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A RALLY has been called to defend jobs at Solace Women’s Aid in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets from threatened redundancies, the United Voices of the World (UVW) union announced today.
Domestic abuse support workers have been told they will be cut by a third in the borough, which has London’s second-highest rate of domestic abuse, the union said.
UVW also said that bosses “appear to be attempting” union-busting after they reportedly contacted workers who appeared in a photograph published by the union, claiming that social media policy may have been breached and implying that disciplinary action could follow.
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
The government’s new immigration proposal risks creating a society where rights are earned, not guaranteed, warn feminist groups Project Resist and FiLiA in a joint statement
