MP Stella Creasy Tells Vogue Why Misogyny Must Be Treated As A Hate Crime

Vogue magazine is backing the campaign to establish misogyny as a hate crime within the Domestic Abuse Bill currently in parliament ....

"All it takes is a quick Google search to see that Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow in London, has been fighting to make misogyny a hate crime in the UK for years now. In 2018, she successfully put forward an amendment to the “upskirting” bill, to help ensure misogyny would be seen as an aggravating factor in the offence. Now, far from being sidetracked from her mission by the ongoing global pandemic, she’s campaigning for misogyny to be treated as a hate crime in the enhanced version of the Domestic Abuse Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.

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Creasy, along with the Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine and Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts, is pushing for “Amendment 84”, set to be debated in Parliament on 6 July, which would require police to record and act on offences that are motivated by misogyny. They have evidence that the change would prove effective. In 2016, Nottinghamshire Police became the first force in the country to treat misogyny as a hate crime."

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