The “independent review” of the Holbeck Managed Approach (“MA”) to prostitution in Leeds has now been published, and what an unambitious, self-congratulatory exercise in carpet-brushing it is.
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This follows from our last blog. Sisters, if you have experienced online abuse in the last six months - whether that is harassment, dick pics, persistent annoying tweets or any other type of abuse - please join us in reporting it to the police using this letter, amended as necessary. You may need to physically take it to your local police station in order to report a crime.
We explained in our last blog how s.127 Communications Act applies. Now we look at charging standards: double standards?
HMCPSI has just published its 2019 “Rape Inspection” report. This is a document which looks at how well the system is currently working. In its own words
If 58,657 allegations of rape were made in the year ending March 2019 but only 1,925 successful prosecutions for the offence followed, something must be wrong. The National Criminal Justice Board has commissioned work to determine where exactly the justice system is failing victims.
It’s no secret that we’re facing a huge housing crisis in the UK at the moment. Several organisations are campaigning hard for a change in lending rules, for the government to invest in more social and affordable housing, and for the private-rented market to be more closely regulated. What is often missing from these conversations is the gendered aspect of our housing crisis. At the Women’s Budget Group, we decided to change that.
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne hosted an event at the House of Lords asking the University of Reading and FiLiA to invite experts to discuss Gender-Based Violence and the UK’s Obligations under the UN Convention Against Torture with view to compiling a shadow report to present to the periodic review of states party to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in April next year.
Marks and Spencer, the iconic British department store which was once an advocate of the big ‘granny’ pant, has shown insensitivity and fallen victim to modern day sexualisation of women.
Its Christmas ‘Must Haves’ window display in its Nottingham store features men dressed in suits and ‘dressed to impress’, whilst the female mannequins are near-naked in sexy lingerie.
Watching the reaction to Marks & Spencers’ #fancylittleknickers adverts has been illuminating. Women in Nottingham complained that the juxtaposition of “MUST HAVE outfits to impress” with fully clothed male mannequins and “MUST HAVE fancy little knickers” on female mannequins was reflective of a wider problem with objectification of women, including in advertising, and was in poor taste given the recent Irish case in which a seventeen year old girl’s fancy little knickers were held up in front of a jury as evidence that she might have been out on the razzle, and therefore presumably up for it with any older man in the mud on a lane.
Jill Filipovic writing for the Guardian has documented the changes proposed by Betsy DeVos to make it nearly impossible for women on American university campuses to challenge the culture of sexual violence which is now endemic.
We are really proud of our provision for children at FiLiA, enabling parents to attend the conference with their children rather than having to make alternative arrangements which can be expensive or unsuitable. Every year we have provided a creche for babies to pre schoolers and workshops for primary age children - although children are also welcome at the sessions at their parent's discretion. We do not charge an entry fee for children.
