A new website tackling online abuse aimed at women and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) people is launched today. Stop Online Abuse (www.stoponlineabuse.org.uk), the government funded site was created by Galop, an LGBT anti-violence charity, in consultation with Trans Media Watch, the Women’s Resource Centre, Gender Identity Research and Education Society, Rights of Women, more »
CONTINUE READINGFunded by Comic Relief, this project is all about challenging negative media stereotypes about the issues that women face in society: health issues, disability, immigration, welfare, physical and sexual violence, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, education, and so on. As TV programs such as Benefits Street affect the ways in which the public perceive these issues, we more »
CONTINUE READINGClore Social Leadership Programme opens for 2016 with new Fellowships in gender equality, youth social justice and migrant communities Applications for the 2016 Clore Social Leadership Programme open on Monday (11 May) and, this year, candidates working in the fields of gender equality, youth social justice and migrant communities are invited to apply for three more »
CONTINUE READINGWe the undersigned would like to express our concern and dismay about a poster on the crucially important subject of child sexual exploitation which has been produced and is being circulated by the police-led National Working Group on Child Sexual Exploitation The poster uses the face of a white child with a black/brown hand over her more »
CONTINUE READINGWRC are delighted with the announcement that our Award winning organisation’s Award winning Chief Executive has been listed over the weekend as a recipient of an MBE. Vivienne Hayes has spent almost three decades working to improve the lives of women and it is well deserved that she should now receive national recognition at the more »
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