21st May 2021

UCU members questionnaire and CEDAW

UCU members questionnaire

The University and College Union (UCU) are sending out questionnaires to their members on academic freedom. We have seen from the University of Essex's independent inquiry into the no-platforming of gender critical academics this week some of the many problems with freedom of speech in universities. Women have been no platformed, threatened and silenced for expressing gender critical views.

dee dee @reel_woman

.@ucu is currently sending out a questionnaire for members asking about academic freedom. Please look out for it and fill it in. They need to know how many of us are losing our freedom to speak about women's rights and understand how important it is for them to support us.

There appears to be a bias from the UCU with the introduction to the questionnaire calling concerns “overblown rhetoric”

It’s really important that the truth of gender critical women’s experiences in academia is heard.

CEDAW People’s Tribunal action

The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is a international human rights treaty. A group called CEDAW People’s tribunal (CPT) has been set up to determine how best to integrate CEDAW into UK legislation. JL has written a detailed background on CPT and it’s problems here. In brief CPT does not appear to define women as adult human female but includes males and has been ignoring many requests by women to clarify this. This group will be responsible for drawing up proposals that could become UK law.

Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore

Call for Direct Action re @CedawPT and its failure to confirm its definition of 'woman'.

gcritical.orgAN EMAIL TO THE ‘PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL’ TO BE HELD ON 21st, 22nd and 23rd June 2021 - Gender CriticalBackground For a very clear and useful explanation of what the hell is going on please see this post from Glinner by JL In essence: The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979…

Action

• Please share that there is a UCU questionnaire and fill it in if you are a member. Questions are optional if you are concerned about anonymity.

• There are details here on how to contact CPT and follow up action if ignored.