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Stonewall: Nurses and Midwives speak out
Hundreds of nurses and midwives have signed a letter calling for the Nursing and Midwifery Council and NHS trusts to withdraw from Stonewall's Diversity Champions Programme and Equality Index. These...
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Stonewall: Letter to Nursing and Midwifery Council
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the regulatory body for nurses, midwives and health visitors. This letter, drafted by concerned nurses and other healthcare professionals, calls for: a) the...
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March with Midwives – Inclusion and Exclusion
Anna is a midwife and part of the With Woman collective. She writes about the challenges facing midwifery in the UK; the grassroots movement March with Midwives; and their...
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Joan Smith: Ending VAWG must be a national priority
Ending VAWG is an urgent national priority Four years ago, this country suffered the highest number of terrorist fatalities since the 7/7 attacks in 2005. Thirty-six people died in...
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Woman’s Place UK in Cambridge 2017
A Woman's Place is on the platform was our first ever public meeting. We have now organised a total of 28 public meetings, 10 webinars and a conference...
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SWP: WPUK response to statement
A Woman’s Place is NOT in Prison Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) organised a large meeting in central London on October 27th on the issue of women in prison. It...
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A record of Woman’s Place UK meetings
This is a record of the meetings organised by Woman’s Place UK since our inception in September 2017, together with some details of the difficulties we have faced from...
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Who lost the sex wars? Woman’s Place UK Rebuttal
On 13th September, The New Yorker published an article by Amia Srinivasan 'Who lost the sex wars?' which contained inaccuracies about Woman's Place UK. On 14th September, Woman's Place UK...
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Spanish feminists take on Podemos: “There are feminists in Podemos too”
Just as women in Izquierda Unida, a Spanish left wing political coalition, have published a statement against proposed gender self-ID legislation; women in Podemos, a Spanish left wing party...
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Reclaiming feminism – a statement by Izquierda Unida
Izquierda Unida (United Left) is a Spanish coalition bringing together various left wing parties including the Communist Party of Spain. The following open letter was published in March 2021.
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Condemn the violent threat made against Carmen Calvo – an open letter
WPUK has joined with 13 other organisations to call on all the major political party leaders in the UK to condemn the violent threat made against the Spanish Deputy...
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What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls
What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls: One woman’s take by Callie Burt Biden’s Executive Order 13988: neither surprising nor good for women and girls On...
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Lidia Falcón: “Women are being erased from the law and public policy”
The following is a translation of an exclusive interview for Dominican newspaper El Caribe with Spanish lawyer and feminist politician Lidia Falcón. She was interviewed by Raquel Rosario Sánchez....
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Democratic norms trump single issues: a reflection on the US election
Many women in the UK will have been watching the election coverage of the US in the past few days, the outcome of which has ramifications not only for...
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How to submit evidence to the Women & Equalities Committee Inquiry on GRA reform
Since publishing this guidance we have received a response to our email about the date the Inquiry was launched. We have been assured that the Inquiry commenced on 28th...
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Joint Statement on the UK Government’s responsibility to uphold women’s sex-based rights
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...
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Sex matters: WPUK response to GRA announcement
Three years ago today, we formed Woman’s Place UK with the specific aim of supporting women to respond to the consultation on the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) and to...
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There was no debate: TUC 2020
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) met this week to hold its annual conference. Like most meetings at the moment it was held online. Motions were moved and seconded –...
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Against the erasure of women: interview with Spanish feminist and politician Angeles Álvarez
We are delighted to feature an interview with Spanish feminist and socialist politician Angeles Alvarez. Born in Zamora in 1961, she was a PSOE (the Partido Socialista Obrero Español,...
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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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