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"Although there are many women in the trade unions, women’s rights and women’s voices seem to be less of a priority than they were in earlier times. The unions do not seem to be as concerned with defending women’s sex-based rights as they should be." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour…?

Concerns about Brighton's WellBN GP surgery were first raised with the NHS in 2020 and the GMC in 2021. Today, in 2026, an independent investigation delivered its highly critical verdict. Gender-distressed children have been failed by the NHS again 👇newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

As #Cardiff was one of the cities included, great coverage of our strip club research in @HeraldWales @ToniaAntoniazzi ‘Local women also described a disproportionate number of single mothers working in Cardiff’s strip clubs, linking this to financial hardship and limited alternatives.’ herald.wales/south-wales/ca…

Read the full report on on research page, which also has a summary: 🔗 filia.org.uk/strip-clubs-re… #WomensVoices #TimesUp

Thank you to @glosswitch for writing such a fantastic piece for @TheCriticMag about our research: Life near Strip Clubs & #NoMoreStripClubs campaign. She powerfully captures the cognitive dissonance we feel in a society that claims to want to tackle #VAWG, yet continues to licence these exploitation venues. thecritic.co.uk/stop-selling-s…

"We could've been in a better place now if we had been able to have that dialogue 10 years ago." Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, @EHRC Chair, responds to @RosieDuffield1's Question - "What should service providers being doing to support women better?"

Sisters and friends, I'm pleased to be able to confirm that my complaint to The Telegraph has now been settled. They have published this correction to Nicole Lampert's article which admits that the context of my tweet was misrepresented and rescinds the defamatory implication

Strip clubs don't just negatively affect those who work there. They have a much wider societal impact especially when you consider 'Life Near Strip Clubs' and hear the voices of those that do. Please read this important piece of research.

As a young Edinburgh councillor in 1990s I supported the licensing of the city’s sex trade. I was wrong. There’s not place for strip clubs in our society. My column scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

Ban strip clubs: my @TheScotsman column on @FiLiA_charity research by @DrLauraFavaro on the impact of clubs on women who live or work or move in the vicinity of them. Link in replies

Excellent interview with @DrLauraFavaro on the impact of strip clubs on women's freedom of movement bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We posted last year about this research, while the fieldwork was being done. This thread is worth reposting now it's published. Please do read Dr Laura Favaro's report: Life near Strp Clubs: Women's Voices from UK Cities: filia.org.uk/strip-clubs-re… #NoMoreStripClubs #VAWG

This struck me too. Segregating girls on their period. 💯 shocking. Unclean, unclean!

'Schools in Scotland will be forced to provide single-sex lavatories after a landmark legal ruling that unisex facilities are unlawful and discriminate against girls.' About time too. 👏👏👏 thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar… thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

📢Great news! Dr Laura Favaro will be on @BBCWomansHour tomorrow, discussing her original research for #FiLiA: Life near Strip Clubs: Women's Voices from UK Cities. 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Listen from 10am on @BBCRadio4, @BBCSounds or wherever you get your podcasts.

❌ They are not ‘entertainment’. ❌ They are exploitation. ♀️ They are male violence against women and girls. 👭 We have a right to feel safe and welcome in our towns and cities. 🔗 filia.org.uk/no-more-strip-… #NoMoreStripClubs #MVAWG

#NoMoreStripClubs – a campaign for: ⛔️An end to licensing of strip clubs. ⛔️Existing venues to be closed down. ❤️‍🩹Women currently ‘working’ in strip clubs to be supported with routes to exit the industry. 🔗 filia.org.uk/no-more-strip-… #WomensVoices #LifeNearStripClubs #VAWG

Thank you @M_Star_Online for amplifying our research Life near Strip Clubs: Women’s Voices from UK Cities, by Dr Laura Favaro. Great to read the comment from the Scottish Gov't on the powers councils have to set a nil cap. Read more: filia.org.uk/strip-clubs-re… #NoMoreStripClubs

Close ‘sexist, racist and classist’ strip clubs, charity demands morningstaronline.co.uk/article/close-…

I've written the inaugural piece for my legal Substack on this week's attempt by MPs to block the @EHRC Code of Practice: EARLY WARNING | Are MPs plotting to overturn For Women Scotland and dismantle women’s and LGB people’s discrimination law rights? open.substack.com/pub/withinthel…