The Labour MP Yvette Cooper wants a full independent investigation into violence against women and girls within the police service. According to the Counting Dead Women project, run by Karen Ingala Smith, 80 women were killed between the deaths of Sarah Everard in March and Sabina Nessa on 17 September. The minister for safeguarding, Rachel Maclean, said the violence against women and girls strategy published this summer set out “the government’s ambition to increase support for survivors, bring perpetrators to justice, and, ultimately, reduce the prevalence of violence against women and girls”. Compromise is the only way forward for Democrats, who need every vote in the Senate and nearly every vote in the House. ‘Criminalise conversion’ – Human rights lawyers and experts have called for swift action to outlaw so-called conversion therapy.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2021 05:26 UTC