The Scottish Government has published a draft Bill reforming the process for obtaining legal gender recognition. Written by National Newsdesk, The National The draft Bill – which is now open for consultation – aims to remove barriers currently in place for an individual to secure the legal recognition of their gender identity. Included in the…
Sisters For Change is launching a series of reports on behalf of the Equality & Justice Alliance. This report commissioned by Sisters For Change and authored by Peter Dunne and Stephen Clark provides a comparative legal review of gender recognition laws across the Commonwealth. The entitlement to legal gender recognition is an accepted norm of…
Sisters For Change is launching a series of reports on behalf of the Equality & Justice Alliance. This report commissioned by Sisters For Change and authored by Marion Bethel analyses the criminalisation of marital rape and intimate partner sexual violence across the Commonwealth. Marital rape and intimate partner sexual violence constitute acts of gender-based violence…
Sisters For Change is launching a series of reports on behalf of the Equality & Justice Alliance. This report commissioned by Sisters For Change and authored by Prof. Aileen McColgan analyses international and regional anti-discrimination and equality standards relating to sex/gender, sexual orientation and gender identity and presents models of good practice of constitutional equality…
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Sisters For Change is launching a series of reports on behalf of the Equality & Justice Alliance. This report commissioned by Sisters For Change and authored by Musawah provides a comprehensive legal review of Muslim family laws across Commonwealth Asia and Africa, analysing the nature and extent to which they discriminate against…
Over the last 12 months, Sisters For Change, in partnership with The Manchester Maya Project, a consortium of specialist BME VAW service providers, has conducted extensive research to examine local authority approaches and responses to domestic abuse; commissioning and funding of domestic abuse services across Greater Manchester. Working directly with three specialist BME VAW support…
The report highlights the shocking findings of the biggest in-depth survey ever conducted in Indonesia to measure workplace exploitation and the prevalence of harassment, abuse and sexual violence experienced by women domestic workers in employers’ homes. The survey was designed by Sisters For Change and carried out by JALA-PRT union leaders and members across Greater…
This report evidences the high levels of sexual harassment, violence and abuse suffered by women garment workers in Bangalore. It highlights the failure of corporate compliance with domestic law and the lack of government monitoring of internal grievance procedures and complaints. in partnership with Munnade Download
This report was produced by Sisters For Change (SFC), the National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ) and Dalit Sthree Sakthi (DSS), three independent NGOs that use law as a tool for social change and as a means to hold state authorities to account. Though in-depth legal case evidence and analysis of hundreds of cases of…
Sisters For Change launched its 2017 report, Unequal Regard, Unequal Protection: Public authority responses to violence against Black and Minority Ethnic women in England at the House of Lords in London. The report, assessing six local authority areas across England, was produced in collaboration with five BME Violence Against Women (VAW) service providers. It presents…
