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.”
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
Legal frameworks designed to safeguard women are too often weaponised against them, reinforcing male power and entrenching injustice. The FiLiA Ending MVAWG Team highlight some of the issues
