Having read a fair few comment threads and discussions across blog sites and social networks over the past few months, I feel a need to clarify some things in respect of the Safe Space for Women statement that I co-authored with Marsha Jane back in March. First off, as the title of this post says: sometimes words really do mean what they say. Or to put it another way: nowhere in the statement do we call for the handful of people that remain in the SWP to be ‘witch-hunted’ out of our trade unions or the wider labour movement. Nowhere do we state that anyone who hasn’t signed the statement must be immediately denounced as a misogynist or a handmaiden of the patriarchy; and…
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Here’s a selection of pics from yesterday’s Million Women Rise march and rally.
Categories: campaigning, domestic violence, feminism, FGM, misogyny, porn, prostitution, rape, sex industry, sexism, stalking, trafficking, violence against women
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…
Categories: campaigning, ConDems, feminism, guest post, health, mental health, prostitution, rape, religion, sex industry, the cuts, trafficking, violence against women
