Blog posts from March 2010
The “Bad Mother” Gene.
By Josephine Tsui | 31 March 2010, 23:15
Congrats! You’re gay! It’s because you have a genetic disposition to being gay. But if you ever not want to be gay, you can just change your environment to decrease your disposition of being gay.
Council of Europe adopts recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity
By Helen G | 31 March 2010, 20:25
Via the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers (link here): Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on…
Mini feminist victory for Pink Stinks!
By Laura Woodhouse | 31 March 2010, 16:15
Well done to the Pink Stinks! campaigners for persuading Sainsbury’s to stop the gendered labelling of their kids dressing up clothes. Doctors’ outfits are currently labelled specifically for boys, while nurses’ uniforms are for girls. Pilots, superheros and soldier kits…
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How you can support Gail Sherwood
By Laura Woodhouse | 30 March 2010, 13:16
Women Against Rape have put together a number of actions you can take to support Gail Sherwood, the woman who was sentenced to two years in prison earlier this month for “falsely” claiming she had been raped and harassed by…
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Fertile Feminism
By Guest Blogger | 30 March 2010, 08:45
Amity Reed, founder of new website Fertile Feminism, explains why mothers should be central to feminism. Laura has written a reciprocal post at Fertile Feminism, which you can read here. I found feminism when it came shooting out of my…
Checked your human privilege lately?
By Amy Clare | 29 March 2010, 11:00
My name is Amy Clare, and I am a vegan feminist. (Or should that be veg*n fem*nist?) For my last post as one of this month’s guest bloggers, I’d like to talk about speciesism and human privilege. For those unfamiliar…
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Calling het couples who want a civil partnership!
By Laura Woodhouse | 29 March 2010, 10:31
Katherine Doyle and Tom Freeman, the couple who are aiming to make civil partnerships available to heterosexual couples, are looking for co-appellants to bring their case before the European Court of Human Rights: We have got some gay couples on…
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Angry women in rock?
By Jess McCabe | 29 March 2010, 05:57
I’m not totally convinced by the premise of this Guardian feature - that women in rock are less angry (implicitly about sexism) than they once were. Nonetheless, Jude Rogers has interviewed some really interesting people, including Joan Jett, Kristin Hersh…
Some Friday afternoon reading
By Laura Woodhouse | 26 March 2010, 16:39
Laurie Penny’s produced one of the most reasonable, balanced pieces on feminism and sex work / prostitution I’ve read over at The Samosa. I thoroughly recommend reading it. I’m not going to be online very much over the weekend to…
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The Oscar Curse
By Guest Blogger | 26 March 2010, 10:03
Mathilde Madden is an author and journalist who writes about sex, sexuality, feminism and popular culture. She was also co-editor of Erotica Cover Watch (NSFW). Women, know your limits! Fancy winning an Oscar? Sure, it might have been your dream…
David Cameron on gay rights - oops!
By zohra moosa | 25 March 2010, 17:30
Update: Here is the link to a transcript for the first video interview with David Cameron by the Gay Times. And here is the link to a transcript for the second video which is the Channel 4 piece on the…
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A ‘conscience clause’ to legitimise discrimination
By Helen G | 25 March 2010, 15:55
Further to Laura’s earlier post about how the General Pharmaceutical Council’s so-called ‘conscience clause’ will allow dispensing pharmacists to “refuse to prescribe items that might clash with their personal religious beliefs”, I’d like to add my own concerns about the…
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Labour would give pregnant women legal right to home births, dads right to stay overnight in hospital after birth
By Laura Woodhouse | 25 March 2010, 10:59
I’m a bit late to this one, but the government has announced plans to give women the legal right to choose where they give birth, and wants to overhaul maternity wards so that fathers can stay overnight rather than leaving…
Pharmacists can continue to refuse to provide medication based on their beliefs
By Laura Woodhouse | 25 March 2010, 10:31
Amy Clare mentioned the recent case of a Sheffield woman who was refused the contraceptive pill by a religious pharmacist and told to come back the next day when a different pharmacist would be working. Sadly, the new industry regulator,…
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Freedom of religion is not freedom to discriminate
By Amy Clare | 24 March 2010, 11:52
A gay couple were turned away from a B&B in Berkshire by its Christian owner, who claimed it would be ‘against her convictions’ to allow them to stay, the Guardian reported on Sunday. The couple, Michael Black and John Morgan…
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Tampon Talks. Mama Says Good Girls Marry Doctors
By Josephine Tsui | 24 March 2010, 10:51
MAMA SAYS GOOD GIRLS MARRY DOCTORS Retaining Control, Negotiating Roles: Diasporic Women and their Parents Part 3 of 4. Tampon Talks By Shalini Gogia It was 5:30 am. I was jet lagged and roaming in the dark. Should I use…
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February comments on features and reviews - up now!
By Jess McCabe | 24 March 2010, 00:08
Comments on features and reviews from February are up now and ready to read. Huge thanks as usual to Helen G for her assistance coding the features and review comment. Lots of discussion this month of Helen’s piece on feminism…
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Disabled people failed by harsh benefit test
By Amy Clare | 23 March 2010, 12:23
Thousands of chronically ill and disabled people are being let down by the medical tests for the Government’s new disability benefit, Employment and Support Allowance, reports the BBC. Citizens Advice has criticised the tests as “crude” and pointed to the…
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UK Feminista launch
By Laura Woodhouse | 23 March 2010, 10:53
UK Feminista is a new feminist campaigning organisation aimed at bringing UK feminists together to fight for an end to gender inequality. It was co-founded by Kat Banyard, author of the recently published Equality Illusion. UK Feminista will provide campaigning…
Scotland’s new hate crime law
By Helen G | 23 March 2010, 10:15
From a press release by the Equality Network about Scotland’s new hate crime law, which will come into effect tomorrow, 24 March 2010: […] The new law is called the Offences (Aggravation by Prejudice) (Scotland) Act. It will mean that…
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Gender Studies and the objectification of transsexual people
By Guest Blogger | 22 March 2010, 15:01
thisismytruth girl explains why Gender Studies academia is not for her. As a transsexual woman I feel strongly that Gender Studies academics objectify transsexual people like lab rats. A year or two ago I considered doing Gender Studies at the…
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UK survey: 1 In 7 women students have been subjected to sexual assault or violence
By Helen G | 21 March 2010, 07:03
A recent UK survey of 2000 women by the National Union of Students is summarised in a report titled Hidden Marks (direct link to PDF). 1 in 7 women students (14%) has been the victim of serious sexual assault…
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Are you a Bad Girl? Mama Says Good Girls Marry Doctors
By Josephine Tsui | 20 March 2010, 00:25
The clashing of these values is a regular occurrence in every young person’s life, only it can be emphasized within immigrant cultures. There is no right path or decision. The problem is that EVERYONE has an opinion about it.
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Women’s Liberation Movement @ 40 - Reflections
By Catherine Redfern | 18 March 2010, 21:14
Photo of the Women Against Fundamentalism panel by helen.2006 used with a creative commons licence On 12-13th March I attended the Women’s Liberation Movement @ 40 conference held at Ruskin College, Oxford; the site of the original conference in…
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What is feminism? First survey results
By Catherine Redfern | 17 March 2010, 23:44
How do feminists explain what feminism is? These images might give you a clue. [Image shows a ‘cloud’ of 50 words (e.g. women, equality, men, belief); the words are different sizes based on how frequently they were mentioned] They are…
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New feature: In conversation with Senzeni Marasela
By Jess McCabe | 17 March 2010, 23:09
Last year Senzeni Marasela created an art installation called Jonga: the Museum of Women, Dolls & Memories, in a shop-front in Huntly, Scotland. Here Marasela talks to Claudia Zeiske about Barbie and the ways that beauty standards and pressures impose…
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New review: Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
By Jess McCabe | 17 March 2010, 19:06
Jess McCabe reviews Justine Larbalestier’s collection of 11 stories and accessible essays, which provide an engaging introduction to feminist scifi Curious about feminist science fiction, but don’t know where to begin reading? Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the…
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Round-up!
By Jess McCabe | 17 March 2010, 16:54
The Yarl’s Wood hunger strike has been suspended. The women hunger-strikers say: The suspension will last for three weeks until something is done to all the issues that had been raised. Our position will be reviewed on suspension of the…
What About Women?
By Laura Woodhouse | 16 March 2010, 10:42
The Fawcett Society’s What About Women? campaign is designed to push gender equality onto the political parties’ agendas in the run-up to the election. Fawcett have asked the parties a series of questions on women and the economy, work and…
New feature: Writing women back into punk
By Jess McCabe | 15 March 2010, 10:01
In the second installment of her series, Cazz Blase looks at how punk was covered by the music and feminist presses, the work of female journalists, and how women punks came to be largely written out of the history books…
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New feature: Painful vagina? Your poor husband!
By Jess McCabe | 14 March 2010, 12:34
S’s experience with vulvar vestibulitis - which makes penetrative sex painful - highlighted the phallocentric medical establishment and limited definitions of sex For almost 10 years I have suffered from a form of vulvodynia (vulval pain) known as vulvar vestibulitis,…
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Samira Ahmed, behind the scenes with C4 news
By Jess McCabe | 14 March 2010, 10:40
Subtext Magazine has posted an enlightening piece by Samira Ahmed from Channel 4 news, which looks at how international news is reported. Among other things, she talks about reporting on ‘corrective’ rapes in South Africa: There is a challenge there…
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Hidden Herstories: Women of Change, see it for free!
By Jess McCabe | 13 March 2010, 19:53
Hidden Herstories: Women of Change is a documentary which tells the stories of four influential women (Octavia Hill, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Claudia Jones and Jayaben Desai) who haven’t had their rightful place in the history books. It was made…
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New feature: Adventures in self-publishing
By Jess McCabe | 12 March 2010, 10:31
Can print-on-demand and self publishing help feminists today continue the legacy of the suffragettes & the women’s liberation movement? Deborah Withers considers the potential I have recently set up a publishing and information initiative, HammerOn Press, to publish my book,…
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Talk/discussion: LGBTI Rights in Uganda, March 21 in Manchester
By Helen G | 12 March 2010, 09:45
A Matter of Life and Death: LGBTI Rights in Uganda Talk/discussion 2-4pm Sunday 21st March, LGBT Centre, 49-51 Sidney Street, Manchester (Behind 8th Day Co-op off Oxford Rd) David Kato, LGBTI activist from Uganda and member of Sexual Minorities Uganda…
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UN climate finance panel a boys’ club
By Jess McCabe | 11 March 2010, 19:18
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has announced a key panel of 19 people, expected to mobilise $100 billion a year until 2020 to support the poorest nations affected by climate change. The panel is entirely made up of men. GenderCC,…
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Greater Manchester Police failed DV victims, say IPCC
By Amy Clare | 11 March 2010, 17:17
(Trigger warning: descriptions of domestic violence.) This will come as no surprise at all to many readers: it seems more victims of domestic violence have been officially let down by the police. According to BBC News, Greater Manchester Police have…
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Christie Elan-Cane: Fighting for legal and social recognition outside the societal gender system
By Helen G | 11 March 2010, 08:42
I last posted here about Christie Elan-Cane’s continuing fight for legal and social recognition outside the societal gender system in the UK in September 2008 and am interested to see the latest update on per LJ. Per has obtained the…
The Second Sex: lost in translation?
By Laura Woodhouse | 11 March 2010, 08:33
As a French student I was fortunate enough to read and study Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex in the original French, but I imagine many of you have read it in the English translation. Any translation will inevitably lose…
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Are you a Good Girl? Mama Says Good Girls Marry Doctors
By Josephine Tsui | 10 March 2010, 23:23
Young diasporic women are forging new feminist grounds and redefining how feminist tools are useful.
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EWL photo competition
By Helen G | 10 March 2010, 19:11
The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) - the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the EU - has announced the details of its 2010 Photography Competition and Exhibition. The subject is My world: Visions of 21st Century Feminism and the…
Welcome to our latest guest bloggers… Josephine and Piyali
By Jess McCabe | 10 March 2010, 16:54
A warm welcome to our latest guest bloggers this month! Josephine Tsui works in women’s rights and international development. As a graduate from the University of Calgary and the School of Oriental and African Studies, her research has focused on…
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Demonstrate in solidarity with Yarl’s Wood hunger strikers
By Laura Woodhouse | 10 March 2010, 14:06
There will be a demonstration at Holloway Prison (Parkhurst Road, London, N7 0NU) at 6.30pm tonight, in support of the five hunger strikers imprisoned there as well as the twenty women still refusing food at Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre. The…
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We Are Women Too
By Philippa Willitts | 10 March 2010, 10:21
A speech by Eleanor Lisney and Michelle Daley about the need for disabled women’s experiences to be a vital part of the women’s movement.
South African women need more than World Cup condoms
By Amy Clare | 9 March 2010, 18:32
HIV/Aids is now the biggest worldwide cause of death and disease among reproductive-age women, according to the BBC’s report into a new initiative by UNAids, the UN’s HIV/Aids agency. The initiative aims to identify the gender issues responsible for women…
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Clearing out my inbox round-up
By Laura Woodhouse | 9 March 2010, 16:47
Apologies for not having time to blog all these properly! The Observer profiles four women who gave birth in prison, one of whom was shackled while pregnant and during hospital treatments. Human Rights Watch are calling for the release of…
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She-Wolves in Manchester
By Guest Blogger | 9 March 2010, 14:10
Hannah Priest is holding a conference about female werewolves In September 2010, a colleague and I will be hosting a conference at the University of Manchester on female werewolves in art, literature, folklore and film. While this might seem like…
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Peston picks on Gordon
By Lynne Miles | 9 March 2010, 13:37
Robert Peston, business editor of the BBC, thinks that: “the dearth of women at the top must surely be depriving the UK of incremental income at a time when we need every penny we can squeeze to pay our way…
Disabled Women’s Photography Exhibition
By Philippa Willitts | 9 March 2010, 10:30
Philippa talks about an art project by Women Making Waves and Women Living Independently in Leitrim, exploring issues of gender, self-image and disability.
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Govt announces new role on global violence against women
By zohra moosa | 8 March 2010, 17:42
I originally posted this (in a slightly amended form) on Reuters’ IWD live event. Update: Hannah Wright posted a great piece with background on this issue earlier today. Today the UK Government made a decision that could improve the lives…
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Hollywood glass ceiling is shattered, but women are still losing out in film and TV
By Amy Clare | 8 March 2010, 16:23
On the eve of International Women’s Day, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, for her Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker. She is one of only five women to have even been nominated…
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International Women’s Day 2010: celebrate the women in your life
By Laura Woodhouse | 8 March 2010, 15:51
International Women’s Day is a fantastic opportunity to draw attention to women’s continued fight for liberation across the world. Harpymarx has written a comprehensive post detailing many of the reasons why this struggle continues, from the gender pay gap to…
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International Women’s Day 2010: Women’s rights abroad are not a UK priority
By Guest Blogger | 8 March 2010, 15:14
Hannah Wright argues that the British Government’s actions do not live up to its words when it comes to promoting global gender equality. Each year, International Women’s Day provides a welcome opportunity to assess the progress which has - or…
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Three rape crisis centres to open in London this year!
By Jess McCabe | 8 March 2010, 12:08
London mayor Boris Johnson will keep his promise and open three rape crisis centres in London this year! In a press release today the mayor announced: Islington and Westminster councils have taken the lead to deliver new Rape Crisis services…
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Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum
By Philippa Willitts | 8 March 2010, 10:58
Philippa reports on Asylum Aid’s charter of rights of women seeking asylum
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New review: Women
By Jess McCabe | 8 March 2010, 10:06
This three-part BBC documentary has many interesting moments, say Charlotte Cooper and Jess McCabe. However, the series fails to adequately represent women of colour’s involvement in feminism and conceives of the family through a heteronormative lens Vanessa Engle’s three-part documentary…
International Women’s Day 2010: Supporting women’s organisations and services
By Guest Blogger | 8 March 2010, 09:54
Vivienne Hayes, Chief Executive of the Women’s Resource Centre, argues that the women’s sector is essential to our ongoing fight for equality. It has been almost 100 years since the declaration of IWD and we still have some way to…
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Turkey: IWD for those on the margins of society
By Helen G | 8 March 2010, 09:50
The Istanbul-based Hürriyet Daily News carries a short piece containing interviews with three women who live, as the newspaper puts it, on the margins of society. Interviewed are Ecem Dalga (a lesbian woman who works for Lambdaİstanbul), Nevin Öztop (a…
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Million Women Rise 2010
By Jess McCabe | 7 March 2010, 22:48
Eight thousand* women marched through central London yesterday for Million Women Rise, to demand an end to the “continued daily, hourly, minute-by-minute individual and institutionalised male violence enacted against women worldwide”. The third Million Women Rise was just as…
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The F-Word Blog Charter
By Jess McCabe | 5 March 2010, 22:04
The way we work over in the blog part of The F-Word has been changing. For some time now, we (the regular bloggers here) have behind the scenes been running the blog section of the site as a collective. Following…
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South Africa: the continuing rise of ‘corrective’ rape
By Helen G | 5 March 2010, 12:32
Although the term ‘corrective’ rape is a comparative neologism, the concept - whereby men rape lesbian women, purportedly as a means of “curing” the woman of her sexual orientation (Wikipedia) - isn’t. And while the practice isn’t exclusive to South…
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Rape victim jailed for making “false” allegations
By Laura Woodhouse | 5 March 2010, 12:27
This is frightening. Amy Clare shared this BBC story about Mrs Gail Sherwood, who has been sentenced to two years in jail for perverting the course of justice by making false rape allegations. This follows claims that she was stalked…
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Calling feminists in Yorkshire …
By Lynne Miles | 5 March 2010, 11:11
We received this from the HOPE not hate campaign: “To mark International Women’s Day the HOPE not hate campaign is taking to the streets of Yorkshire on Saturday 6 March to explain why the BNP is not the party for…
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Sexism in the atheist community: not rational, not reasonable, not funny
By Amy Clare | 3 March 2010, 22:30
Those who are familiar with my comments on this site will know that I am highly critical of religion. This is mainly due to a lack of evidence for a god or gods. However, the misogyny contained within most holy…
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Introducing one of our guest bloggers for March: Amy Clare
By Holly Combe | 3 March 2010, 22:00
Now that we are into March, it’s sadly time to say goodbye to our excellent guest bloggers for February, Jolene and Joanna. However, that also means we have new talent during March, one of whom will shortly be posting her…
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Action alert!
By zohra moosa | 3 March 2010, 16:35
In February the UK Gender and Development Network (GADN) launched its five point election manifesto (pdf), calling on all political parties, their leaders and their politicians and candidates to put women’s rights at the heart of their electioneering. It has…
International Women’s Day, Million Women Rise, and trans inclusion
By Lynne Miles | 3 March 2010, 11:31
This weeekend is the closest to International Women’s Day (which actually falls on Monday) and so there’s a fantastic range of events planned focused on and around women. If you want to find out about the hundreds of events going…
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UN Commission on the Status of Women
By zohra moosa | 2 March 2010, 14:42
Am in New York blogging on the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) with openDemocracy for the next week. This year is slightly different to previous CSWs in that it is marking 15 years since the Beijing…
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Assistance to live
By Laura Woodhouse | 2 March 2010, 12:16
The Director of Public Prosecutions issued new guidelines on Friday for the prosecution of people who assist others to commit suicide. The guidelines do not change the law on assisted suicide (euthanasia), but could enable individuals to walk free from…
January feature, review comments - up now!
By Jess McCabe | 2 March 2010, 11:41
Our comments round-up for your feedback on January features and reviews is up now, ready for your perusal. Massive thanks once again to Helen G for compiling and coding all the comments; and like last month, the delay in…
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Reclaiming Birth rally
By Guest Blogger | 1 March 2010, 18:04
Amity Reed invites us to march for maternity care reform. The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS), along with the National Childbirth Trust and many midwifery organisations, are Reclaiming Birth by organising a march to Whitehall via Westminster…
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