Here’s a selection of pics from yesterday’s Million Women Rise march and rally. About these ads
For those of you who missed it here’s the link to this morning’s Leveson Inquiry hearing where representatives from women’s organisations finally got their say on sexism in the media. The relevant bit starts at around 105:00, and it’s well worth watching: Leveson Inquiry Tuesday am And here’s my Storify of some of the tweeting that went on during it: Women at Leveson In other news, I did the interview about lap dancing clubs on BBC Radio Norfolk’s breakfast show that I mentioned in my previous post – you can listen to the full thing here. And yes I know, I said Camden when I should have said Hackney, but never mind. Anyway, here’s the money quote from that interview: I’m still ridiculously chuffed…
It’s International Human Rights Day today, which means it’s officially the final day of the 16 days of activism against gender violence campaign. But 16 days isn’t enough is it? Not when you consider that violence against women and girls continues to be perpetrated day after day after day, 365 days of the year. Sixteen days of awareness raising and speaking out isn’t enough, not when you consider that at any point, day or night, somewhere in this world, a woman or girl is being subjected to rape, or domestic violence, or FGM, forced marriage, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, or a so-called ‘honour-crime’. Sixteen days of blogging, tweeting, marching, chanting, shouting about this isn’t enough when at any moment you care to pick a…
Anyone who’s been following the discussion that developed in the thread under Polly’s recent post – It doesn’t make it all right – might be interested to know that the Department for Education has published its action plan on tackling child sexual exploitation today: Tackling child sexual exploitation action plan And here’s a link to the Guardian’s write up of it – Child sex exploitation to be tackled by government - which I link to here because it includes these absolutely key observations from Anne-Marie Carrie, chief exec of Barnardo’s
This is a guest post by Heather Harvey. Heather is research and development manager for Eaves. A friend and I were discussing the impact of the cuts on the voluntary sector, in particular the Poppy Project. My friend said nobody was exempt from the cuts and having failed to win the tender, Poppy can’t complain. Moreover why should government only and continuously fund one organisation? He also felt that the decision to award the tender to the Salvation Army was fair. He drew a parallel with the many organisations of other faiths who have received funding to help their own communities. In this he echoes DCLG Minister Eric Pickles, who said he wished to remove obstacles to religious organisations delivering public services – in…
