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Friday 26 March 2021 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities / Workers' Rights

Marsha de Cordova comments on Supreme Court ruling against Asda in workers’ equal pay case

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Tuesday 16 March 2021 Home Affairs / Jess Phillips / Women and Equalities

Labour analysis shows women made up over half the victims of all violent crime for the last 3 years

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Monday 15 March 2021 Home / Nick Thomas-Symonds / Women and Equalities

Nick Thomas-Symonds responds to Government defeat in the Lords on stalking

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Thursday 11 March 2021 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova comments on the Minister for Women and Equalities not attending the International Women’s Day debate in Parliament

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Monday 8 March 2021 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Labour reveals almost 4 in 5 of those affected by NHS pay cut are women

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Friday 26 February 2021 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to the Government’s second quarterly report on Covid disparities for Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities

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Tuesday 23 February 2021 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova comments on ONS figures showing unemployment rate for Black, Asian and ethnic minority people now more than double unemployment rate for white people

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Monday 22 February 2021 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova comments on the Government’s decision to delay gender pay gap reporting for another 6 months

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Wednesday 20 January 2021 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Labour responds to TUC report showing Black, Asian and ethnic minority employment has “plummeted” during pandemic

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Thursday 17 December 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

When Liz Truss dismisses ‘fashionable’ causes she actually dismisses the devastating impact of discrimination – Marsha de Cordova

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Tuesday 15 December 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to Govt scrapping unconscious bias training for civil service

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Thursday 10 December 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to 1 in 3 BME workers having had to self-isolate during the pandemic

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Thursday 15 October 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova comments on call by senior business leaders to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay reporting

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Thursday 24 September 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to IPPR research showing Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities most at risk of debt due to economic downturn

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Thursday 3 September 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Trade / Women and Equalities

Labour calls for Government U-turn on “completely unacceptable” appointment of Tony Abbott

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Monday 27 July 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Shocking figures show the impact of deep rooted and systematic racial injustice in the UK – Marsha de Cordova

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Friday 10 July 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova commenting on the restriction in the range of treatments beauty salons can offer upon reopening

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Friday 19 June 2020 Equalities / Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to ONS statistics on Covid-19 deaths by ethnic group

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Tuesday 16 June 2020 Coronavirus / Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to publication of PHE report on impact of Covid-19 on BAME groups

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Monday 15 June 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to announcement about commission on BAME issues

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Friday 5 June 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova comments on the news that the EHRC will lead an inquiry into the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minorities

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Thursday 4 June 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Labour calls on the government’s Race Disparity Unit to immediately publish recommendations following Public Health England’s Review into the impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community

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Monday 1 June 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Review into BAME deaths delay – Marsha de Cordova

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Thursday 21 May 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Labour demands that the Government undertake and publish equality impact assessments on its Coronavirus Recovery Strategy

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Thursday 7 May 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Immense pressure on women during Covid-19 crisis – Marsha de Cordova

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Friday 1 May 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova responds to IFS report on BAME deaths from Covid-19

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Thursday 30 April 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Marsha de Cordova reacts to PHE’s call to risk assess frontline BAME staff

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Wednesday 29 April 2020 Marsha de Cordova / Women and Equalities

Standard PPE not protecting female frontline workers – Marsha de Cordova responds

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Friday 24 April 2020 Keir Starmer / Women and Equalities

Keir Starmer appoints Doreen Lawrence as race relations adviser

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Thursday 26 March 2020 Coronavirus / Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Rise in domestic violence linked to coronavirus – Dawn Butler

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Saturday 7 December 2019 Naz Shah / Women and Equalities

Boris Johnson clearly has a real problem with women – Naz Shah

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Friday 29 November 2019 Angela Rayner / Women and Equalities

Boris Johnson is a liar and a sexist – Angela Rayner

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Thursday 28 November 2019 Shami Chakrabarti / Women and Equalities

Newly-unearthed comments further expose Boris Johnson’s contempt for women

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Wednesday 13 November 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Labour will close the gender pay gap by 2030

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Friday 8 November 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Labour launches major package of reforms to deliver a workplace revolution for women

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Thursday 7 November 2019 Angela Rayner / Women and Equalities

The fact that Boris Johnson has stood by Nick Conrad shows Tories are infected with sexism – Angela Rayner

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Thursday 7 November 2019 Angela Rayner / Women and Equalities

The Conservatives must immediately drop Nick Conrad as their candidate – Angela Rayner

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Monday 28 October 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Gender pay gap widest for people in their 50s – Dawn Butler responds

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Friday 27 September 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Desmond Swayne defends his use of blackface – Butler responds

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Saturday 21 September 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Labour announces independent review into the rise of the far-right

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Saturday 21 September 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Dawn Butler speaking at Labour Party Conference

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Friday 20 September 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Labour announces plans to break the stigma of the menopause at work

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Friday 20 September 2019 Naz Shah / Women and Equalities

Naz Shah responds to reports of Islamophobic comments from serving Conservative minister

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Tuesday 10 September 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Labour calls for Geoffrey Boycott’s knighthood to be rescinded

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Friday 6 September 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

With a Prime Minister like Boris Johnson, what hope is there for the advancement of women’s rights? – Dawn Butler

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Monday 2 September 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Boris Johnson’s bigotry shames our country – Dawn Butler

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Monday 15 July 2019 Naz Shah / Women and Equalities

Naz Shah responds to Boris Johnson essay on Islam

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Monday 8 July 2019 Dawn Butler / Women and Equalities

Dawn Butler responds to Hope Not Hate poll on Islamophobia among Tory members

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Wednesday 12 June 2019 Naz Shah / Women and Equalities

Long overdue acknowledgement of need for independent inquiry into Tory Islamophobia

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Friday 1 March 2019 LGBT / Stories / Women and Equalities

Meet some of the LGBT activists across our movement

This LGBT History Month, we spoke to some of the incredible LGBT activists and allies from across the Labour movement.

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