Nearly half (47%) of mothers who’ve recently given birth get less than three minutes or no time at all to discuss their mental and physical health at a postnatal check, according to new research by NCT (National Childbirth Trust) and Netmums. The recommended six-week postnatal check-up with a health professional is meant to uncover mums’ and […]

The Tampon Tax Fund allocates the funds generated from the VAT imposed on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. Local not-for-profit organisations across the country can apply now for a grant to run local projects and services directly benefiting women and girls facing issues such as period poverty, […]

Until 8:00pm @ Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building , LSE Speaker Professor Laura J Shepherd Professor of International Relations, University of Sydney Chair Dr Paul Kirby Assistant Professorial Research Fellow with the Centre for Women, Peace and Security As we approach the 20th anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on […]

AAFDA (Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse), with the support of the Victims’ Commissioner Vera Baird QC, has set up a petition to request that the Unduly Lenient Sentences scheme covers coercive control. The Unduly Lenient Sentences scheme allows anyone to complain to the Attorney General that a sentence is too low. But it does not […]

This report shows that, although migrant pregnant women are detained with a view to their removal, only 5% of those held in one particular detention centre in the UK in 2011 were successfully removed. It also finds that the healthcare these women received in detention was inadequate and that asylum seeking women have poorer health […]

The Scottish criminal justice process leaves those who have reported a rape or serious sexual assault feeling marginalised and with little control regardless of their case’s outcome, a new study has found. Researchers from the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow interviewed victim-survivors who have navigated their way through […]

More needs to be done to support victims and survivors of domestic abuse who are homeowners or private renters, according to a new report from the University of Bristol. Researchers in the Centre for Gender and Violence Research carried out in-depth interviews with 251 people and found two-thirds were either living in private rented property […]

Until 16:30 @ Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London SW1H 9NH Tickets £15 – £35 (*) CEASE UK 2019 is about exposing links between all forms of sexual exploitation and the vast global sex industry. We believe that will never see an end to sexual abuse and exploitation until we challenge the industries that profit […]

Fawcett Society has teamed up with employment law charity YESS Law to launch a new Equal Pay Advice Service, funded by an Equal Pay Fund which has been started thanks to the generous donation of backdated pay from former BBC China Editor Carrie Gracie.

Fawcett Society has teamed up with employment law charity YESS Law to launch a new Equal Pay Advice Service, funded by an Equal Pay Fund which has been started thanks to the generous donation of backdated pay from former BBC China Editor Carrie Gracie.