Women

EASTERN CONNECTION are holding women’s coffee mornings on Tuesday mornings at the Carpenters & Docklands Centre. All women are welcome, but please register first by calling 07533-364 862. ●Read more about it: Company Drinks hold community open house Dabirul Choudhury ...

IT IS 50 YEARS since the first Asian woman joined the Metropolitan Police. PC Karpal Kaur Sandhu joined the force in 1971. The Met held a special – virtual – event to mark the occasion and remember this pioneering woman. ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...

WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. How do we conduct this debate? Can the oppressed ...

HERE’S A TRIBUTE to women from a popular US author – reminding us to look at women as individuals, not as an amorphous underclass. “I try to write parts for women that are as complicated as women actually are.” Nora ...

These words, spoken by a poet who emerged from the US Civil Rights Movement, remind us that it’s not enough just to stand up for Number One. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then ...

INDIAN PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi has tweeted his delight at the decision of the India Parliament to criminalise the “triple talaq” divorce allowed in the Muslim religion. In 2017 the Indian Supreme Court declared the triple talaq was unconstitutional. A ...

CLLR RITA BEGUM has been nominated by the Westminster Labour Party to be a considered as the Labour candidate for the West Central seat on the Greater London Assembley (GLA). Cllr Begum has represented Maida Vale ward on Westminster Council ...

THE ENGLAND Women’s Football Team has finished in fourth place in the Women’s World Cup. It was a tournament that promised so much and ended well, but without a medal. England were not at their best in the first half ...

WITH THE FIFA Women’s World Cup reaching its final stages, there’s a huge welling of interest in football from hundreds of women players – including East End teenagers. And interested teenagers need look no further than to Leyton Orient for ...