POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Jul 27, 2017

Join national discussion on citizenship

Are there barriers preventing people from being more involved, both locally and nationally? The House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement has been appointed to consider the issues of citizenship and civic engagement in the twenty-first century – and is calling for evidence from those interested in these issues. The committee is keen to hear from a wide range of individuals, groups and organisations in order to understand the nature of the citizenship challenge...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Apr 14, 2017

Help fight the rape clause

Five things you can do to help get the UK government to scrap the ‘family cap’ and ‘rape clause’. Engender has released a special edition of #FridayFeministFive focusing on their campaign calling on the UK Government to scrap the abhorrent ‘family cap’ and the ‘rape clause’. Here are 5 simple things you can do to help. 1) Sign the petition. Engender, Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland have submitted a petition to the UK Parliament petitions...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Feb 27, 2017

Redefining an isolated incident

In the UK killings of women and girls by men are not ‘isolated incidents’. Despite femicide being identified globally as a leading cause of premature death for women, little research has been made into this issue in the UK. Women’s Aid are working to change that. A ground breaking report called Redefining an Isolated Incident examines femicide – the murder of women because they are women – using data from the Femicide Census. Its key findings were that between 1...