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'Violence against women begins successful the playground'
Further to your caller campaign, This Is Not Right, highlighting the shocking grade of unit carried retired against women and girls, whether astatine location oregon different (Metro, Mon).
I americium a parent of duplicate girls. The worst maltreatment 1 of my daughters experienced was successful their archetypal school (which was rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted).
The perpetrator was a lad successful her year. This maltreatment started erstwhile my girl was 9 years old.
The lad (also nine) acceptable up a ‘sex corner’ successful the playground, wherever helium would pin my girl to the railings and gyrate against her. He would perpetually taunt her for ‘blow jobs’ and became physically violent, slapping her.
The school’s effect was to play down this situation. There was a reluctance to constitute retired incidental reports and successful 1 instance, I was told ‘he said helium didn’t deed her hard’. This was from a pistillate teacher.
His behaviour was ne'er taken earnestly successful the changeless 5 years of abuse, with it continuing into precocious school, earlier I removed some girls from the school.
Peer-on-peer maltreatment is rife successful UK schools and an overhaul needs to instrumentality place.
Schools should beryllium a harmless spot yet they truthful seldom are. Violence and misogyny begins astatine a younger property these days and schools request to code these issues alternatively than support their reputations. Anon, via email
The assisted dying debate
‘There volition beryllium an unspoken unit to extremity our lives’
Jenny Hands (MetroTalk, Tue) says legalising assisted dying would pb to the disabled and those with semipermanent health issues feeling pressured into taking that enactment successful guilt astatine being a load connected others.
I couldn’t hold more. As a disabled idiosyncratic successful a disabled community, determination volition beryllium an underlying, unspoken unit to extremity lives prematurely.
We volition beryllium made to consciousness blameworthy and selfish if we bash not easiness the ‘burden’ placed connected household members, medics and societal care.
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed astatine 21 and fixed an highly abbreviated beingness expectancy. It is apt helium would person chosen to extremity his beingness had helium been fixed the choice. Instead helium led a fulfilling beingness and vocation good into his 70s – the aforesaid for galore spinal-cord wounded people.
Many radical who person accidents volition privation to extremity their lives erstwhile they acquisition life-changing injuries. In time, however, they travel to judge and accommodate and larn to unrecorded antithetic but blessed lives.
The stringent safeguards successful spot volition get watered down implicit the years and earlier we cognize it, radical with disabilities oregon intelligence wellness conditions volition beryllium offered a ‘way out’ with assisted dying. Maria, Tottenham
While I’m not against assisted dying, I wonderment whether determination volition beryllium an interaction connected security payouts? Will it beryllium classed arsenic suicide, truthful negating insurance? Susan Ryan, Oldham
Israel and accountability for warfare crimes
‘No justification for UK’s miltary exports’
Now the International Criminal Court has issued an apprehension warrant for Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu connected the grounds of warfare crimes and crimes against humanity, determination tin beryllium nary justification successful our government’s continued subject exports to Israel.
Such exports should person been stopped agelong earlier now, considering grounds that has been openly disposable astir the consequences of Israeli subject action. Oxfam said this twelvemonth that ‘lifesaving food, medicine, aesculapian supplies, substance and tents person been systematically blocked from entering Gaza’. Last period a UN committee of enquiry accused Israel of carrying retired a ‘concerted argumentation to destruct Gaza’s healthcare system’.
The civilian casualty figures from the struggle person been sickening. Save The Children said, besides past month, that ‘14,100 children person been killed successful Gaza’.
Hamas whitethorn good beryllium utilizing civilians arsenic quality shields but we person seen that the Israeli maneuver of attacking Hamas wherever they are claimed to beryllium has led to civilians being killed successful ample numbers.
The catastrophic world successful Gaza – and present Lebanon – means determination should beryllium not conscionable an arms embargo but afloat sanctions against Israel. Kevin, Watford
Britain’s motivation work to Tibet
‘Had Communist China not invaded Tibet my parents would inactive beryllium alive’
Raffaele (MetroTalk, Thu) rightly points retired that the Chinese Communist Party is
‘a transnational transgression organisation that could beryllium linked to each the evil of caller humanities events – whether Covid oregon wars’.
I cognize this to beryllium existent due to the fact that had Communist China not invaded and occupied my state Tibet successful 1959, my parents would inactive beryllium alive.
China’s oppressive regularisation successful Tibet has resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of much than 1.2million Tibetan men, women and children. Hundreds stay imprisoned oregon successful solitary confinement.
The magnitude of enactment the UK is providing Ukraine successful warring disconnected Putin’s Russia is commendable. If the aforesaid level of enactment had past been fixed to Tibet, it would beryllium escaped from China’s oppressive rule.
Because of its historical ties, Britain has a motivation work to talk up for Tibet. High clip it does thing affirmative for Tibet. Tsering Tashi, London
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