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In the UK:

Approximately 100,000 women are raped each year, and just 6% of reported rapes end in a conviction.

Men outnumber women in parliament 4 to 1, and just 4 of the 23 cabinet members are women.

Women working full-time earn 16% less than men, and two-thirds of low paid workers are women.

Source: UK Feminista http://ukfeminista.org.uk/about/

In Hastings:

Over the last 10 years there have been rapid change in population in Hastings and St Leonards, this contributed to establishing wide range of new cultural programmes bringing people together from different backgrounds: For example, the International Food Festival, the Eat Global, which was launched in March 2012, celebration of the Chinese New Year, International Mother Tongue Language Day, International Women’s Day, Festival of Cultures and Faiths, Eat Global festival, Garden Full of Delights, Universal Children’s Day, HIO Football Tournament, Refugee Week, Black History Month, St Leonards Festival, and Hastings Got Culture.

5 Mother Tongue schools have been established since last 5 years:

Arabic

Polish

Russian Rainbow

Bangladeshi

Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)

Hastings has become one of most diverse towns in the South East Coast with 56 different languages spoken in Hastings and St Leonards, a wide range of vibrant voluntary community groups from BME backgrounds.

There been some change in religious diversity too:

2001- Christian 57K; Buddhist 274; Hindu 226; Muslim 635; No Religion 18K

2012 -Christian 46K; Buddhist 475; Hindu 423; Muslim 1159; No Religion 33K

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    Women’s Voice programme offers space for young women to discuss and challenge sexism

    Women’s Voice has received funding from Comic Relief to run various activities for women aged 16-26. The events aim to empower young women and provide spaces for them to discuss and challenge sexism. The first event, finding power through self-portrait,…

    By shiser1 July 4, 2021
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    Heart of Women’s Voices

    The Heart of Women’s Voices project aims to mark International Women’s Day on the 8th March and, like our This Is Not Love Project, is focusing on raising awareness of domestic violence against women, which has surged during lockdown. We…

    By shiser1 March 2, 2021
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    White Ribbon Day

    Today 25 November is White Ribbon Day, when we pledge to highlight, oppose and refuse to collude in violence against women. Hastings Borough Council has released a statement: Council unites against domestic violence  On Wednesday (25 November), the world marks…

    By shiser1 November 25, 2020
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    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain

    The first Women’s Liberation Movement conference was held in Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970. Women at that conference made four demands: equal pay for equal work; free childcare; free abortion and contraception on demand; and equal education and job opportunities.…

    By shiser1 September 12, 2020
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    50 YEARS – and still waiting

    This year marks 50 years since the first national Women’s Liberation Movement conference took place, at Ruskin College, Oxford. The conference drew up four basic demands: equal pay for equal work; equal education opportunities; free contraception and abortion on demand,…

    By shiser1 August 14, 2020

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