On family courts – Insert new clauses into Part 3: Family Proceedings following Clause 75 on cross examination: Remove Section 11 (2A) of the Children and Families Act 2014 which presumes that it is always in a child’s best interest to have contact with both parents. RATIONALE: This has resulted in a presumption of contact …
Amnesty from Deportation, Access to Health, Housing and Food SIGN THE PETITION HERE An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of the UK and the Taoiseach of Ireland cc: UK Home Secretary and UK Health Secretary, Irish Health Secretary and Irish Minister for Justice and Equality, All UK MPs, All Members of the Irish Parliament …
Application on behalf of women’s group follows concern over fall in number of charges Owen Bowcott and Caelainn Barr The Guardian Tue 17 Mar 2020 A legal challenge over alleged changes to Crown Prosecution Service policy on bringing charges in rape cases has been dismissed by the high court. The judges, Dame Victoria Sharp, president of the Queen’s Bench …
NEWS FLASH: Victory after living for 17 years in limbo! Ms O from Cote D’Ivoire – announces today 3 March 2020 that she has finally won refugee status. Speaking at today’s self-help session (which BWRAP helps coordinate) Ms O described how the immigration judge at her appeal hearing intervened to stop the Home Office barrister …
Join us in the afternoon at the Crossroads Women’s Centre – let’s talk about campaigns for justice, compensation, asylum . . . IWD 8M: OPEN DAY with the Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and other organisations at the Crossroads Women’s Centre All welcome Programme 12-6pm 12-12.30 Welcome and exhibition Honouring Women 12.30-12.50 Film: Poverty is not …
Eminent jurists write to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for Julian Assange’s immediate release. A delegation of women handed in the Jurists letter to 10 Downing St., including from Legal Action for Women and Women Against Rape who signed the letter. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 February 2020 With Julian Assange’s extradition hearing set to …
Jurists letter to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP 10, Downing Street City of Westminster London, SW1A 2AA Dear Mr Johnson, As international jurists, with an acute awareness of the responsibilities that our profession demands of us, we call on the British authorities to refuse the request for the extradition of Mr. …
Keir Starmer’s record on rape Camden New Journal Letters 6 February 2020 The record on rape We take issue with the letter from MARTIN PLAUT of NW5 (‘Errors in attacks on Starmer’, January 30). He claims that rape “is one of the issues [Sir Keir] feels most strongly about and has worked on most assiduously. His determination has been …
Campaign Against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace IN JANUARY 2019 the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union launched a public campaign against sexual harassment with support from Women Against Rape (WAR). We had our first regional meeting with union reps at Region 5 in January and are invited to speak in other BFAWU regions. The …
Free The Truth – 2 Monday 3 February 2020 5-7:30pm Free The Truth Event in London https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-the-truth-london-feb-3-freethetruth-tickets-88746570381 in support of Julian Assange. The meeting will discuss the legal campaigning vs extradition and other grasroots legal campaigns. With WAR, Nils Melzer – UN Rapportuer on Torture, and others. Organised by Deepa Driver.
