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International Women’s Day 2024 #BeMoreMary
I’ve been brought up to believe that if something’s wrong you should do something about it.Make your voice heard, your views known.Mary Gordon As a tribute to our dear...
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Be More Mary
International Women’s Day is on Friday 8th March 2024 and the official IWD website is urging us to “inspire inclusion”, as, apparently, “IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere”. To echo...
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Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody
After the public outcry over Isla Bryson/Adam Graham an interim prison policy was put in place banning all male prisoners from the female estate if they have a history of...
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Appeal to the UK Supreme Court
We are pleased that the Court of Session Inner House has granted our application to appeal their judicial review decision to the UK Supreme Court. Our CrowdJustice fundraiser to...
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
The following briefing was submitted to the call for inputs from the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls ahead of her visit to Scotland in February. It...
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UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women: the meaning of sex and self-identification
The following report was submitted to the CEDAW Committee who are considering the implications of self-identification of sex and gender identity as a legal right. It looks at where...
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Suffragette scarf giveaway
We have two Suffragette scarves from the Ministry of Tartan (worth £36.99) to give away to two people selected at random, who make a donation (of any amount) in support of our work before 11:59pm on...
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Gender Representation on Public Boards (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
This is our short submission to the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee’s call for views on the amendment to the GRPB Act to bring it...
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SPS policy on the management of transgender prisoners
This is our submission to the Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee who will be looking at the SPS policy when it meets on 11th January. It’s also available to...
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Letter to Presiding Officer re badges
A woman visiting Parliament today to watch the Citizen Participation and Petitions Committee meeting was asked to remove her badge by security. The ‘offending’ badge was one that we...