17 December 2021
This week the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Wales met with other trade unions in Wales to share, discuss and vote on the recent results of their individual member consultations on the enhanced offer from Welsh Government. The majority of ...
08 December 2021
I was made aware of the concepts of shame, purity and “honour” from a very young age. All of which shaped my life and my experiences. I grew up in Iran for the first part of my childhood, before coming with my family to live in the UK.
07 December 2021
As the Met Police’s operational lead for female genital mutilation (FGM) and other Harmful Practices. I’ve been in this role since 2015 and a police officer for over 25 years. The benefit of having both a fair bit of service as well as experience ...
06 December 2021
My midwifery career began more than 21 years ago when I started working clinically as a staff midwife at a large hospital in the East of England. That hospital is now an even larger teaching hospital with a tertiary level NICU, a busy and demanding ...
05 December 2021
My journey to becoming an activist was an unusual one. Integrate UK started about the time I went to secondary school and my English teacher at the time was one of the co-founders of the charity. In school, I heard about FGM, which I knew so little ...
02 December 2021
Polygamy is not something we see an awful lot of in Britain. The vast majority of the population marries just one person at a time. When we hear of people marrying more than once without getting divorced, its newsworthy because it’s rare … and illegal! ...
01 December 2021
When we think of a forced marriage, we often visualise a fragile female, chained and dragged behind a much older man towards the altar. Whilst this may be a helpful visualisation of the force, coercion and control involved, the reality that so ...
29 November 2021
Pregnancy is a time of heightened vulnerability to domestic abuse, not because it is necessarily more prevalent, but because it may start or become more severe antenatally.
26 November 2021
16 Days of Activism is an international campaign and yearly event, coordinated by the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership, which runs from 25 November until 10 December, culminating in International Human Rights Day. The 16 Days of Activism ...