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how they access employment, education, and resources. It’s crucial that lawmakers recognise and safeguard the reality of abortion as healthcare - that it is vital, safe and one of the most routinely used medical procedures by women across

to services, access, and education around abortion. In Scotland the law we have inherited from Westminster means that it is currently illegal to procure an abortion without the agreement of two doctors. The organisations involved in this

briefly before returning to education, health, the economy and, significantly, the climate The unveiling of the Scottish Government annual legislative programme was a muted affair, even as Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the ambition of her proposals

but also contraception, sex education, and women’s autonomy. This is hardly surprising – divorce was only legalised in Ireland in 1996 and there was a ban on selling or importing contraceptives until 1978. We had some truly shocking

including access to work, education, housing, and health. Women also spoke about the challenge of the asylum process itself. The asylum process, and its failure to understand the patriarchal context within women's countries of origin is

increased stigma or lack of education around sexual health such as young women, disabled women, women from BME communities and LBTI women and men. There are clear links between unplanned pregnancy and abortion rates, and areas of deprivation.

we also await the new education bill with interest. The programmes Programmes for government also include policy programmes and initiatives, and the most eye-catching is the summary commitment to “ provid[e] access to

Governments must provide education and opportunities for engagement with democratic processes, as well as the actual means of casting your vote, in order to fulfil their human rights obligations. Denying people the right to vote

employment, and in education. Scottish Government must move towards a system that values carers, and recognises their contribution to Scotland’s economy. The public sector equality duty requires Scottish Government to take

making vital decisions about education, social care, transport – and the voices around the table are still overwhelmingly those of older white men. We need to put in the work to ensure that progress doesn’t stall, or worse, recede as