How can Labour champion freedom for women and girls?
Mon 9 Oct 2023 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM BST
Venue information will be sent via email to attendees on the day, 12 minutes walk from ACC conference centre
Description
How can Labour champion freedom for women and girls?
Hear speakers and experts on the bold steps Labour should take to end oppression of women as a sex, tackle male violence, challenge expectations and pressures on girls in education and schools, protect the rights of women with disabilities and of women in sport, support women internationally, oppose the commercialisation of surrogacy, defend single-sex spaces and organise to fight for the freedom of women and girls.
Chair
Tonia Antoniazzi MP
Speakers include
Jess Philips MP (Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding)
Dr Karen Ingala-Smith (Co-founder, Femicide Census)
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (long-standing feminist and politician)
Dame Diana Johnson MP (Chair, Home Affairs Committee)
Speaker from Afghanistan
Lexi Ellingsworth (Co-founder, Stop Surrogacy Now U.K.)
Kiri Tunks (teacher and trade union activist)
Doors from 6.30pm, food available on arrival before event start at 7pm. Please join us for a social afterwards at the venue!