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23 posts today'The Highland Council regrettably informs that the Refuge provision within Inverness (run by Women’s Aid) is no longer being provided.' https://t.co/T2ptz8...
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23 posts todayLabour welcomes government review of Equality Act over defining sex as biological
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23 posts today'Such a move would make it easier to mandate single-sex access to certain spaces without risking legal challenges over exclusion of trans women.' https://t.co/Ah12cO...
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23 posts today‘A snarling rottweiler of toxic government policy’
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23 posts todayMatriarchal Manifesta — FiLiA
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23 posts todayPrevious FiLiA speaker Dr Heide Goettner-Abendroth 'In this way, true “grass-roots democracy” is created; decisions are made by all persons at local and regional levels (delegates are only information-bearers... https://t.co/Uegets...
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23 posts todayCampaigners condemn 'complete lack of progress’ on buffer zones
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23 posts today'Lucy Grieve, of buffer zones campaign group Back Off Scotland, said Scotland is now lagging behind the rest of the UK in protecting women who are accessing healthcare.' https://t.co/Uop3kU...
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23 posts todayUK’s Response to 4th Universal Periodic Review
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23 posts todayRecommendation 276 ''Lift the reservation to article 59 of the Istanbul Convention, so that migrant women can receive the same support and protection' Nod to @NatSecSoc for the link https://t.co/nvjEfg...
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23 posts todayOpinion | Where are women in academia?
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23 posts today'Despite big claims of equality, diversity and inclusion, universities continue to be controlled by men, https://t.co/44tDJ2...
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23 posts todayWe need to talk about 3.56pm
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23 posts today'But 3.56pm isn’t any ordinary time. It’s the time at which Australian women, mathematically, start working for their employers for free each day while the wage counter keeps ticking over for their male counterparts.' https://t.co/udRMhO...
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23 posts todayGender Bias In The Courts: Women Are Not Believed
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23 posts today'Thirty years ago, legal scholars and social scientists noted the legal system’s skepticism of women in general and victims of gender-based violence in particular. Deborah Tuerkheimer coined the term “credibility discount”' https://t.co/PkysUN...
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23 posts todayKosovo to Probe Prosecutor for Neglecting Case of Murdered Woman
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23 posts todayFamilies of murdered women defend anti-femicide group in Turkey court
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23 posts today"They taught me I am a woman and I have rights, they supported me in 16 hearings for the arrest of my daughter's murderer," she said. "They walked together with me and I will walk together with them forever". https://t.co/AMLzUA...
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23 posts todayCathedral protestors had 'exhausted all other ways of raising concerns'
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23 posts today“We were driven to protest during the First Minister’s speech because we’ve exhausted all other ways of raising our concerns with his government,” Mary Douglas who was one of the protest’s organisers https://t.co/fSrSOZ...
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23 posts todayScots women in agriculture face sexism and stereotyping, report finds
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23 posts today'Female workers described feeling like the “token woman” in the industry, that there was an “assumption” all farmers are men, and there was an expectation they would “go off on maternity leave” amongst male colleagues,' https://t.co/gA2TRW...