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Women’s Rights Network
Women’s Right Network
94 episodes
2 days ago
Send us a text Sam Wright is a Senior Community Midwife and WRN Derbyshire & Staffordshire member. She is a powerful advocate for women as they go through their pregnancy and birthing journey. Sam begins with the history of midwives and takes us through the ages. She explains the meaning of the word "midwife" as being "with women" throughout their pregnancy. How midwives have been historically persecuted as witches, and in more modern times are marginalised and erased with the increasing ...
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Send us a text Sam Wright is a Senior Community Midwife and WRN Derbyshire & Staffordshire member. She is a powerful advocate for women as they go through their pregnancy and birthing journey. Sam begins with the history of midwives and takes us through the ages. She explains the meaning of the word "midwife" as being "with women" throughout their pregnancy. How midwives have been historically persecuted as witches, and in more modern times are marginalised and erased with the increasing ...
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Women’s Rights Network
SAM WRIGHT, SENIOR COMMUNITY MIDWIFE
Send us a text Sam Wright is a Senior Community Midwife and WRN Derbyshire & Staffordshire member. She is a powerful advocate for women as they go through their pregnancy and birthing journey. Sam begins with the history of midwives and takes us through the ages. She explains the meaning of the word "midwife" as being "with women" throughout their pregnancy. How midwives have been historically persecuted as witches, and in more modern times are marginalised and erased with the increasing ...
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1 month ago
29 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
SORCHA NIC LOCHLAINN at the WRN WOMEN'S FESTIVAL
Send us a text 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. Sorcha Nic Lochlainn is a Director of and Sports Spokeswoman for "The Countess Didn't Fight ...
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1 month ago
35 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
MARY HOWDEN at the WRN WOMEN'S FESTIVAL
Send us a text 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 Howden is a former Head of Education and Workforce Development at the Scottish Social Se...
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2 months ago
28 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
ANITA GERA explains what the Hague Abduction Convention means for families abroad
Send us a text 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 mothers and children being ripped apart. A fascinating, disturbing expose of an international ...
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2 months ago
35 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
JULIE BINDEL has an entertaining and forthright conversation with WRN
Send us a text 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 wide to investigate stories which relate to misogyny. Her lat...
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2 months ago
28 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
AFGHAN WOMEN - Hear the Voices of the Silenced
Send us a text 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 international yachtswoman and WRN member Tracy Edwards, whose charity Maiden raises funds for girls' educationa...
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2 months ago
18 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
PROFESSOR JO PHOENIX looks back on her tribunal win against the Open University
Send us a text 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 to a short excerpt from that conversation. Useful Links: Sex Matters’ piec...
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2 months ago
19 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
STEP UP SENEDD - 100 DAYS - WRN Wales puts the Welsh Senedd on notice to Follow The Law!
Send us a text 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 practices that remain in breach of UK equality law. As a result, over 100 days on from that apex ...
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3 months ago
6 minutes

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NO PRIDE IN BELPER as Lesbians and Gay men banned from Pride stall
Send us a text 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 inclusivity and diversity - and many local schools and businesses are involved in decking the town ...
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3 months ago
7 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
STEPHANIE DAVIES-ARAI explains how trans ideology is harming our children in schools
Send us a text 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 attending, and even tried to report the event as a potential hate crime. These cancellation ...
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3 months ago
34 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
MAGI GIBSON a leading voice in Scottish poetry, discusses blacklisting and cancellation
Send us a text 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, download and subscribe to more of our episodes. And if you’d like to join our conversatio...
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3 months ago
53 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
CATHY LARKMAN Lead for WRN Wales: Women’s Rights Speech at the Welsh Conservative Conference 2025.
Send us a text 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 to speak at their 2025 conference in Llangollen, Denbighshire. WRN Wales launched its ongoing ca...
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3 months ago
11 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
SHARRON DAVIES discusses recent movement in domestic & international women’s sport
Send us a text 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. Sharron reveals the shocking structural capture from the very top down within international sport, par...
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3 months ago
47 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
SUSAN SMITH recounts the battle with the Scottish government that sent shockwaves across the world
Send us a text 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 and how willingly the Scottish parliament allowed itself to be led by powerful trans lobby groups do...
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4 months ago
54 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
STEP UP SENEDD WRN Wales puts the Welsh Senedd on notice to Follow The Law!
Send us a text 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 law! Hear women set out the positive impact of the court ruling for all females, from scho...
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4 months ago
16 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
JK ROWLING & THE NATIONAL TRUST - 4 women Discuss at Hardwick Hall
Send us a text 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 when a Trans Rights Activist chose to disrespect just one woman's name on the tapestry, and that wo...
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4 months ago
17 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
MICHAEL FORAN, expert in equality law, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
Send us a text 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 providers' requirement to comply with the ruling. Find out the answers to some of the most c...
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4 months ago
55 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
ANDREW DOYLE discusses the woke world of identity politics and institutional capture
Send us a text 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, what will it take to cure our institutions of gender ideology fever? Andrew is playwright, journalist,...
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4 months ago
59 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
ISABELLE THIEULEUX in conversation with WRN
Send us a text 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 levels of depravity. The interview explores the differences between French and UK definitions of ra...
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8 months ago
44 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
WRN Sports Shorts - Episode 8
Send us a text 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 determination and passion, and in this fascinating conversation, we hear about the obstacles she faced as a wom...
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8 months ago
32 minutes

Women’s Rights Network
Send us a text Sam Wright is a Senior Community Midwife and WRN Derbyshire & Staffordshire member. She is a powerful advocate for women as they go through their pregnancy and birthing journey. Sam begins with the history of midwives and takes us through the ages. She explains the meaning of the word "midwife" as being "with women" throughout their pregnancy. How midwives have been historically persecuted as witches, and in more modern times are marginalised and erased with the increasing ...