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• Shadow equalities minister pledges equalisation of hate crime law

  20-11-2021 19:03
  
  Taiwo Owatemi MP, the shadow minister for women and equalities, and herself a UNISON member, spoke to the union’s LGBT+ conference virtually this afternoon (pictured), taking the opportunity to announce that a future Labour government would equalise hate-crime legislation to ensure that all such crimes see sentencing affected by the motive.
  The trained pharmacist whose worked in the NHS, thanked UNISON members for all they’ve done during the pandemic.
  And she looked back at the impor
  
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• Delegates pledge to fight back against rising tide of transphobia

  20-11-2021 18:24
  
  UNISON’s LGBT+ conference opened in Brighton this morning, and on Transgender Day of Remembrance, at the end of Transgender Awareness Week, the first day’s business was dominated by the need to fight back against increasingly strident transphobia, including campaigns that are being funded by the far right.
  Delegates first watched a video presentation from Francia Blanco, the international representative for SINTRADOTRANS, a union of transgender domestic workers in Nicaragua, who spok
  
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• Christina McAnea thanks activists at LGBT+ conference

  20-11-2021 15:02
  
  Christina McAnea took to the rostrum at UNION’s LGBT+ conference in Brighton this morning, to deliver a message of hope, of pride and of gratitude, mixed with anger at the antics of the Tory government in Westminster.
  After a very warm greeting for what was her first live speech to a conference since becoming UNISON’s first female general secretary at the beginning of the year, she told delegates that she was “incredibly proud of the work our union has done – and you&rsqu
  
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