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Why get involved?

Last week, a report revealed police officers making sickening ‘jokes’ about sexually assaulting colleagues, abusing their partners, and using disgraceful racist and ableist language and more.

WE took action by placing 'fake incident' signs around the police station involved in the report, and by making 750 calls to the Home Secretary to demand an independent inquiry into misogyny and a radical overhaul of the Police force. 

Out of roughly 750 Met officers and staff who faced sexual misconduct allegations, just 83 of them were sacked. Priti Patel is responsible for holding the Police to account. She has the power to launch an independent and statutory inquiry into misogyny for ALL police forces.

It is imperative WE continue taking action to ensure our demands are heard.

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#OnlyStatuesMatter - PHASE TWO ✊

UPDATE:

The government’s Policing Bill suffered significant defeats in the Lords, but this new legislation will still introduce an absurd potential ten-year prison sentence for defacing a statue while doing nothing to end violence against women - unless we keep the pressure up. 

New measures have been added to the Bill to make misogyny a hate crime and to tackle drink spiking, but the government will throw them out unless we act now. Help us send a message to the government that women’s lives matter more than statues.

Why protest?

While the government has been battling to pass this indefensible legislation, 1.6m women are experiencing DA every year, and nearly ninety percent of women have reported experiencing harassment. Women are being let down.

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The Women’s Equality Party are contesting the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) election in North Yorkshire.

Every week, nine women in North Yorkshire experience sexual assault and seven experience rape. Reports of harassment and stalking shot up by 83% in North Yorkshire in just a year and an average of 15 domestic abuse offences are reported to the police every single day.

It doesn’t have to be like this. Violence against women is not inevitable.

Who is our candidate?

Dr Hannah Barham-Brown will be contesting the PFCC election in North Yorkshire on 25th November.

Working as GP Registrar in Leeds, and living in North Yorkshire, Hannah understands the needs of and the challenges faced by women, and took part in the protests against Philip Allott following his victim blaming comments. This is a huge opportunity to build a better future for women and girls in North Yorkshire, and send a message to politicians everywhere.

What will we do with the role?

The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners are responsible for huge remits and budgets to hold the police to account. North Yorkshire has shown exactly how powerful we are when we organised to remove Philip Allott from office after his disgraceful, victim blaming comments. Now it’s time to finish the job. Here's what WE will do:

• Make ending violence against women and girls a top policing priority.
• Launch an independent inquiry into misogyny in North Yorkshire Police. Run quarterly scrutiny panels reviewing the reasons abuse and sexual violence cases are dropped.
• Ringfence discretionary funding for EVAWG organisations, particularly for sustainable funding for specialised services supporting Disabled, LGBTQ+, black and minoritised women.
• Ensure specialist support for everyone reporting abuse and sexual violence.
• Implement compulsory training for all agencies working with black and minoritised women who are victims of violence.
• Ensure a trauma- informed and victim-led approach to investigations.

Enough is enough we will not allow politicians to sit idly by while women lose their lives, rights and freedoms in the face of violence.

Vote for Women's Equality Party candidate, Hannah Barham-Brown for the PFCC for North Yorkshire on 25th November.

 Twitter: @HannahPopsy    Instagram: @HannahPopsy1     Facebook @HannahBarhamBrown

Don’t let the Government roll back our rights to at-home medical abortion services

At home medical abortion services have revolutionised access to sexual healthcare. It has reduced the number of women accessing online abortion pills illegally by nearly 90%, increased speed of access to services despite a global pandemic and is the preferred form of treatment for the majority of patients.

There is absolutely no justification for withdrawing telemedical abortion services, and denying many women access to services and putting even more pressure on our health service. 

Sign below to demand that the Government maintain access to telemedical abortion services.

Demand that your MP champions the rights of women and girls. 

1. Follow this link to find and contact your MP.
2. Use the template copy below to send to your MP.
3. Edit the email to include your MP's name and your name, and to include any additional comments.

Dear [INSERT MP’s NAME] MP,

I am writing to ask you to champion the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.

The UK must take responsibility for our catastrophic role in causing and worsening conflict in Afghanistan. We must not abandon its people again. 

We have a responsibility to women and girls in Afghanistan, and to all Afghan refugees to grant those who wish to leave with safe routes to the UK and to use our influence to champion the rights of women in the country. 

Please urge the Government to:

1. Grant immediate refugee status for all Afghan asylum seekers currently in the UK.
2. Provide safe routes to refugee status for those fleeing the crisis, especially the Afghan women and girls facing misogynistic violence and persecution.
3. Reduce the barriers for those already in the UK to settle their families here and to support family reunification.
4. Make a serious, long term commitment to use our influence to defend the rights of the women and girls of Afghanistan.

You have the power to send a clear message to the Government that Parliament will not allow them to abandon Afghan people, please do your part to ensure their rights dominate the debate tomorrow. 

Yours sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]

Demand that your MP calls for an independent inquiry into the impact of the Covid pandemic on Disabled people.

1. Follow this link to find and contact your MP.
2. Use the template copy below to send to your MP.
3. Edit the email to include your MP's name and your name, and to include any additional comments.

Dear [Your MP’s name] MP,

I am writing to ask you to act urgently to call for an independent inquiry into the impact of the Covid pandemic on disabled people, which also includes an analysis into the impact that gender has on outcomes for disabled people.

A study carried out by the Office for National Statistics and researchers at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , issued a report in June of this year. The report’s findings included the following: 

[D]isabled people were at higher risk because they are disproportionately exposed to a range of circumstances that actually disadvantaged them, as no single factor explained the results. In addition, we found that disabled people were at higher risk of death from all causes during this period, only a fraction of which involved COVID-19. This finding implies a need to improve services and access to healthcare for disabled people, and tackling the drivers of disadvantage and excess mortality, both during and after the pandemic.

Over a decade of austerity that has targeted disabled people, a fundamental lack of funded social care and multiple barriers to accessing education or work have led to higher mortality rates. While disabled men have also seen a huge disparity in outcomes, the additional discrimination faced by women puts disabled women at higher risk. 

Key facts from this study include:

• People with learning disabilities were approximately 4-5 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19, and 7-8 times more likely to die.
• Working-age disabled women with higher support needs are 91% more likely to die then their non-disabled counterparts.
• Working-age disabled women with lower support needs are twice as likely to die as their non-disabled counterparts. 
• 58% of those who died from COVID-19 in England were disabled people.

When Dominic Cummings shared the whiteboard picture with the words “Who do we not save?” We knew the answer was Disabled women. 

In the summer the Women’s Equality Party Disability Caucus protested for 91 hours at Parliament square to highlight these shocking findings and to demand an inquiry The caucus also held local protests and an online rally to demand change.

Disabled women are not just a statistic you can ignore, but women with full and ordinary lives. We are your sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunties and friends. We have careers and degrees, and we have hopes and dreams just like everyone else. Disabled women should not have been more at risk of dying from Covid.

As your constituent I am asking you to please join calls demanding an inquiry into the impact of the Covid pandemic on disabled people

Yours sincerely,

[Your name and address]

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