POSTED BY Alice Powell IN Campaigns, Featured ON May 7, 2013 | 0 comments

No more women on English currency?

The Bank of England announced it will replace the only woman on English currency with Churchill. The Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King announced on 26 April that the current five pound note will be phased out in 2016. Social reformer Elizabeth Fry is to be replaced as the face of the five-pound note by Winston Churchill. This means that– barring the Queen – there will be no women depicted on English currency. The Bank of England has featured historical figures on its notes since...

POSTED BY Donna Navarro IN Campaigns, Featured ON May 2, 2013 | 2 comments

Looking at the Merseyside model

Violence against sex workers is a crime not an occupational hazard. Should crimes against sex workers be classified as hate crimes? In 2006, police in Merseyside said sex workers were a vulnerable group of people they wanted to protect and they declared crimes against sex workers to be hate crimes. This is ‘the Merseyside model’. In 2010, the results of the introduction of the Merseyside model brought about astounding results – the overall conviction rate in Merseyside for...

POSTED BY Suzannah von Strandmann IN Featured, Society ON Mar 8, 2013 | 0 comments

The case for naming rape defendants

Other victims find the courage to speak out when they know that their rape was not an isolated incident. Head of the Bar Council, Maura McGowan QC, has said that alleged rapists should be given anonymity until they are convicted. Raising the debate again. Speaking on BBC Radio 5 recently, McGowan said that: “Until [defendants] have been proven to have done something as awful as this – I think there is a strong argument in cases of this sort, because they carry such a stigma with...