The debate surrounding the statue has been rekindled, owing to a public consultation recently launched by Stroud District Council over street names, building names and monuments. Green co...
“What’s happening beyond our shores is a giant blank in the public debate, and a space where almost anything goes.” Green Peer Natalie Bennett outlines the ongoing debate surrounding huma...
“One of the major concerns raised at the time was that there were no provisions specifically for women with insecure legal status and unfortunately that has become reality.” Women’s corre...
"It is undeniable that not everyone has been affected equally and being white, male, middle-class or middle-aged has had certain insulating effects." Green World’s women correspondent Cha...
Following the Queen’s Speech delivered in the House of Commons yesterday (11 May), Green Peer Natalie Bennett highlights the lack of ‘fair, regulated, non-exploitative’ employment laws me...
“Politicians express their Antigypsyism in different ways – even during election campaigns – by promoting Antigypsy policies.” Virgil Bitu describes how GRT communities are viewed by poli...
“Criminalising street harassment will benefit women today as it shows such behaviour is no longer considered acceptable and punishes those responsible.” Green World’s women correspondent ...
“The message is such that people are allowed to discriminate against Gypsies, Roma and Travellers because there is nobody to stand by us and there is no government or institution to repre...
“There were already six Labs in Wales by this point. What about my city? Where was Newport’s Lab?” Deputy Leader of Wales Green Party Lauren James describes the progress of the UBI pilot ...
“How could the UK Government ever argue that the migrant healthcare workers who have saved thousands of lives during a pandemic are not ‘deserving’ in the system they have created?” Aaron...
“We should be wary that the economic fallout of Brexit will be used as a reason not to further improve the rights and entitlements afforded to pregnant women and working parents.” Charlot...
“At long last, the case turns the tide against a gig economy that too often profits from rolling back hard-won rights.” Transport Spokesperson and London Assembly member Caroline Russell ...
“We cannot have a successful Covid strategy without the empathy and collaboration of women.” On International Women’s Day, Green Party Women consider why and how nations led by women appe...
Following the passing of a reparations motion at a Bristol Council meeting yesterday (2 March), Green Councillors Cleo Lake, Eleanor Combley and Jerome Thomas reflect on the historic mome...
There are growing calls for the Equality and Human Rights Commission to examine the UK Government’s role in how the Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting women, with British m...
“This is why I advocate for the restoration of Lake Chad as one of the solutions that will end violence against women and girls – because women’s right are environmental rights.” Nigerian...
“Some marginalised communities may find themselves criminalised simply for following their traditional way of life.” Former MEP Catherine Rowett explores the issue of criminalising trespa...
David Newman, environmental campaigner and author of Everything is Connected, revisits the famous speech by Scottish trade union activist Jimmy Reid in 1972, and how its message about way...
“The Domestic Abuse Bill 2020 is an important step forward; implementing the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women would be too.” Caitlin Collins, Dawn Fu...
