Tag: Women's Rights

August 2022 Newsletter Newsletter

Runnymede Trust Report on Racism against Women at Work: Broken Ladders

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This report, written in collaboration with the Fawcett Society, found that three-quarters of women of colour experience racism at work. It is the norm that they are forced to endure harmful, pervasive and entrenched racism at every stage of their career journey. As a result, many ‘change themselves’ to fit in: they change their language, their…
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July 2022 Newsletter Newsletter

Amnesty Talk – Women and Girls in Afghanistan

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Nigina Istanakzai-Zarifi presented a powerful, passionate and moving statement of the situation now faced by Afghan women and girls, and of the failure of the international community to address it. She said that from the moment the Taliban entered Kabul, life for women and girls changed and, of course, it is worse in the provinces…
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