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Women's rights under threat as new measures announced in Queen's Speech
Tories set to introduce 38 new bills, which campaigners say will risk undermining the fight to end violence against women.
People take part in a Million Women Rise march outside Charing Cross Police Station in central London, ahead of International Women's Day. Saturday March 5, 2022.
THE government’s array of new legislative Bills presents a grave threat to women’s rights, campaigners have warned.
The Queen’s Speech confirmed a series of new laws the government hopes to pass over the next year, which it claimed will “grow and strengthen the economy and help ease the cost of living for families.”
But its legislative agenda has been widely condemned, with the End Violence Against Women coalition warning today that out of the 38 Bills announced, the “vast majority risk undermining our fight to end violence against women.”
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