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The European Congress of Families and The International Organization for the Family
Karam Bales delves into a conference with ties to a Russian backed anti-gender network
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Brianna Ghey: ‘When the World Finally Saw the Person Her Family Always Loved’
Katherine O’Donnell delivers a powerful rebuke to the media and politicians for the ‘irrational, obsessional’ hatred and misrepresentation that Brianna Ghey and her family faced every day
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The Culture War Coming for Your Birth Control
Contraceptive rights has become the new front in the far-right’s attack on women
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LOCAL ELECTIONS 2023: Rishi Sunak Falls Victim to his Own ‘War on Woke’
The Conservative Party’s huge defeats in the local elections reveal a party that is increasingly out of step with modern Britain, reports Adam Bienkov
2019 General Election, Austerity, BBC, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Broadcasters, Class, Conservative Party, Democracy, Equality and Diversity, Extremism, Gender, Immigration, Journalism, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, LGBT, Liberal Democrats, Media, Newspapers, Populism, Racism, Racism and Structural Inequality, Rishi Sunak, Rupert Murdoch, Sexuality, Suella Braverman, The Far-Right, UK Politics
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Rishi Sunak’s New Far-Right Ally and the International Authoritarian Elite
Sunak’s warm welcome of the far right Italian Prime Minister exposes the increasingly authoritarian direction of his own Government, reports Adam Bienkov
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The Starmer Audit: Three Years On, has the Labour Leader Kept his Pledges?
On the three-year anniversary of Keir Starmer becoming Labour Leader, Adam Bienkov analyses whether he has kept to his word or broken it
Antisemitism, Austerity, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Climate Change, Conservative Party, Constitution, Corruption, Crime and Justice, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Equality and Diversity, Foreign Affairs, Gender, Health, House of Lords, Identity, Ideology, Immigration, Iraq, Islamophobia, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, LGBT, Middle East, Migration, NHS, Parliament, Protest, Racism, Rights, Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman, Trade Unions
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Power and Exclusion: The UK Church Failing the LGBTQ+ Community
Revd Joe Haward reflects on how hardliners in the Church are stifling progress on LGBTQ+ rights – but homophobia and transphobia are not confined to evangelical congregations
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REVEALED: Government has Trade Deals with 23 Countries that Criminalise Homosexuality
As football’s record on LGBTIQ rights goes under the spotlight during the World Cup, Sian Norris reports on the Government’s trading agreements with anti-LGBTIQ regimes
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Seven Decades of Social Progress – But is the UK Heading Backwards?
The Byline Intelligence Team digs into the story of the past 70 years in data
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The Upside Down: Themself Alone
John Mitchinson explores a surprisingly modern role model from the backstreets of Jacobean London
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25 Afghan Men Claiming Asylum in UK on Sexuality Grounds Refused Since 2017
An investigation by Sian Norris with the Byline Intelligence Team explores the vulnerability of LGBTIQ people looking for a safe home in Britain
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Tolerating Intolerance: UK Military Failing its LGBTQ Personnel
Murray Jones reports on the Government’s failure to offer information on its acquiescence to the repressive rules of foreign militaries
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Boris Johnson is Fighting a ‘Culture War’ to Cling On to Power
The Prime Minister’s divisive comments about trans people are part of a broader attempt to replace his losing political war with a winning cultural war, reports Adam Bienkov
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Institutional Inequality: The Gender Pay Gap in the Highest Ranks of the Civil Service
Sascha Lavin exposes the vast differences in income among the highest-earning public servants
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Eleven Government Departments have No Women of Colour Ministers
Exclusive analysis by Byline Times reveals the lack of gender and ethnic diversity at the top levels of Government
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The Far-Right Co-Option of the Transgender Rights Issue
As political leaders are asked if it’s transphobic to say only women have a cervix, Sian Norris investigates how far-right and religious-right groups are using ‘gender critical’ arguments to further their anti-LGBTIQ agenda
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America Faces Its Biggest Abortion Battle Yet – How Did We Get Here?
As Texas bans abortion after six weeks and the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could overturn the law allowing safe, legal abortion, Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda trace the right wing, racist and biblical forces in play
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Just An Empty Egg Box: How the Far-Right Shames Women
Women in the far-right are subjected to both benevolent and malevolent misogyny that reveres them as mothers and degrades them for failing in their ‘duty’
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‘The Network Saves Lives’: How a Map is Helping to Tackle Violence Against Women in Latin America
Approximately 10 women a day are killed by men in Mexico – but a network of women’s activists are taking action to signpost support services and save lives
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The White, Male Faces of Global Britain
The UK’s new international trade envoys are overwhelmingly male and all white – but that’s not surprising considering the Government’s new approach to equality
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Why is Deadly Misogyny Not Recognised as a Form of Extremism?
The Plymouth shooting is a perfect illustration of the failure of the UK’s counter-terrorism apparatus to fully understand emerging threats, argues Dr Maria Norris
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From the Taliban to Incels: The Global War On Women
Women’s rights are under attack around the world because of a belief in a fascistic natural order that naturalises male supremacy, reports Sian Norris
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Incels: The Radicalised Extremist Community of White Male Supremacists
As news reports suggest that the man behind the mass shooting in Plymouth identified as an “incel”, Sian Norris reveals the extremist misogynistic ideology that fuels the movement
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What’s Gone Wrong with the ‘Sex Game Gone Wrong’ Defence Ban?
The Domestic Abuse Bill promised to end the use of the defence after a woman is killed, but as two recent cases show, that simply hasn’t happened
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Prisoners Released on Temporary Licence Plummet
The number of prisoners able to access temporary release to go to work – or take a job in prison – has dramatically decreased during the pandemic, and women are disproportionately impacted
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Watch Your Tone! How Women MPs of Colour are Tone-Policed
n the same week that Dawn Butler was expelled from the House of Commons, MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan was ‘tone-policed’ by a white MP – and not for the first time. Sian Norris analyses a worrying trend
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Using Democracy to Undermine Equality: Hungary’s Referendum on LGBTIQ Rights is Part of a Wider Pattern
Voters in Ireland, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia have all been asked to vote on LGBTIQ equality in the past decade – now Hungary’s population will go to the ballot box to decide on the same issue
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Mind the Gap: Top Male Government Special Advisors Paid 22% More than Female Counterparts
Analysis of the gender pay gap in Government by the Byline Intelligence Team shows that Westminster has a long way to go to achieve equal pay
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New Report Reveals Western Funding Streams for Conversion Therapy in Africa
An investigation by openDemocracy 50:50 has found that clinics offering ‘anti-gay therapy’ have received funding from Western NGOs – at a time when a ban on conversion therapy is in the UK spotlight
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New Research on Minority Women’s Experience of Prison Contradicts Claim ‘Systemic Racism is Not an Issue for the UK’
A new report reveals how racially minoritised women endure longer sentences and a longer-term impact of imprisonment than their white peers, reports Sian Norris
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How the US Christian Right Lends Support to Europe’s Anti-LGBTIQ Movement
American activist Brian Brown gave a speech about his ‘hope and optimism’ that US conservatives will join him in supporting Levan Vasadze’s anti-rights agenda in Georgia, reports Sian Norris
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The Money Men Behind CitizenGO’s Anti-Rights Agenda
In the second of her series on the anti-abortion, anti-LGBTIQ campaigning platform CitizenGO, Sian Norris examines its funding model and the financial scandal haunting one of its board members
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Anti-Gender Groups’ Latest Attempt to Prevent Progress on Abortion Rights in Europe
Anti-gender organisations with links to the far-right and European aristocracy have launched a campaign to prevent the approval of the Matic Report on sexual and reproductive health
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The Trump Supporters, Russian Oligarchs and Aristocrats Funding Anti-Gender Actors in Europe
A report published by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights reveals the extent of money being channelled to anti-abortion, anti-LGBTIQ initiatives
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It’s Time to Talk About Racism in the Anti-Abortion Movement
Women of colour are disproportionately impacted by restrictions to abortion – and those restrictions are fuelled by racist ideology, argues Dr Pragya Agarwal
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Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBTIQ Organisation Opens First University in Poland
A member of the UK’s House of Lords and a duchess linked to the British Royal Family will attend the launch of Ordo Iuris’ new university later this week
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BBC’s ‘Three Families’ Shows How the Fight For Abortion Rights in the UK Continues
A primetime drama about abortion in Northern Ireland shows that there is more work to be done to protect a woman’s right to choose in the UK, Sian Norris argues
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Who is Behind Spain’s Anti-Rights Movement?
In the first of a series, Sian Norris reports on the global network behind Spanish-founded anti-rights platform CitizenGO – friends with the far-right Vox Party
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UNESCO Names Brexiter Arron Banks as ‘Prime Instigator’ of Online Harassment Against Female Journalist
A report into online violence against women journalists finds political actors and right-wing media play a significant role in spreading disinformation and inciting harassment, Sian Norris reports
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Government Cuts to Reproductive Health Funding Fit into an Anti-Rights Agenda
The international aid cuts to reproductive health services put women’s lives at risk and reflect the anti-rights positions of more than one Conservative donor, Sian Norris reports
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‘A Deep Hostility to Women’s Equality’: More Accusations of Police Misogyny in the Spy Cops Inquiry
The latest hearing in the ‘Spy Cops’ inquiry revealed how officers infiltrated the Women’s Movement with a culture of institutionalised sexism that paved the way to sexual abuse, reports Sian Norris
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‘Most British Institutions Pander to the Mail’s Blackmailing and Racism’
As attacks by right-wing tabloids on female academics intensify, Sian Norris explores why they appear to be able to publish such material with impunity
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‘Depths and Depths of Dysfunction’: Are Universities Failing to Tackle Sexual Assault?
Sian Norris speaks to protestors in Warwick who are demanding that their university takes action on sexual assault – but is the sector as a whole failing to protect women students?
