Category: Speeches
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Lucy Hunter Blackburn: speech to the No Males in Female Jails demonstration, 9 February 2023
“One of the first times I spoke in public on women’s rights was in June 2019, on this subject – what was happening in prisons in Scotland. I said...
9th February 2023
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Lucy Hunter Blackburn: Speech to Forth Valley Feminists’ Women’s Festival, 4 February 2023
Women and the Scottish Parliament: what the Gender Recognition Reform Bill taught us So first of all thank you for inviting me to speak on behalf of the three...
6th February 2023
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Lisa Mackenzie: speech at rally outside HMP Cornton Vale, 26 November 2022
In April 2012, I began a new job working for the Howard League for Penal Reform. In my first week, I attended the launch of the report of the...
26th November 2022
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Lisa Mackenzie: Speech at rally for women’s rights, Scottish Parliament. 6 October 2022
For over half a decade the Scottish Government has worked on its proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act. That represents a third of the time the current Government...
6th October 2022
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Lisa Mackenzie’s speech to FWS rally, 2 September 2021
Lisa Mackenzie’s speech at the For Women Scotland rally outside the Scottish Parliament on 2 September 2021 can be accessed here.
2nd September 2021