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The UK’s Women Against Rape (WAR) collective are The UK’s Women Against Rape (WAR) collective are protesting outside the court hearing of former Metropolitan police officer David Carrick, who is being sentenced for the rape and torture of multiple women this week. 

For almost two decades Carrick kidnapped, abused and raped multiple women, using his job as an armed police officer to gain their trust, before abusing them in the most horrifying ways possible by deploying degradation tactics, control, physical violence and in some cases drugging women before raping them. 

As the government has been steadily increasing police powers, WAR is calling for reform within the police force and greater accountability for the corruption that has allowed officers like Carrick to assault women with impunity over many years.

In an open letter to commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, WAR wrote: “For the Home Office to hand even more draconian powers to an institutionally violent, biased, corrupt police will scupper any attempt to clean up the force, encouraging power hungry bullies to join while silencing officers who want to uphold higher standards.”

“If the stated commitment that the police will clean up their act means anything, forces must refuse the political powers over the public which the government is offering them. Recruitment, promotion, supervision, leadership must focus on stopping the violence that affects women every day and the racism and other hate crimes against our communities.”

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Sexism has reached “alarming levels” in France Sexism has reached “alarming levels” in France according to a new report by France’s High Council for Equality (HCE).

Gender stereotypes, everyday sexism and new forms of harassment such as online violence, verbal abuse on social media, and pornography featuring “barbaric” content are commonplace, along with a rising male backlash against women across French society.

In response the HCE has published a ten-point action plan to tackle sexism in all its forms. The practical recommendations it suggests have already been tried in some countries, suggesting that this could be used as a blueprint for other regions around the world to advance women's rights.

Here are HCE's recommendations:

1. Increase resources to tackle domestic violence

2. Ensure sex education is taught in schools

3. Regulate online content

4. Make training that tackles sexism mandatory in the workplace

5. Make public funding conditional on gender equality efforts

6. Create a public, independent authority to root out sexist violence in politics

7. Encourage media organisations to improve women’s representation

8. Address women’s underrepresentation in textbooks

9. Ban gendered adverts for toys

10. Raise awareness of sexism in society

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Amnesty International is calling for the release o Amnesty International is calling for the release of women in Yemen who have completed their prison sentences but remain detained because they don’t have a male guardian to be discharged to.

The condition of releasing women from prison based on the approval of a male guardian is a customary practice in Yemen, and has no legal basis.

“Male guardianship is a tool of social control over women’s lives and freedoms and must not be legitimised through such practices,” said Grazia Careccia, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. 

“Authorities must work on eliminating discrimination against women by ending male guardianship in law and practice, even when this requires challenging existing social norms.”

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Sierra Leone has passed a landmark law to encourag Sierra Leone has passed a landmark law to encourage women’s participation in the workplace and in politics.

Under the new Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Act (GEWE), 30% of public and private jobs must be reserved for women. It also assures 14-weeks of paid maternity leave, equal pay and equal access to bank credit.

“For so long, we have not been fair to you. On behalf of the men folk of this country, I want to apologise,” President Julius Maada Bio said in a speech last week. “We must do all it takes to facilitate the timely, full, and unconditional inclusion of women in our national life, governance, and development.”

The new legislation is part of the government’s efforts to advance women’s rights in the country. According to the UN’s 2020 Gender Development Index, Sierra Leone has one of the lowest levels of gender equality in the world, ranking 182nd out of 189 countries.

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