What do women need from the Labour manifesto?

What do Women Need from the Labour Manifesto?

The meeting will have a broad scope and introduce topics and viewpoints which may not be covered elsewhere during Labour conference, such as the Nordic Model, the push for commercial surrogacy, the need to name women in maternity and childcare policies, the conflict of rights between self ID and the single-sex exceptions, arguments against making misogyny a hate crime, how gender ideology's redefinition of sexual orientation erases Lesbians and the ever present threat to abortion rights....

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Labour Women’s Declaration supports the Labour Party’s manifesto commitment to women’s sex-based rights as set out in the Equality Act 2010. Thousands of members have agreed with us and signed our Declaration.

Chair: Tonia Antoniazzi MP

Speakers panel includes:

Dame Diana Johnson MP - Why we should adopt the Nordic model to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women

Marsha De Cordova MP - Why women's sex-based rights are important in relation to the protected characteristics of disability, religion and belief.

Labour councillor - The fear that women like me feel about speaking publicly about sex and gender issues

Cllr Nina Killen - Maternity services, childcare and the naming of women and girls in policy

Dr Judith Green - Woman's Place UK - Self-ID and the single-sex exceptions

Paula Boulton - Lesbian Labour - The battle for lesbian only space

Karen Ingala Smith - co founder, Femicide Census - Defending women's spaces (and being refused Labour Party membership)

Joan Smith - Why making misogyny a hate crime won't help women

Q and A

Reception 8pm - 9pm - an opportunity to chat with other attendees and panel members

After drinks – during the event, we will announce a venue for drinks and socialising afterwards.

The venue will be notified to attendees by email on the day - close to Conference Centre, wheelchair accessible. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs: [email protected]

Please note - this event will probably sell out, you are unlikely to be able to buy a ticket on the day. Waiting lists will be in operation.

Volunteer stewards and our strongest supporters are invited to apply for the free supporters/stewards tickets, and to view and participate in the event in a nearby room via a live video link, joining the main room for the reception afterwards. This should help free up as many tickets as possible in the Main Hall for first time attendees at one of our meetings.

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* Co hosted with Labour Peers and MPs including Dianne Hayter, Estelle Morris, Rosie Duffield, Tonia Antoniazzi, Philip Hunt, Tony Young and David Triesman.

(Image with thanks to Sofia Luna.)

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