Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, WEN Wales has written to Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to request that the UK Government ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). Click here to download your copy of the letter […]
Read MoreFor the 2014 WEN Wales Annual Lecture, we invited Beatrix Campbell, Pragna Patel and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett to share their experiences and thoughts on Fourth Wave feminism and the current status of women in the UK. WEN Wales are to be congratulated for putting together such an inspiring panel for their annual lecture on 27 […]
Read MoreSo, we want to achieve gender parity in local and national elections, and public life more widely, by 2020. It’s 6 years away, should be easy, yes? Hmm, maybe not. In 1997 the Westminster General election saw more women elected than in all the previous parliaments combined. The ratio has got worse since. In Wales […]
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