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• Women (UK)

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

  8 March, 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, 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)

  Northern Irish doctors’ group to fight abortion pill prosecutions

  11 August 2019, by McDONALD Henry

  Pro-choice organisation opposes medics being forced to report women to the police
  A new pro-choice doctors’ organisation has been established in Northern Ireland to defend physician-patient confidentiality over the use of banned abortion pills.
  Doctors for Choice Northern Ireland said they (...)

• 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 (...)