rights