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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...
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Letter to Glasgow Women’s Library
The following joint letter was sent to Glasgow Women’s Library following their shocking decision to feature a display of transactivist placards that were used during abusive protests against women’s...
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Equal Treatment Bench Book
The Equal Treatment Bench Book (ETBB) provides advice and guidance for judges who are duty bound to ensure that all who come before the courts are dealt with in...
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Statutory guidance for RSHP in schools
This is our submission to the Scottish Government consultation on statutory guidance for Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) in schools. The draft guidance can be read here and...
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Court decision – reclaiming motion on the Statutory Guidance for the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act
The Inner House Court of Session decision is now available in full on the court’s website here. Naturally, we are hugely disappointed in today’s judgment, which has ruled that women’s...
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NHS CHI Number
We sent the following letter to Dr Gregor Smith, the Chief Medical Officer on 2nd October. As you are aware today marks the start of Speak Up Week 2023...
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A Human Rights Bill for Scotland
This is our submission to the Scottish Government consultation on a human rights bill which proposes to incorporate four UN treaties, including CEDAW, into Scots law. The consultation document...
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Reclaiming Motion on the Statutory Guidance for the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act – Grounds of Appeal and Note of Argument
Ahead of our reclaiming motion (appeal) in the Court of Session Inner House on Wednesday 4th October we are now able to publish our written submissions to the court....
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UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women: a case study in the Scottish courts
The following report examines how the Scottish Government performed in its commitment to the incorporation of the United Nations CEDAW treaty by examining our first judicial review where we...
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Male on an all-women shortlist
We have sent the following letter to the Chair of the SNP’s National Executive Committee and Humza Yousaf, the leader of the SNP. It has been brought to our...