Tag: Unite

Call to action: UNiTE to end digital violence against all women and girls

Stuart Mitchell

Discrimination against women and girls, and violence as its gravest manifestation, remains alarmingly high in every sphere of their lives, across physical and digital spaces alike. Each year, 245 million women and girls aged 15 and older experience physical and/or sexual violence perpetrated by a current or former intimate partner. This crisis persists, despite decades of progress in global commitments, the adoption of laws, expanded services, and scaled-up prevention efforts. Together, a growing global backlash and the misuse of rapidly evolving digital technologies are amplifying violence against women and girls. Studies…

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Rolls-Royce ‘leads the way’ with global backing for Unite’s period dignity campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Britain and Ireland’s largest union, Unite praised Rolls-Royce for ‘leading the way’ after the engineering giant gave its backing to the union’s period dignity campaign by agreeing to provide sanitary products at no cost in toilets across its operations in 50 countries around the globe. Rolls-Royce, which is headquartered in the UK, is the first multi-national company to make such a commitment. The global commitment comes after bosses at the Rolls-Royce plant in Washington, Tyne and Wear signed up locally to the campaign and then supported Unite representatives in raising…

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