⏰Just a few hours to go before our next #webinar (with a good-natured internal competition to see if we can beat our last one for numbers – it's getting close!)
🎟️Register for In Defence of the Equality Act: https://t.co/7k7wUfkKm5
🕕starts at 6.30pm, ends 8pm, with @akuareindorf, @AudreySuffolk and Prof.Mary Davis.
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights ♀️
Pregnancy and maternity is one of the nine protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act.
Our guidance outlines different types of pregnancy and maternity discrimination as well as your workplace rights.
Read more 👉 https://t.co/3xWUhAaKWv
🧵🧵TUC Motion 17 ad the impact on women's sex-based rights - letters to GSs, their responses and follow-up emails from women dissatisfied with the answers they had.
The questions women raise here are vital. They need proper consideration and serious answers. @FiLiA_charity
🧵TUC Motion 17 update: Women have been sending our model letter to their General Secretaries, asking five key questions of them.
📧We have been sent responses from Unite, Unison, NEU and NASUWT, along with follow-up emails sent to two of these unions by Women who are unhappy with the response.
Read them here ➡️ https://t.co/LkLI95TwoV
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
Four of the biggest @The_TUC unions have responded to women who wrote to their unions about the implications of TUC Motion 17 for women's rights: @Unison@unitetheunion@NEUnion@NASUWT
The responses make interesting reading...
https://t.co/9AKcj0FFRz
🎩 @FiLiA_charity
If you haven't written to your union yet, see link for model text.
If you have, please send it to @FiLiA_charity
If you are not happy with the response, please write again!
Members have a right to know where unions stand on Women's rights.
https://t.co/TNIkgMbIk2
"This bill risks moving us backwards from gains that have been so hard fought. Forstater, FWS, Cass Review. This bill puts them at risk, and it's why it's going to be such a tough fight"
@soniasodha uncovers the risks & harms in the Draft Conversion Practices Ban Bill
#LWDLiverpool26
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https://t.co/vDkjwig8Rl
"When women, lesbian women & some gay men started to realise what was at stake, anyone brave enough to speak up about women's & LGB rights was vilified, branded bigots, transphobes & TERFS. The most vocal in making these slurs were men, but sadly not exclusively so"
@tracygilbert72's speech includes welcome to @michaeljmarra, in attendance
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https://t.co/SPgVTRjOGJ
"Identity politics has morphed into... an incoherent authoritarianism...
And what I still fail to get my head around is how could this be seen as any kind of political activism, political movement, or indeed a political ideology"
@JoaniReid MP at #LWDLiverpool26
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https://t.co/Pa0Pb0M8IL
"How did the campaign to remove women's rights find such fertile ground in the Labour movement?"
Chair @ToniaAntoniazzi introduces humdinger speeches from @JoaniReid@tracygilbert72 & then @soniasodha, who unmasks the harms of the Conversion Bill in 🧵⬇️
#LWDLIverpool26 fringe
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https://t.co/nA4QwIR8yk
📢Breaking news, we have extended our next webinar until 8PM! 📢
📺Watch @akuareindorf, Prof. Mary Davis & @AudreySuffolk discuss In Defence of the Equality Act.
📆 Thursday 22nd October 6.30PM BST
🌐 Online via Zoom
🎫 https://t.co/7k7wUfkKm5
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
🌐 Global Day of Action for Palestine
🇵🇸 Three years of Israel's Genocide in Gaza will be marked around the world on Saturday 10 October
🇵🇸 London national demo
⏰ Noon
📍 Assemble Victoria Embankment
🚶♀️🚶🏾♂️March to Downing Street
🗣️ Demand the govt #StopArmingIsrael
Too many women and children continue to live with domestic abuse and its impact every day.
It was good to meet with Women's Aid at Labour Conference and hear more about their work supporting survivors and raising awareness of issues such as economic abuse and coercive control.
Labour Women's Declaration are an organisation of brave, left wing women campaigning for the affirmation of sex based rights. it was a pleasure to call by your stand at #LabourConference2026 🌹