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25 January 2012
Victory against Dorries' abstinence education bill
On Friday 20 January a demonstration against Tory MP Nadine Dorries' Sex Education (required content) Bill 185 was interrupted mid way through when a victory was announced, writes Beth Granter.
18 January 2012
Protect women's rights - oppose the abstinence bill
In May 2011, Tory MP Nadine Dorries made an attack on sex education via a private member's bill. Dorries proposed that girls be given "information and advice" on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity...
9 June 2010
Bradford murders and prostitution
Comment: THE MURDER of three women in Bradford once again draws attention to the plight of women who take up prostitution, writes Jane James.
30 August 2009
Fighting for LGBT rights in the USA
FRUSTRATED BY the inaction of the Obama administration and unwilling to continue to accept their second-class status, gay rights activists have called a national march for equality in Washington, DC, on 11 October...
29 July 2009
Success for Stop the Strip campaign
THE WHITE Hart in New Cross, south London, which had previously been operating as a lap dancing bar, has now returned to being run as a normal bar, writes Tania Eadie.
4 March 2008
Fight for a woman's right to choose
International women's day: Hypocrisy is not the word for it! The Guardian reported that Tory leader David Cameron pledged to give a third of jobs in his first government to women...
25 October 2007
Do women still have the 'right to choose'?
Forty years after the 1967 Abortion Act: This month marks the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act. The reform was won by women who, increasingly confident as they became active in the workplace,...
11 January 2007
Ipswich murders lift lid on violence against women
THE brutal murders of five young women in Ipswich shocked and touched people all over the country...
8 June 2006
Pregnancy discrimination: Bosses show their dirty tricks
THIRTY YEARS ago, the 1975 Sex Discrimination gave legal protection to pregnant women. Under current legislation it's automatically unfair to dismiss someone or for them to suffer any other detriment because they're pregnant, A Citizen's Advice Bureau worker writes from north London.
24 November 2005
On the threshold of genderquake?
30 years of the Equal Pay Act: THIRTY YEARS after the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts, ELAINE BRUNSKILL looks at what impact they have had on working-class women's lives...
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