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By Bethany Rielly
EXISTING inequalities and discrimination has been magnified by the Covid-19 crisis with women workers bearing the brunt of the pandemic, trade unionists heard today.
Women workers are “first in line” for redundancies and “last in line to receive decent sick pay,” TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady declared during her opening speech at the TUC Women’s Conference today.
The three-day conference is taking place for the first time online, with hundreds of trade unionists tuning in remotely across the country.
In the opening session, delegates heard how the pandemic has exacerbated gender inequalities in the workplace, with women disproportionately hit by redundancies, wage cuts and furlough.
by Bethany Rielly
MILLIONS of Yemenis will starve to death if British aid to their country is slashed by up to 50 per cent, a former Conservative minister warned today.
Last year, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans to cut the overseas aid budget from 0.7 per cent of GDP to 0.5 per cent, which diplomats warned would translate into a 50 to 70 per cent reduction in funding for the world’s poorest nations.
Former international secretary Andrew Mitchell said today that cuts to the effect of 50 per cent to Yemen “would be very serious indeed.”
“Sir Mark Lowcock, the senior British official at the UN, has made it clear that were a cut like that to take place, four million Yemenis, mainly children, will continue the slow, agonising and obscene process of starving to death,” he told the Today programme.
by Bethany Rielly
AMENDED domestic-abuse legislation still has a “significant gap” because it fails to protect many migrant women, campaigners warned today.
They warned that domestic abuse will continue to force women with no recourse to public funds onto the streets unless the proposed Domestic Abuse Bill is extended to include them.
The government announced an amendment to the Bill that would make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence punishable by five years’ imprisonment.
The move comes after campaigners warned that perpetrators are avoiding punishment because strangulation can sometimes leave no signs of physical injury.
The amendment also aims to strengthen laws on controlling or coercive behaviour and to expand legislation targeting revenge porn: material shared without the subject’s consent in order to cause embarrassment or distress.
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