Free speech • Page 2
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Time for a left wing defence of academic freedom
Gavin Williamson’s free speech proposals: a win for women? When Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced his government’s proposals to protect free speech in universities in England there was a...
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Woman’s Place UK submission on freedom of expression Amendments (Hate Crime and Public Order Bill)
This is the submission WPUK made on 21st February to the Scottish Government’s Justice Committee. We welcome the opportunity to provide further evidence to the Justice Committee on the...
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We stand with Kiri: Labour and women’s voices
Labour Women’s Declaration stands in solidarity with Kiri Tunks Thank you Labour Women’s Declaration for your solidarity with our co-founder, Kiri Tunks, who was ‘un-invited’ from speaking on challenging...
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Edinburgh Labour Students
This statement was updated on 27th October to note the withdrawal of the offending statement by Edinburgh Labour Students. Please see update at the end.
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Joint Statement on comments made by BBC Woman’s Hour 20th October 2020
Today, 20th Oct, BBC Woman’s Hour hosted an excellent discussion on the politicization of Mumsnet with feminist scholar Sarah Pedersen (at approx 25mins). The discussion looked at the growth...
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The Political Erasure of Sex
We are delighted to be supporting this important new work by Jane Clare Jones. We reproduce here the blurb from the Political Erasure of Sex website: “The Political Erasure...
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Labour needs to speak up for women
The treatment of Rosie Duffield MP is deplorable. We applaud her courage in speaking out. The Labour Party says it wants more light and less heat but its actions...
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Solidarity with Selina Todd and Senia Paseta
We are delighted to hear of the establishment of the Women’s Equality and Inequality Research Programme and that Professors Selina Todd and Senia Paseta will be leading this important...
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Woman’s Place UK submission on Hate Crime & Public Order (Scotland) Bill
This is the WPUK submission to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill Call for Views. We also submitted a PDF version of the record of all our...
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Debate is not hate: women won’t be silenced
It is good to see the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the House of Commons Library acknowledge the aggression of the public discussion around proposals to amend...
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Girlguiding: campfires, crafts and compelled belief: Helen Watts
Helen Watts was involved in Girlguiding as a child and adult. Since 2018, she has been campaigned for Girlguiding to review their trans policy, which breaches girls’ right to...
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Women are under-represented in film – why the BFI needs to be held to account: Deirdre O’Neill
Filmmaker Deirdre O’Neill, who co-ordinates the Inside Film project, argues that the British Film Institute needs to do much more to tackle the barriers to women’s participation The relationship...
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WPUK rebuttal of Tribune article by Torr Robinson
On 25th February, we wrote to the Editor of Tribune Magazine to challenge accusations made about Woman’s Place UK in an article written by Torr Robinson. The accusations that...
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Labour Campaign for Trans Rights letter to Catherine West MP: WPUK response
On 24th June 2020, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) drafted a letter addressed to Catherine West, Labour MP for Haringey and Wood Green calling on her not...
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Our rights are not yours to give away – Labour must listen to women: Dani Ahrens
Dani Ahrens is a founding member of Brighton Pride and a lifelong left wing activist. On 24th June she tweeted a thread of paragraph by paragraph commentary on an article...
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Allison Bailey: “I am suing Stonewall to stop them policing free speech”
UPDATE: ALLISON BAILEY AWARDED £22,000 IN DISCRIMINATION CASE With permission, we are posting the text from Allison Bailey’s Crowdjustice funding page because the page has been taken down. In...
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WPUK Response to the Communications and Digital Committee Enquiry: The Future of Journalism
This is the text of our submission to the UK parliament’s Communications and Digital Committee Enquiry on the future of journalism. About Woman’s Place UK Woman’s Place UK (WPUK)...
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Too good for Labour: Karen Ingala Smith
We, the co-founders of Woman’s Place UK, are outraged that Karen Ingala Smith, highly respected campaigner and activist for the rights of vulnerable women and children facing male violence,...
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Thank you Labour Women’s Declaration
On Monday night, we spoke at the #ExpelMe rally organised by Labour Women’s Declaration in support of Woman’s Place UK and LGB Alliance. You can read the speech by...
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You ignore us at your peril: Kiri Tunks
This is the text version of the speech Kiri Tunks gave on behalf of Woman’s Place UK at the Labour Women’s Declaration #ExpelMe rally on Monday 9th March 2020....
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