Law Archives - Woman's Place UK

13th March 2021

Reclaiming feminism – a statement by Izquierda Unida

"Neither invisible nor precarious. Anticapitalist feminists"

Categories: Law, lesbian erasure, Spain, VAWG •
Tags: Izquierda Unida, Reclaiming Feminism, Spain, Statement •
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Reclaiming feminism – a statement by Izquierda Unida (English translation) Izquierda Unida (United Left) is a Spanish coalition bringing together various left wing parties including the Communist Party of Spain.… Read More →

11th December 2020

EHRC misrepresents the law on collecting sex data

Picture of UK Census questionnaire question on sex

Categories: census, Law •
Tags: CEDAW, census, data, EHRC, Equality Human Rights Commission, gender, GRA, Istanbul Convention, law, press release, Scottish Government, sex matters •
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The EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) misrepresents the law on collecting sex data in its statement to the Scottish Government EHRC submission to Scottish Government Sex & Data Working… Read More →

29th November 2020

Keira Bell v Tavistock: Women’s Rights, Healthcare, and the Law

Poster from US 1970s women's campaign against forced sterilization

Categories: Children, Feminism, GIDS, Health, health care, History, Law, medicine, reproductive rights •
Tags: abortion, Conrathe, GIDS, Gillick, Helen Webberley, Keira Bell, NHS, NICE, obstetric violence vaginal mesh, RCOG, symphysiotomy •
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Keira Bell and the history of women’s rights, healthcare and the law In 1976 Loretta Ross sued and won a case against A. H. Robbins, the manufacturer of the contraceptive… Read More →

19th October 2020

The Political Erasure of Sex

Categories: census, data, Discrimination, Feminism, Free speech, History, Law, Policy, sex •
Tags: Alice Sullivan, census, Jane Clare Jones, Lisa Mackenzie, Oxford, Oxford University, Political Erasure of Sex, Selina Todd •
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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 of… Read More →

19th October 2020

Links from #WPUKCensus Chat

Categories: census, data, Discrimination, Law, Policy, sex, Uncategorized •
Tags: #CountWomen, #SexMatters, #WomenCount, #WPUKCensus, Alice Sullivan, Jane Clare Jones, Lisa Mackenzie, Selina Todd •
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These are the links that were posted in the chat during the #WPUKCensus meeting You can watch a recording of the webinar here: Sex in the Census October 2020 Take… Read More →

17th October 2020

Women count, count women: WPUK & the Census

Categories: census, Law, Meetings, Policy, sex •
Tags: Alice Sullivan, Jane Clare Jones, Judith Green, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, Selina Todd •
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The subject of the webinar we are hosting tomorrow, Sunday 18th October, is also that of our first action: accurate recording of sex in the census. Selina Todd will be… Read More →

25th September 2020

Joint Statement on the UK Government’s responsibility to uphold women’s sex-based rights

Categories: Demands, GRA, Law, Policy, sex, WPUK •
Tags: CUP Women's Pledge, EHRC, equality act, Fairplay for Women, FiLiA, Green Party Women's sex-based rights declaration, Institute of Feminist Thought, Labour Women's Declaration, Liberal Democrats Women's sex-based rights declaration, Liz Truss, SNP Women's Pledge, Women Uniting, Women's Equality Party Sex-Based Rights Caucus •
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We welcome this week’s announcement by the Minister for Women and Equalities. We are pleased that she has struck a balance between improving the process for obtaining a Gender Recognition… Read More →

24th July 2020

Woman’s Place UK submission on Hate Crime & Public Order (Scotland) Bill

Categories: data, Discrimination, Free speech, Law, Policy, Politics, Scotland, Speeches, Violence, WPUK •
Tags: crime, hate crime, Hate Crime and Public Order Bill •
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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 meetings… Read More →

20th July 2020

Making policies Equality Act compliant: Audrey Ludwig

Categories: Discrimination, Law, Policy, sex •
Tags: Audrey Ludwig, equality act, protected characteristics, Public Sector Equality Duty, single sex exemptions, statutory exemptions •
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Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. Introduction This blog is loosely based on the talk I gave, with Julian Norman, at the WPUK Women’s Liberation Conference in February 2020.… Read More →

16th July 2020

Debate is not hate: women won’t be silenced

Categories: Discrimination, Free speech, GRA, Law, Politics, WPUK •
Tags: EHRC, Equality and Human Rights Commission, GRA, House of Commons Library, ICCPR •
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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 the… Read More →