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Nearly Two-Thirds of Prison Staff Guilty of Sexual Harassment Kept their Jobs
After exposing the number of police officers found guilty of sexual misconduct who kept their jobs, Sascha Lavin investigates sexual harassment in the prison system for the Byline Intelligence Team
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Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Ignores Demands for Inquiry into Peter Thiel’s Far-Right Influence
Cambridge University fails to answer questions raised by staff and students after Byline Times’ revelation that racist pseudoscience is being promoted on campus under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’
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This Is My Proof: How Women Are Processing Violence and Domestic Abuse Through Art
With women facing a crisis of justice when it comes to gender-based violence, survivors are turning to creative ways to process trauma and tell their own stories
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The ‘Hostile Environment’ Continues: Home Office Rejects ‘Firewall’ for Migrant Victims of Abuse
Migrant women in abusive relationships fear that reporting abuse to the police will lead to their data being shared with immigration enforcement – leaving them trapped in dangerous homes, reports Sian Norris
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How The Great Replacement Went Mainstream
The far-right conspiracy theory has jumped off the dark web message boards and into political parties around Europe
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Government’s Refusal to Provide Care to Every Child Looked After by the State Shames Britain
Ministers have failed to see that an absence of care and nurturing lies at the heart of harms to children, says Carolyne Willow
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“Performative Cruelty”: Asylum Accommodation Conditions Exposed in Shocking Report
Vulnerable people are still being kept in cold, cramped, makeshift facilities, Sascha Lavin reports
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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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Cash-Strapped Councils and a Crisis in Children’s Care
A perfect storm of rising need, austerity and funding cuts has created a crisis in children’s social care, Sian Norris reports
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Periods, Pandemic and PPE: How Even in Healthcare the World is Built for Men
Women make up the majority of the world’s healthcare workers but new research shows how during the pandemic their health was put at risk by PPE designed for men
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‘Terrifying’ – Johnson’s Government ‘Following Far-Right Playbook’ on Crushing Dissent
Labour peer and former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti told Byline Times that new amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill are designed to frame people peacefully demonstrating as terrorists
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Reason Not the Need: The ‘Down Syndrome Bill’ is a Retrograde Step
Ramandeep Kaur and Stephen Unwin fear new legislation will divide their children based on an old discredited medical model which pathologises disablity
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Recognise Disabled People’s Rights Instead of Turning them into Charity Cases
Penny Pepper explains why well-meaning but pity-inducing fundraisers do not lead to structural change for marginalised people
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New Clauses in the Policing Bill Expose Johnson’s Faux Libertarianism
Johnson is sold to voters as a libertarian full of bonhomie – but his Government is suppressing freedom of speech and movement
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Lessons Still Not Learnt From the Windrush Scandal
Four years on, only 5% of victims have received compensation, a training programme is still not up and running , while the promised returning resident visas are being denied
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‘It is Dangerous for Us to Remain in Afghanistan’
Sian Norris speaks with an Afghan women’s rights activist in hiding, as she asks: will the Government come to her and others’ aid?
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Jobs for the Boys: Women MPs Earn Less Than Half as Male Colleagues from Second Jobs
Analysis from the Byline Intelligence Team reveals a large gender pay gap when it comes to secondary incomes in Parliament
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Only Nine Convictions for Facilitators of Small Boat Trafficking in 2021 – Despite Priti Patel’s Rhetoric
New figures contradict the Home Secretary’s promise to clamp down on people smuggling, reports Sam Bright
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Tragedy in the Channel: Delays to Resettlement Scheme Puts Lives at Risk
The delays to launching the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme risks more families making dangerous journeys to the UK – or fall victim to Taliban threats
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Girl Stranded in Afghanistan Exposes Failure of Flagship Resettlement Scheme
A runaway child bride whose sister is a British citizen is one of countless Afghans stranded in hiding, with the ‘safe and legal routes’ promised by UK Government yet to materialise
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Britain’s Real Migrant Crisis
Is the United Kingdom facing a refugee, population or migration crisis? Andrew Levi takes a look at the facts, and concludes the real crisis is in the leadership of the country
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Mexican Bid to Extradite Former First Lady of Veracruz from UK Begins
Elizabeth Mistry and Patrick Timmons provide the background on a new attempt to expose corruption and human rights abuses in Mexico
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Toxic Banter on Military Forum Over Kenyan Woman’s Death Exposes Gross Misogyny in Armed Forces
An investigation into posts made in wake of the murder of a Kenyan sex worker Agnes Wanjiru include discussions of how the army will brush the death ‘under the carpet’
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Authoritarian Influence? 75% of Russell Group Universities Hold Agreements with State-Linked Chinese Tech Firms
Are partnerships between the UK’s leading higher education institutions and Chinese companies suggestive of a new intellectual ‘Belt and Road’ strategy from Beijing? Max Colbert and The Citizens report
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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 Death of a Polish Woman Demonstrates the Dangers of Abortion Bans
The death of a 30-year-old woman through septic shock after being refused an abortion highlights the medical dangers of abortion bans
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At the Crossroads of Freedom
Sian Norris speaks to Professor Lea Ypi and reflects on the threats to freedom and democracy hanging over Europe – and their historical roots
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Autumn Budget: Women and Children First?
While there were welcome announcements on family spending and low pay, the Autumn Budget fails to rollback the inequality caused by 11 years of Conservative austerity
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Empty Shelves and Driver Shortages are Important – But So are the Disabled People Left Without Carers
The effect on the lives of disabled people of care workers reluctant to come from abroad, and a shortfall of those joining the profession in the UK, is being unsurprisingly ignored, says Penny Pepper
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The Right is Using Gender Critical Feminists as ‘Human Shields’ Over Trans Issue
Footage from a fringe meeting at Conservative Party Conference raises questions about the right’s relationship with radical feminists over the fight for trans rights
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Slovakia’s Latest Abortion Battle Linked to International Anti-Gender Networks
Abortion is under threat in the Central European country – with the latest attack forming part of a global backlash against reproductive and sexual rights from the right
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How the UN is Held Hostage by Power and Money
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey explores the forces manipulating and undermining the objectives of the United Nations
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Public Service, Private Interests: What Is Behind The Government’s Care Review?
Disposable, dispersible, profit-making – fears for the future of the children’s social care sector mount around the forthcoming Care Review
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Human Rights Hypocrisy: Government Approves Sniper Licenses to Countries on its Own List of Concern
New data reveals how sniper licences have been awarded to Bahrain, Bangladesh and other regimes listed on the Foreign Office’s ‘human rights priority countries’ list
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Genomic Marketing of COVID Testing Company Without People’s Affirmative Consent
Privacy International has warned of a potentially ‘serious breach’ of privacy regulations by a firm that has been awarded £169.4 million in Government contracts
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Antisemitism and Misogyny in the Far-Right: A Toxic Combination
A new report reveals the overlap between antisemitism and misogyny in the far-right – a hatred with a long and ugly history
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Boris Johnson Betrays a Common Misunderstanding of Misogyny
Making hateful behaviour directed at women because of their sex a hate crime does not mean adding cat-calls to the statute books, says Sian Norris
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‘An Institutional Problem’: Four Years on from MeToo, 40% of Women Endure Workplace Sexual Harassment
The 2017 #MeToo revelations of men abusing their power to harass and intimidate female colleagues were meant to herald change – but, in 2021, too many women still face sexual harassment at work while court delays risk denying them justice
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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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Reports of Police Domestic Abuse Increase by 49% During Pandemic
Data from a Freedom of Information request shows that incidents of domestic abuse where a police officer was the alleged perpetrator dramatically increased between April 2020 and March 2021
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114 Women Died in the Past Decade in Domestic-Related Incidents Following Previous Contact with Police
Data from the Independent Office of Police Conduct raises questions about the safeguarding of women known to be experiencing violence by partners
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The Rejection of Disabled Creativity – Enough Is Enough
Penny Pepper explores the failure of the diversity and inclusion trope for disabled people with a variety of stories to tell
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Can Women Be Safe in Britain when the Police Fail to Hold their Own to Account?
It’s been a bad week for violence against women, with a young woman killed on London’s streets and an exclusive report of how police found guilty of sexual misconduct keep their jobs – even when that job exposes them to victims of sexual violence
