A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
Advances for Scottish women undermined by economic policy
Although there has been some limited progress, how can we talk about flashy ideas like ‘feminist city planning’ when overall poverty and austerity have savagely attacked the position of the majority of women, asks HAILEY MAXWELL
Scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
THERE are few better times in the year than the eve of International Women’s Day to consider, in brief, the situation of women in Scotland. This year will be the last March where Nicola Sturgeon will be in office, though the possibility that she will be followed by another woman seems quite likely.
Under our first female First Minister, a number of promises for change have been made and some important reforms have been enacted, particularly around public-sector understanding and responses to gender-based violence.
The Scottish government’s Equally Safe strategy around the eradication of gender-based violence has begun the work of taking a systemic approach to undoing several centuries of ingrained misogyny through interventions in education, local authority practice and in healthcare.
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