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• Women (UK)

  Fifty years of feminist organising in Britain – challenges for the future

  8 March 2020, by CONWAY Terry

  Terry Conway is a social feminist and LGBTIQ activist. She is LGBT officer in Islington North Labour Party, Chair of Hackney and Islington Unite Community and officer of Labour Women Leading and a supporter of Socialist Resistance. This is an edited and expanded version of a contribution she (...)

• Women (UK)

  “On The Side Of Those Who Fight For Freedom” - Women, sharia and religious courts in Britain

  16 January 2020, by NAMAZIE Maryam

  I started Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All more than a decade ago to publicly mobilise dissent against religious laws. An expression of “not in my name” and a challenge to the Quran, Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of the emancipation of women, (...)

• Women (UK)

  Britain: Collapse In Number Of Rape Charges Despite Huge Rise In Reports

  12 September 2019, by CWJ

  Women’s groups warn that rape is being decriminalised and move to issue legal proceedings against the Crown Prosecution Service
  The latest figures in the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) annual report on prosecuting crimes of violence against women published 12 September shows CPS decisions to (...)

• Women (UK)

  U.K.: collapse in rate of rape prosecutions

  10 June 2019, by End Violence Against Women

  Rape prosecution rate has collapsed - only 1 in 25 reported cases getting to court. CrowdJustice fundraising appeal opened to fund challenge.
  The End Violence Against Women (EVAW), represented by the Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ), began legal action against the Crown Prosecution Service (...)

• Women (UK)

  UK: Women bear the brunt of high street closures and job losses

  26 April 2019, by JOLLY Jasper

  In 2019 the number of retail jobs held by women fell by 3.4% but for men it was down only 0.2%.
  The wave of store closures and job losses that is hollowing out the British high street has a disproportionate impact on women.
  Higher costs and the shift to online shopping have left many of the (...)

• Women (UK)

  U.K. : Benefit cap: single mothers make up 85% of those affected, data shows

  4 January 2019, by SYAL Rajeev

  DWP records show 134,044 households had support capped, with single mothers accounting for 114,337
  The vast majority of people being penalised by the government’s benefit cap are single mothers, new analysis has found.
  According to Department for Work and Pensions data examined by the Labour (...)

• Women (UK)

  United Kingdom: A push to reform Islamic divorce could make Sharia councils redundant in Britain

  9 December 2016, by ALI Shaheen Sardar

  Controversy over Sharia councils in Britain has resulted in an ongoing parliamentary enquiry on their role and remit. Some of those giving evidence before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee suggest Sharia councils should be abolished altogether, while others are calling for reform or for (...)

• Women (UK)

  Britain: Forty years of women’s liberation

  26 February 2010, by COCHRANE Kira

  In 1970, a handful of students organised a national conference on women’s issues – it proved to be one of the biggest landmarks in women’s history. Kira Cochrane on the event that helped a generation find its voice – and its legacy today
  The hour was 5.30am; the date, sometime in the late 1960s; (...)

• Women (UK)

  Women, finance, independance in Britain: You’ve come a long way, Jenny

  18 April 2004, by HENNESSY Kathleen

  Kathleen Hennessy looks at the finances of three generations of women.
  When Emmeline Pankhurst stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the suffragettes who took up civil disobedience to campaign for the vote, she was probably realistic enough not to expect change overnight. But she would have been (...)