4 h. ago Trump’s cuts to contraception will kill ‘tens of thousands’ of women

More than 8,000 women and girls are believed to have died from complications during pregnancy or birth in the first 90 days of the president’s aid freeze

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25 h. ago Transgender players are banned from women's and girls' cricket in England and Wales 'with immediate effect' after Supreme Court ruling

Transgender women have been blocked from taking part in all levels of women's cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board has declared. 

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26 h. ago Transgender women banned from women's cricket in England and Wales

Transgender women are to be banned outright from women’s and girls’ cricket in England and Wales

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26 h. ago Transgender women are banned from women's and girl's cricket in England and Wales 'with immediate effect' after Supreme Court ruling

Transgender women have been blocked from taking part in all levels of women's cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board has declared. 

Events

26 h. ago Transgender women are banned from women's and girl's cricket 'with immediate effect' after Supreme Court ruling

Transgender women have been blocked from taking part in all levels of women's cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board has declared. 

Events

27 h. ago ECB ban transgender women from competing in women's cricket with immediate effect

Change in policy approved at a board meeting following last month’s UK Supreme Court ruling

Politics

27 h. ago ECB bans transgender women from taking part in women’s and girl’s cricket

Trans women had been free to play up to tier three of domestic cricket and throughout the recreational game.

Politics

48 h. ago Hackney Council accused of ‘endangering women and girls’ with plans to scrap single

Campaigners have urged the local authority to keep the Clapton leisure centre’s women-only changing spaces as part of its redevelopment

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3 d. ago Britain's girl gang problem: Increasing numbers of young women are committing violent crime, warn experts

Experts say there has been a surge in the number of girls and young women taking part in violence - after a series of high-profile incidents and emergency service alerts.

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4 d. ago Violence against women and girls 'endemic' in London with boys in thrall to figures like Andrew Tate whose influence is like 'terrorism', report warns

Violence against girls is 'endemic' in London as boys are in thrall to figures like Andrew Tate whose influence is like 'terrorism', a report has warned.

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4 d. ago Call for action to prevent 'endemic' misogyny affecting young Londoners

London Assembly warns ‘much more’ needs to be done to stop violence against women and girls ‘spiralling out of control’

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4 d. ago This Welsh woman is now responsible for protecting women and girls from violence

'We recognise this is a national emergency. It's not just one part of society and it's not just for victims to protect themselves. We need to hold men and boys accountable for their behaviour'

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4 d. ago This Welsh woman is responsible for protecting women and girls from violence

'We recognise this is a national emergency. It's not just one part of society and it's not just for victims to protect themselves. We need to hold men and boys accountable for their behaviour'

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8 d. ago His sick crimes were hidden until brave victims came forward one by one

For 10 years Simon Arden targeted innocent girls and women

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9 d. ago Inside the world of ‘skimpies’: the barmaids in bras who pour pints in Australia’s mining towns

Most skimpy bars have signs that say ‘no photos of the girls’ – but photographer M Ellen Burns earned the women’s trust to capture what their life is really likeGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailNot long after M Ellen Burns arrived in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, the state’s borders closed to the rest of Australia and the world for the first time in history. The photographer had been on a road trip from the Blue Mountains to visit her partner’s parents in WA when Covid-19 first began to spread; now she was well and truly stuck. She found work shooting for the town’s tourist board, but a chance meeting with a local barmaid introduced her to the other jewels in Kalgoorlie’s crown: skimpy bars.Burns photographed several skimpies at work between 2021 and 2023 with their full consent Continue reading...

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1 week ago Terrifying interactive map shows England and Wales' stalking hotspots

Younger people, particularly younger women and girls, are more likely to victims of stalking in the UK - with one area topping the list for the most number of offences

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1 week ago Is Kai Trump the next Alex Cooper? President’s granddaughter turns to interviews as her social media profiles rises

Kai’s popular content could nudge more young women and girls towards the MAGA movement, and the GOP more broadly

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1 week ago French minister reports #SkinnyTok to regulator over anorexia concerns

Digital media minister Clara Chappaz says TikTok videos promoting extreme thinness ‘revolting and unacceptable’The French government is seeking to take action against a TikTok group promoting extreme thinness among young women and girls.France’s minister for digital media, Clara Chappaz, has reported #SkinnyTok to the country’s audiovisual and digital watchdog and the EU over concerns that the trend is body-shaming victims into anorexia and that algorithms are targeting the most vulnerable. Continue reading...

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1 week ago With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik

A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazyThere are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless – cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. And some is a sort of pornified display of women just simply being, like a virtual girlfriend you cannot truly interact with. The range and scale of the content is staggering, and infiltrates everything from social media timelines to messages circulated on WhatsApp. The result is not just a blurring of reality, but a distortion of it.A new genre of AI slop is rightwing political fantasy. There are entire YouTube videos of made-up scenarios in which Trump officials prevail against liberal forces....

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2 w. ago The strangers who saved women: Highland farmer, NHS worker and former financial adviser teamed up for historic Supreme Court action

Eight years ago they had never met and only knew they shared the same desire: to protect the rights of women and girls.

Economics