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Women – all women – perform these psychological tricks to cope with harassment from people like ... - Yet there has been little consideration of the effects of this on mental health . Being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body has ...

Sometimes all you need in a mental health first aid kit is tissues and some kindness - There have been quite a few times when my mental health has been extremely poor, and I was in a very depressed and sometimes confused state ...

Cornwall is the second-poorest region in northern Europe and a quarter of children live in poverty ... - Over a quarter of children lived in poverty in Cornwall in 2016, and the .... receives more economic aid from the EU than any other part of the UK .

Government urged to end 'period poverty ' in schools amid concern girls forced to use socks as ... - The Government has been urged to end period poverty in schools amid concerns young girls are being forced to use socks and toilet paper instead of ...

Richard Branson claims Brexit will be STOPPED because Brexiteers are 'DYING OFF' - The billionaire also took aim at Boris Johnson and the “ older group of British people ” who “took a gun and shot at their feet” for listening to the Foreign ...

Young people lose more than £6000 a year due to wage discrimination -  Four in five employers in a YouGov poll for the charity said that young people contribute as much as or more than older people to their workplaces.

Eight-year- old schoolgirl battling alopecia has absolutely inspiring attitude to going bald - An eight-year- old schoolgirl who is battling alopecia and has been called 'baldy' ... "The hardest thing is when people assume she has cancer, people give ... happen as the ones we do have in the UK are still not being represented.

New bid to help isolated pensioners after elderly woman lies dead at home for six weeks - Age UK Camden supports 9,000 older people each year. The council – which has been crippled by huge care funding cuts – says it will aim to use ...

On Reports of Violations of LGBTI Persons Rights in Chechnya - We will continue to raise our concerns about reports of gross violations of rights of LGBTI persons in Chechnya until Russia provides a serious ...

Trump to become first sitting president to speak at anti- gay conference - Trump will be the keynote speaker at the Values Voter Summit this weekend, an event held by the listed anti- LGBT hate group .

I have never felt so loved in my life': Twitter users share the heartwarming stories of how they came ... - Come out as gay . Come out as ... A British woman shared screengrabs of a text exchange she had with her mother a year ago when she first came out.

Facebook, Twitter face a UK levy if cyber bullying not tackled - Facebook, Twitter face a UK levy if cyber bullying not tackled ... moderate bullying or offensive content about children, women, gay people or religions.

Gay man 'felt like he was raped' after horrifying sexual assault by drunken woman - A BAFTA-nominated filmmaker has opened up about the PTSD he has suffered after a drunken woman sexually assaulted him. Frank McGowan, who ...

Harvey Weinstein told Cara Delevingne: 'You'll never make it in Hollywood if you're gay ' - Weinstein, she writes, then said that if she “was gay or decided to be with a woman especially in public” that she would never get a role playing a ...

Royal first as Prince Harry picks up award from gay magazine - Prince Harry is to make an appearance at this evening's Attitude Awards, where he will collect a posthumous award on behalf of his mother, Princess ...

Conservative activist wants gay Star Trek characters to 'cure' their homosexuality - Right-wing activist Peter LaBarbera has suggested that Star Trek should 'balance' the number of gay characters on TV by having some 'ex- gay ' ..

Kosovo just held its first official LGBT pride event and even the president turned up - A 2015 report the National Democratic Institution, a US organisation that promotes democratic institutions, found that gay and transgender people face ...

Rainbow flag flies at Stonewall, but it's not on federal land -  LGBTI activists speculate that Trump administration officials became uncomfortable amid advance publicity that the rainbow flag would wave over ...

Sam Smith To Donate Aussie Concert Profits To Three Local Charities - The Equality Campaign is thrilled that Sam has decided to support thousands of LGBTI Australians through this donation to the campaign,” said 

How about getting married on a cruise? - The cruise company can now cater to LGBTI couples because their ships are registered in Malta, where new laws allowing same sex couples to wed ...

California enacts protections for LGBTI seniors in long-term care facilities -  Trump administration may be taking steps that undermine protections for LGBTI seniors, but California is going in the opposite direction.

Victoria's top cop should focus on policing, not politics - We've got a lot of officers who identify as LGBTI officers and yeah, we're largely supportive of them having the same rights as everyone else,” he said.

One in three LGBTI Scots have been a hate crime victim at least 10 times - Almost a third of LGBTI Scots who have experienced hate crime have been the victim of at least 10 attacks, new research has revealed. A survey of ...

Why some gay men should worry more about their maturity than their masculinity - Of course, behaving in an immature fashion is not the preserve of LGBTI people. Successful individuals and powerful figures across society – even ...