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Exclusive: United Nations slams the UK for failing to properly implement the convention signed by Mrs Thatcher to eliminate all discrimination against women

Exclusive: United Nations slams the UK for failing to properly implement the convention signed by Mrs Thatcher to eliminate all discrimination against women

The UN committee monitoring progress by the UK to implement the UN Convention to end all forms of discrimination against women and girls (CEDAW) ratified by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 has severely criticised the foot dragging by the British government under Boris Johnson to fully implement it. CEDAW in session; Pic Credit UN News In a strongly worded report the Geneva based organisation…

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Labour MP takes up scandal of the 9.8 million men who got free national insurance credits while women got nothing

Lloyd Russell – Moyle MP : Pic Credit: Labour South East A Labour MP is challenging Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, to ” correct the imbalance ” that allowed up to 9.8 million men to claim free national insurance contributions from the state while 50s born women were stopped from claiming anything. He is the first MP to raise this issue, disclosed on this blog three years ago,…

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Campaign to end discrimination against women reaches Downing Street

Rishi Sunak gets a report on why women are still hugely disadvantaged in decision making across the world Video from Downing Street where Jocelynne Scutt hands in the report on Women, Power and Decision Making to Number Ten Here is a video taken yesterday when Jocelynne Scutt, a former Australian judge and anti discrimination commissioner and now an academic in the UK, handed in a report to the…

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Direct Discrimination: Former Judge Jocelynne Scutt's verdict on the 50swomen pension delay

Direct Discrimination: Former Judge Jocelynne Scutt’s verdict on the 50swomen pension delay

Jocelynne Scutt Some 3.8 million women suffered direct discrimination by the Tory government’s decision in 1995 to raise the pension age, of women to 65 and then 66, MPs and peers will be told at a briefing in Parliament today. This is the main finding of a big report by Jocelynne Scutt, a former Australian judge who served on the Fiji bench and was Tasmania’s first Anti Discrimination…

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My evidence to the CEDAW in Law Tribunal this month on the egregious plight of 50s women and their lost pensions

My evidence to the CEDAW in Law Tribunal this month on the egregious plight of 50s women and their lost pensions

Giving evidence to CEDAW in LAW tribunal Earlier this month I gave evidence to a tribunal set up by CEDAW in LAW presided over by Australian judge Jocelynne Scutt on the situation affecting 3.8 million women who have had to wait an extra six years to get their pension. My evidence tries to explain how this situation came about going back to 1988 when the government decided to end Treasury…

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Exclusive: What's missing for women's rights in the UK: Former judge Dr Jocelynne Scutt and former chief prosecutor Nazil Afzal talk about CEDAW

Exclusive: What’s missing for women’s rights in the UK: Former judge Dr Jocelynne Scutt and former chief prosecutor Nazil Afzal talk about CEDAW

Dr Jocelynne Scutt, President of panel of judges of the CEDAW People’s tribunal , Nazir Afzal Legal Consultant to the tribunal Two of the leading people talk in advance of the planned People’s Tribunal in London Later this year there will be a People’s Tribunal in London to evaluate the need for the UN Convention on the elimination of all discrimination against women to be put into domestic…

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'The personal is political' has a direct relevance to calls for peace and ecological compassion. Accepting or subscribing to standards of violence, exploitation and abuse in the private world makes a mockery of any calls for peace and environmental care in the public arena. [T]he calls for peace and an end to the pillaging of the earth are drown out, in the ears of those who are open to them, by the cries of women and children who are beaten, abused and raped in their own homes.

Jocelynne A. Scutt “The Personal Is Political” 1996