11 h. ago MP tells colleagues he was raped as he calls for end to stigma around victims

Labour's Josh Newbury told the Commons he woke up in his hotel room with another man after blacking out while drunk on a night out in an unfamiliar city and "felt guilty afterwards"

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57 h. ago Hospital staff failed to tell colleagues that girl, 12, had tied a ligature round her neck hours before she took her own life, inquest hears

Mia Lucas, who had been detained at a specialist children's psychiatric unit, took her own life by wrapping items around her throat on January 29 last year.

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5 d. ago Rape victims cannot suffer or be subjected to degrading ordeals in court

Sunday Mail opinion says shocking case rightly prompted calls for changes to the way rape victims are treated and since then there has been slow progress towards better protection for victims.

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1 week ago Women more likely to suffer 'fear and distress' if made to undress in front of opposite sex, academic tells tribunal brought by NHS nurses who opposed trans colleague using female changing rooms

Eight nurses are bringing a claim for sexual harassment, discrimination and victimisation under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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2 w. ago SNP MP Pete Wishart taking legal advice after Elon Musk's AI tool Grok calls him 'rape enabler'

Pete Wishart said the allegation on X was ‘shocking’

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2 w. ago Elon Musk's AI tool Grok apologises after calling SNP MP Pete Wishart a 'rape enabler'

Pete Wishart said the allegation on X was ‘shocking’

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2 w. ago How the European convention on human rights became a battleground between the centre and the right | Daniel Trilling

For 20 years, populists have been blaming the ECHR for endangering Britain by offering basic protections to immigrantsIn the latest series of Blue Lights, the BBC drama about police officers in Belfast, there’s a scene where a constable insists on staying with a mentally ill man until a nurse arrives. “This is an article two issue,” the officer tells his colleague – by which he means that under article two of the European convention on human rights (ECHR), incorporated into UK law by the 1998 Human Rights Act, the state has a duty to protect life. It is an uncontroversial example of how the ECHR, which turns 75 this week, has found its way into everyday life across the UK.In Westminster, withdrawal from the ECHR has become a new rallying cry for the right, which claims it is the solution to unauthorised migration. In early October, Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives said they want to take the UK out of the convention if they win the next election. Last week, MPs voted down a largely symb...

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2 w. ago I was left suicidal by working for the Met Police. My male colleague called a rape victim a 'slut', made racist comments and followed me home

Issy Vine, 30, (pictured) from Wimbledon , south west London, got a job at the Met Police as a call handler in 2020 but her word was turned upside down when she met Dan*.

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3 w. ago Fourth Met officer at scandal police station sacked after being filmed boasting about how he 'whacked the s*** out' of a suspect

The undercover footage shows PC Jason Sinclair-Birt tell a colleague he 'whacked the s**t out of the back of his legs' while discussing the use of force on a detainee.

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4 w. ago Bosses ‘lacked compassion’ over trans colleague concerns, nurse tells tribunal

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is responding to an employment tribunal claim brought by seven Darlington nurses.

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