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Naana Otoo-Oyortey Defends Strong Stance Against FGM by UK Legal Chief
April 2013. The Director of Public Prosections suggested to an audience in Islington that charges of child abuse should be brought against practitioners of female genital mutilation...
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Italy's First Black Minister - Fighting for Immigrants' Rights
April 2013: For years, Cécile Kyenge, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been fighting for rights of immigrants in Italy as one of the officials of the Democratic Party’s...
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'Laws of Attrition' - Crushing Women's Rights in 21st Century Russia
May 2013: By Maria Stambler - "These laws are signaling a return to the Stone Age for human rights... However, not enough attention is given to the changes this will bring to women’s rights..."
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Britain’s Poverty Addiction
Those being massively impacted by poverty include people providing care to Britain’s elderly and disabled people, with over five million of those being unpaid careers, while many carers in the private...
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Body Bags in London to Protest Belarus Police State
June 2013: By Louise Hogan - "Police appear bemused as they are handed flyers by activists.... This is a peaceful protest aimed at highlighting the continued use of the death penalty in Belarus..."
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UK: Child poverty 'costs Glasgow £395m'
Child poverty costs Scotland's largest council £395m a year, a report has claimed. Researchers said the impact of the problem in the Glasgow City Council area was the third highest in the UK.
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Beyond the Numbers: The Lives of UK Children with Disabilities
Kulsoom Rizvi talked to mothers: “I was absolutely devastated... No one directly told us it was Downs. The pediatrician who reviewed Sebs was really walking around the issue... Why was he scared to...
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Honour killing film wins international award
“Banaz: An Honour Killing”, which chronicles the brutal honour killing of a young British Kurdish woman in suburban London by her own family, has won a current affairs International Emmy.
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Scottish Women's Aid concerned at call to keep domestic abuse cases out of court
A police chief in suggested some domestic abusers should go on counselling or relationship guidance courses rather than being sent to court. Women's rights campaigners are concerned.
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Ireland: Huge funding shortfall for new women’s refuge
Oct 2013: The funding for a state-of-the-art women’s refuge in Kildare has finally been agreed by the HSE. However, it falls short by €120k and as a result will only cover running costs to open two of...
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Two British Children An Hour: Why Is Female Genital Mutilation Not History?
Nov 2013: By Hilary Burrage - "Eradicating FGM in Britain requires a pincer movement of stringently enforced laws (FGM has been illegal since 1985) and proactive intervention...
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Tackling Rape Culture and Sexism
When you are raised in a ‘rape culture’, it is hardly a surprise that some men develop a warped understanding of sex and gender....
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Domestic Abuse: A view from inside
I didn’t understand the behaviour I was experiencing was abuse, the looks and smashing holes in the doors, threatening the children and the ultimate threat of suicide if I left...
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Ashley Price: Speaking Out Against Domestic Abuse
I am a Town Councillor for Lewes, in East Sussex, and I'm the Council's Anti-Domestic Abuse Champion. I think a lot of people, when they find out that I am male, are surprised that I hold this role...
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Prisoners Take Pledge Never to Commit Violence Against Women
Dec 2013: The White Ribbon Campaign organised awareness-raising events at HMP Pentonville, Holloway. Inmates made handprints centred on the theme These Hands Are Not For Hurting...
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Women in the Legal Profession - Interview with UK Barrister, Bonike Erinle
Courtenay Forbes interviews Bonike Erinle: "Barristers are advocates... I attended a 2-hour long seminar on FGM... I have certainly taken it upon myself to look at the ways in which I can be of...
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The Global Economics Of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Feb 2014: By Hilary Burrage - "We now know quite a lot about the cultural and social pressures which drive FGM... But one (largely) missing element in the campaigns to stop FGM is economic analysis..."
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Is Moscow's Transport Unsafe for Women? Muscovite Women Respond...
“I’ve witnessed an unpleasant incident when an elderly grandma tried to get in before the doors closed but only her arms and bag made it yet not one single man tried to help her by opening the slammed...
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Sugar Daddies: a way out of poverty for many Russian women?
There’s a much deeper issue here than the emergence of ‘gold digger academies’, an issue that concerns society and the future of the Russian nation as a whole. And this issue needs to be tackled fast...
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Bosnian Women Caught in the Crosshairs: Genocidal Rape, Sex Trafficking &...
The lethality of the tripartite combination of war, patriarchy, and capitalism is evidently far more destructive a force than each on its own. Patriarchy was explicitly pulled in to the mix of war...
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