Found out today I’ve been nominated for the @ECPATUK 2022 U.K Children’s Champion for all my advocacy on behalf of and direct work with children who have experienced trafficking and exploitation, and honestly my heart is so full I could burst 😩💜
🚨 BREAKING: Rough sleeping will be decriminalised tomorrow as the Government repeals the 1824 Vagrancy Act
It means police won’t be able to move on homeless people sleeping or begging on the streets
There's not a single person in Britain who doesn't agree that the death of Henry Nowak was a tragedy, and the way the police handled it was absolutely disgraceful.
There's only one political party, however, who want to take that family's pain and politicise it for their own benefit.
Why doesn’t this BBC story examine why there’s a market for fathers selling their young daughters to other men in the first place? What a strange omission - it’s like the reality that these girls are being sold as child brides to be raped by adult men is invisible or something.
As I said yesterday, slavery is still a reality in this world and women are at the coalface of it. There is no other word for this inhumanity than slavery. Yet the UN remains silent and continues to give Afghanistan seats on its committees.