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Send us Fan Mail 2025 saw WRN hold our first ever Women’s festival in Derby.  Organised by local WRN members in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, it attracted a large audience from across the UK.   The Festival theme was Celebrating Grassroots Activism and we welcomed speakers and guests from England, Ireland , Scotland and Wales to give presentations on their local activities and tactics.   Mary Howd...

Send us Fan Mail When a relationship breaks down and one parent relocates a child to another country without the ongoing consent of the other parent, the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention can be invoked.  Anita Gera, co founder of Hague Explained joins the Women’s Rights Network to explain the key principles and little known pitfalls of the Convention that have resulted in an increasing number of mo...

Send us Fan Mail Julie Bindel joins WRN on Zoom to discuss defining lesbian culture. Julie is a feminist campaigner, writer, and investigative journalist. She is the host of The Lesbian Project podcast, with Kathleen Stock. She writes  for Unherd, Observer, Sunday Times, The Critic, Spectator, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Tortoise, Prospect, and more.  She is  a keen broadcaster and travels far and...

Send us Fan Mail The Women’s Rights Network Afghanistan group works to connect silenced women with volunteers in the UK to give them a voice - through mentoring, education and friendship. Since the Taliban retook control, women and girls have been forced to live under the most oppressive edicts. This summer a symbolic mass action in honour of them was held in Parliament Square, led by internationa...

Send us Fan Mail Jo Phoenix is an academic author and professor of criminology known for her gender critical views, having founded the Gender Critical Research Network at the Open University where she was a professor of criminology.  In 2024, Jo successfully sued the Open University at an employment tribunal for constructive dismissal, victimisation, harassment and direct discrimination.  Listen t...

Send us Fan Mail Following the launch of our Step Up Senedd campaign, and despite an explicit assurance from the First Minister of Wales that the Welsh government would comply with the Supreme Court’s clarification of the meaning of the words ‘woman’, ‘man’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010, no action has been taken by the Welsh government to correct scores of flawed government policies and pract...

Send us Fan Mail In the heart of the Derbyshire countryside - in the picturesque market town of Belper - there’s a bizarre story unfolding in the run-up to the annual Pride parade. First established in 2019, Pride in Belper now boasts that it's the largest Pride celebration n the county, attracting around 11,000 people.  The event committee have a strong community presence - their mantra is i...

Send us Fan Mail Stephanie Davies-Arai explains how trans ideology is harming our children in schools === Women’s Rights Network Jersey organised a series of events with Stephanie Davies-Arai BEM, founder and director of Transgender Trend, in Jersey the first week of March 2025.  Activists, both within and outside government, attempted to have the events cancelled, tried to stop participants from...

Send us Fan Mail In conversation with Magi Gibson, leading voice in Scottish poetry, author, creative writing tutor and literary events organiser.  A fascinating listen to Magi who is a feminist and a powerful voice against blacklisting and cancellation for gender critical beliefs If you enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to hear more, go to womensrights.network/wrn-podcast to listen...

Send us Fan Mail All political parties making up the Senedd in Wales were formally approached by the Women’s Rights Network in Wales to have us come and speak with them about the importance of immediately complying with the Equality Act 2010 further to legal language clarification by the UK Supreme Court on 16th April 2025. Only the Welsh Conservative party took up the offer, inviting WRN in Wales...

Send us Fan Mail Women’s Rights Network was delighted to have guest Sharron Davies to join on Zoom to explore the movement in both domestic and international sports in light of the FA decision to ban men from female football teams and World Boxing's introduction of mandatory sex testing, to determine the eligibility of male and female athletes that want to take part in its competitions.  Shar...

Send us Fan Mail Susan Smith from For Women Scotland exclusively joins the Women’s Rights Network to recount the extraordinary battle of three women determined to hold the Scottish government to account and who successfully secured a ruling from the UK Supreme Court that has sent positive shockwaves across the Western world. Susan details the outrageous antics of elected politicians in Scotland an...

Send us Fan Mail A month on from the UK Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that the legal definition of woman within equality law refers to biological sex, WRN Wales held the Welsh Senedd to account.   The #StepUpSenedd campaign was launched on the steps of the Welsh Parliament in Cardiff Bay.  Women from across Wales gathered with a clear message for politicians - no more excuses, comply with the la...

Send us Fan Mail At a visit to the magnificent Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, managed by the National Trust, a member of WRN Derbyshire and Staffordshire was dismayed to find that even the celebration of women in the medium of something as innocuous as embroidery is not safe from a woman-hating ideological infestation. Where a modern tapestry exhibition that was meant to celebrate women was spoiled...

Send us Fan Mail The Women’s Rights Network is delighted to welcome back Michael Foran to shed much needed honest sunlight on the implications of the Supreme Court ruling. Michael, a lecturer in public law at Glasgow University and an expert in equality law, strips away much of the blustering misinformation being churned out regarding the legal implications and responsibilities for service provide...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Doyle joins WRN to consider the world of identity politics and why some personalities have chosen to speak out publicly against the brutal assault on women’s rights and the diminishment of child protection, whilst so many have remained silent. With the UK making headway, thanks to the unified effort from grassroot women’s groups to famous names in sports and publishing, wha...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the series of WRN weekly zooms made available for wider listening, WRN's Elizabeth Foster invites French lawyer and feminist campaigner, Isabelle Thieuleux to talk about her experience of the French legal system in light of Giselle Pelicot and the mass rape trial which saw her husband and 50 men convicted, and sent shockwaves through France and far beyond for its l...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of WRN Sports Shorts, WRN's Faye meets Tracy Edwards MBE, who won international fame as skipper of the first all-woman crew to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989/90, and Najiba Noori, an Afghan journalist and documentarian, who recently made her feature debut with Writing Hawa .   Tracy's is an extraordinary story full of determ...

Send us Fan Mail In the latest of WRN weekly zooms made publicly available, Heather Binning talks with Dr Michael Foran, a Lecturer in Public Law at The University of Glasgow, who specialises in constitutional and discrimination law.  Beginning with how Michael "accidently" entered the sex and gender debate they discuss the complexities of law in this area, including the implications of...

Send us Fan Mail Women's Words is the WRN blog where we share our news and views. Follow the link to view this article in full and to find out more information about Nordic Model Now .  If you enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to hear more, go to womensrights.network/wrn-podcast to listen, download and subscribe to more of our episodes.   And if you’d like to join our conversat...

Send us Fan Mail Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news, together with our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week". In this first episode of 2025, the WRN Sports Team review England Hockey's new competition policy, bring us up to speed on the boycotting debate dominating the ICC Champions Trophy and discuss...

Send us Fan Mail WRN's Heather Binning talks with writer, activist and journalist, Joan Smith about her latest book, Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac which "reinterprets the bloody, violent story of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. The book pieces together the human stories, showing how they struggled for control of their lives at a tim...

Send us Fan Mail In this end of year review episode, the team take us through a year of WRN Women and Sport campaigning. From talking to dads outside cricket grounds, to taking the "mother" Save Women's Sport banner to the Paris Olympics; it's been a memorable year. Join Jane and Faye for the last Sports Shorts podcast of the year, as they announce WRN's Sports Awards 2024...

Send us Fan Mail Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news, together with our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week".  In this week's episode there are shocking revelations from WRN's Leisure Centre report, highlighting the policies which disadvantage women and put them at risk, and invite you to contact...

Send us Fan Mail Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news; including football, volleyball and our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week". In this week's episode we stand together with our German sisters as Germany's self-determination act comes into force and we bring news from the US where female volley...