Some anonymous soul has arranged for me to rceive a free subscription to Evangelical Times http://www.evangelical-times.org/ Thank you for your kindness. Please don’t be shy, if you let me know who you are I will return the compliment by subscribing you to my email bulletin if you do not get it already. Just email me [...]
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I have not got the titled T-shirt but now the reaction of right-wing Christian evangelical groups means I could not buy it if I wanted to from over 100 shops. This is simply wrong. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/cuttingedge-clothes-chain-faces-a-boycott-and-all-because-of-one-little-progay-tshirt-1206392.html
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I have been enjoying the New Humanist magazine’s seasonal podcasts with Eddie Izzard, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Fry and more to come have a listen… http://newhumanist.org.uk/1924
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Today I co-signed a letter in support of my fellow female activist Leyla Zana. Leyla was the first Kurdish woman to win a seat in the Turkish Parliament but in 1994 she was imprisoned by the Turkish authorities for speaking Kurdish in the Parliament. The European Parliament recognised that Leyla was a prisoner of conscience [...]
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I have just voted in favour of ending the UK opt-out from the Working Time Directive. Since the Working Time Directive improves the balance between work and home life, thereby helping women, as Labour’s European Spokesperson on Women, I felt I really had to vote against the British opt out. This opt-out allowed workers to [...]
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With Tassos and Cypriots in Brussels It is with great sadness that I report the untimely death of Tassos Papadopoulos, the former President of the Republic of Cyprus. Tassos passed away on Friday 12th December, having been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Nicosia General Hospital on November 22nd, suffering from lung cancer. [...]
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Recently I co-signed a letter with my colleagues in the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee to the Albanian Parliament. We congratulated the Parliament for passing a new Gender Equality Law which included gender quotas of 30% for women. We wrote at the request of women’s organisations in Albania and asked the Parliament to maintain [...]
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Following my complaint to the Irish Advertising Standards Authority, I have received a preliminary response from them. I find it rather shocking. First they state that they are prepared to investigate complaints about commercial advertisements which have appeared in one of the advertising media that may be in breach of their Code. They then said [...]
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Recently I wrote an article in Tribune on the persistence of the gender pay gap. I worked with the Office of National Statistics to produce data on the gender pay gap in the London boroughs. You can find this data here: http://www.maryhoneyball.net/pay-gap-work-areas.xlshttp://www.maryhoneyball.net/pay-gap-home-areas.xls The first table shows the pay gap in a place of work, the [...]
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