POSTED BY IN Campaigns, Culture, Featured ON May 22, 2013 | 1 comment
Disneyfied Princess Merida is outrageous
Glam makeover of ‘Brave’ princess highlights Disney’s all-pervading reach into childhood. The ‘princess phase’ is one which has rendered many of my friends with little girls utterly helpless against a tirade of pink nylon frills and sparkly accessories. No matter how progressive, liberal or open-minded they had been in raising their daughters, they have all had to face the day their feisty little girls decided that all they wanted to be was a pink princess. From...
POSTED BY IN Campaigns, Featured, Society ON May 22, 2013 | 0 comments
End gender based hate speech on Facebook
Join the campaign against Facebook’s questionable application of its terms and conditions. As regular WVoN readers will know, in 2011 we fought a hard campaign against rape jokes on Facebook. The campaign went international and the outcome was a particular page being taken down after we contacted advertisers to warn them about what kind of pages their ads were appearing against. However we did not win the war – Facebook simply informed users that if they marked content as humorous,...
POSTED BY IN Campaigns, Featured ON May 21, 2013 | 1 comment
Call for public inquiry after errors
Maria Stubbings was murdered by her former partner despite repeated calls for help to Essex police. Refuge, the national domestic violence charity, and Maria Stubbings’s family are calling for the government to open a public inquiry into the response of the police and other state agencies to victims of domestic violence. Maria Stubbings was murdered in 2008, by her former partner, Marc Chivers, despite making repeated calls for help to Essex Police. An investigation by the Independent Police...
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