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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 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...
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