For Women Scotland

Hate Crime Bill • Page 2

  • Sex and the Hate Crime Bill

    Taken from our Twitter thread. We continue to be bemused by the determination of some in the Scottish Government and funded organisation to dismiss and undermine important work on...

  • FWS Statement on Justice Committee meeting today

    We were disturbed, but sadly unsurprised, that, once again, the Committee passed-up the chance to add sex to the Hate Crime Bill while failing to progress on free speech...

  • History of Women and Hate Crime Law

    A gender aggravator to a crime was first mooted in the Draft Criminal Code for Scotland some seventeen years ago. Later the same year Robin Harper MSP lodged an...

  • Women and the Hate Crime Bill: Nothing about us without us

    On Tuesday 24th November For Women Scotland will give evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee on the controversial Hate Crime and Public Order Bill. In our written submission,...

  • Letter to Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

    The Delegated Powers Memorandum for the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill contains a clause that states: “Regulations under this section may modify section 14 (meaning of the...