This month WEN Wales held our latest WEN Café online event on the theme of women’s caring responsibilities during the Covid-19 crisis. We were joined by two panellists – Carina White from Dope Black Mums, and equal parenting campaigner Sarah Rees. Women have taken on more caring responsibilities in the home since this crisis has […]
Today marks the seventh annual World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This day was earmarked by the UN in 2014, with the intention of placing a spotlight on the nature of human trafficking, as well as acknowledging its victims and the protection of their rights. What is ‘modern slavery’? Human trafficking – often also referred […]
Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of migrant families have found themselves struggling to make ends meet, thrusting the UK Government’s No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) rule into the spotlight. Although NRPF is failing to provide a safety net to families facing job and income losses caused by Coronavirus, the negative impacts of the policy […]
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.” Adrienne Rich As someone who has experienced burn-out and trauma as a result of my twenty years of work on women’s rights issues in both domestic and international contexts, I have had to learn the hard […]