Male offenders in the UK are being discriminated against on the grounds of their gender according to the backbench MP Phil Davies.
Speaking in a debate of female offenders in parliament this week Mr Davies said:
“There appears to be sex discrimination in the sentencing of offenders, but the people being discriminated against are men not women. Women cannot have it both ways. They cannot expect to be treated equally in everything in society except when it comes to being sentenced by the courts for the crimes that they commit.
“People may want to argue that it is reasonable for women to be given lighter sentences than men, and that it is right that fewer women are sent to prison than men. That is an argument for another day, but at least when we have these debates about sentencing for men and women let us stick to the facts as…
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The head of the UK’s leading men’s health organisations – Peter Baker, CEO of the The Men’s Health Forum (MHF) – has called for a full public debate on the issue of unnecessary male circumcision in the UK. The call was made after the case of a baby boy in Oldham bled to death following a circumcision was brought to Mr Baker’s attention by The Men’s Network.
MHF CEO Peter Baker has called for a full public debate. He said: ‘Male circumcision is often viewed as an anodyne procedure – in stark contrast to the barbarity of female circumcision – but it is actually a potentially highly dangerous practice about which we need a full public debate sooner rather than later. We cannot shy away from this any longer.’
Glen Poole, Strategic Director of The Men’s Network will now be facilitating a one day mini conference – How To Prevent Unnecessary Male…
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A UK midwife has been charged with manslaughter after a baby bled to death following a circumcision.
According to online reports from The Oldham Chronicle Grace Adeleye (66) was charged on Friday with the manslaughter of Goodluck Caubergs by gross negligence. The court heard the incident happened in Oldham on April 17 2010.
In the UK it is still legal to subject baby boys to the type of genital surgery that we would consider barbaric if it was performed on baby girls in the developing world. To get a better understanding of the relative severity of the different types of unnecessary genital surgery performed on girls and boys see this 5 minute YouTube clip.
Subjecting a girl living in Britain to unnecessary genital surgery – either at home or abroad – is illegal. Yet performing unnecessary genital surgery on boys is classed as a ‘consensual assault’ – just like…
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Love is often viewed as an incidental to life once adulthood kicks in, something we don’t really need to survive, a luxury, a whim but in a world where love is more than just an aspiration, is this wise?
It may well be that what we call love is nothing more than a series of chemical reactions but they are reactions which make the world a special place and a world that understands the power of love is a world in which survival actually acquires meaning. And whether that meaning holds the secret to life really doesn’t matter – what matters is that affection is a conduit for the best the human condition has to offer.
So it dawned on us whilst we were reading the tweets from a foster carers agency, called Foster Care Agent, that one of the big problems in the family sector and the…
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Imagine the scenario: a mother giving birth in hospital while the father of their child speeds across town on his motorbike to see their first child enter the world. But in his excitement he loses control of his bike and is fatally wounded. The midwives are informed and draw straws on who will tell mum the good news – that her baby is healthy – the bad news that the baby’s father is dead – and the even worse news that:
BECAUSE THE DAD IS DEAD, MUM IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE A POTENTIAL THREAT TO HER CHILD, IS NOT LEGALLY A MOTHER AND CANNOT TAKE HER BABY HOME WITH HER!
Can you imagine this happening to a parent in the UK in 2012? You can’t? Well it does.
It happened in the past month to a parent in Wales whose partner died shortly after the birth of their child…
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A new report on male victims of sexual violence has called for a national strategy to deal with violence against men and boys.
The report, produced by Mankind UK’s CEO, Martyn Sullivan, with funding from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust recommends that the UK government produce a “partner document to the existing Violence Against Women and Girls strategy to highlight the plight of male victims within the UK.
Martyn came to the conclusion after traveling to Australia, the US and Canada to explore how other countries are dealing male victims of rape and childhood sexual abuse.
The report confirms that an around 1 in 6 men in the UK have been raped or sexually abused and suggests anecdotally that around 30% of men accessing services in Sussex to deal with incidents from their childhood, were abused by women.
The main recommendation of this report is that the existing specialist male…
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I gave a talk to students at the London School of Economics (LSE) called A New Gender Agenda this week as one of 18 speakers invited to take part in a day of “inspiring talks to promote the development of tomorrow’s thinkers and leaders”.
The aim of the TEDxLSE event was to support a generation of innovation, critical thinking and leadership in order to promote meaningful change in the world.
This post captures some the key points covered in the talk.
I wanted to give the audience an understanding of why equality work is important and invite them to take a new view of gender equality. It’s not that usual for men to talk about gender equality and those who do tend to come from a place of either pro-feminism or anti-feminism.
The ‘isms’ I prefer are optimism and activism.
I am an optimist because I believe we can create a world…
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- In Burundi where fewer men work, fewer boys go to primary school and women live longer
- In Estonia where around 70% of graduates and professional/technical workers are women
- In Jamaica where women are twice as likely to go to university and nearly 50% more likely to be legislators, senior officials, and managers
- In Russia where men die 12 years sooner than women on average
- In Qatar where women are more that 6 times more likely to go to university
In all of these categories men are not categorized as being unequal, women are categorized as being MORE EQUAL and while the authors of the index claim to be ranking countries’ by their “proximity to gender equality” countries lose ranking points when women are unequal but don’t lose ranking points when men are unequal.
Once you realize that…
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