{"id":71178,"date":"2021-03-18T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/new-law-needed-to-protect-women-says-bishop\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:50:00","slug":"new-law-needed-to-protect-women-says-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/new-law-needed-to-protect-women-says-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"New law needed to protect women, says Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In her column in the Press &amp; Journal newspaper, the Rt Rev Anne Dyer highlights the contrast between the celebration of International Women\u2019s Day and then growing public anger over violence against women and sexual harassment on the streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the Rt Rev Dyer, Bishop of Aberdeen &amp; Orkney, said recent events after the death of Sarah Everard in London have brought back unhappy memories and a surge of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sight of women gathering together to \u2018reclaim the streets\u2019 that touched a deep memory within me,\u201d writes Bishop Anne, addressing the problem that she speaks about more than any other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis public display of anger and upset resonated with one of the key formational events in my life. I was reminded of the \u2018reclaim the night\u2019 protests in West Yorkshire in the late 1970s. Many will remember the murders that took place there between 1975 and 1980.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat followed were marches and protests. Woman wrote and carried placards, and raised their voices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told this was going to be a turning point. Things would change. This was not the case. Forty years on and women are protesting the same issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever happens next it cannot include telling women things will be better without making some significant changes. Making misogyny a hate crime would be a start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full column can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/opinion\/columnists\/bishop-anne-dyer\/2980309\/high-time-misogyny-made-a-hate-crime\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her column in the Press &amp; Journal newspaper, the Rt Rev Anne Dyer highlights the contrast between the celebration of International Women\u2019s Day and then growing public anger over violence against women and sexual harassment on the streets. For the Rt Rev Dyer, Bishop of Aberdeen &amp; Orkney, said recent events after the death [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}