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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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