Woman's Place UK

 

27 September 2020

 

Woman's Place UK

19 posts today

RT @UN_Women: Women make up the majority of the people responding to #COVID19, but the voices we hear from the front line are often male. We need more women reporters, storytellers and leaders in the media industry. #UNGA https://t.co/8YT5O7...

September 27th @ 3:38 pm |

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RT @WomensSpaceIre: Robert Purcell, chair of the Law Society Criminal Law Committee told the Law Society Gazette in October that the Gender Recognition Act 2015 has placed the State in an impossible position with regard to transgender prisoners. ...

September 27th @ 3:37 pm |

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Very few women – or men – knew about plans to change the GRA until women started speaking up. These were plans which would have a direct impact on whole of society and yet women were criticised for wanting to make their views known. Our submission is ...

September 27th @ 3:26 pm |

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RT @GitaSahgal: This is terrible policy making. Ask the most vulnerable people to speak out and have a voice where they are prisoners and silenced, before any assessment on risk. 'Risk assessment' is a mug's game in the first place. This policy ...

September 27th @ 2:00 pm |

Woman's Place UK

19 posts today

Very few women – or men – knew about plans to change the GRA until women started speaking up. These were plans which would have a direct impact on whole of society and yet women were criticised for wanting to make their views known. Our submission is ...

September 27th @ 1:24 pm |

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RT @WomensSpaceIre: Many women prisoners are amongst the most vulnerable in Irish society. Yet with a Gender Recognition Certificate any man can self-id as a member of the opposite sex and be sent to a women's prison, even if he's a sex offender ...

September 27th @ 11:49 am |

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Dr Elizabeth MacBean Ross (1878-1915) Scottish. After working on Colonsay, in the East End & Persia, she travelled to India & Japan as a ship’s surgeon. In WW1 she answered an appeal for doctors to go to Serbia where she died of typhus; her life ...

September 27th @ 7:04 am |

Woman's Place UK

19 posts today

Dr Elizabeth MacBean Ross (1878-1915) Scottish. After working on Colonsay, in the East End & Persia, she travelled to India & Japan as a ship’s surgeon. In WW1 she answered an appeal for doctors to go to Serbia where she died of typhus; her ...

September 27th @ 7:04 am |

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RT @fairplaywomen: .@trussliz’s statement on GRA reform talks about striking the right balance. About upholding the rights of trans people and women. Advocates for sex-based rights are now rightly seen as policy stakeholders not stunned as hate ...

September 27th @ 6:29 am |

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RT @OnThisDayShe: In c 1607, aged about 15, Catalina de Erauso escaped from a Spanish convent. She cut off her hair, dressed as a boy, and worked under various names, rising to the rank of lieutenant in the Spanish colonial army in S America. She ...

September 27th @ 6:26 am |