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‘Women shouldn’t be defined by abusive past’ says campaigner

A woman who endured appalling domestic abuse through coercive control by her former husband and is now a campaigner to help other victims, with support and encouragement from Croydon’s first woman MP. Andrea Aviet is using events around today’s International … Continue reading

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Cuts to Family Justice Centre are putting lives at risk

LEE WEBSTER, a campaigner from South Norwood, on the vital importance of International Women’s Day for Croydon Every year on March 8, we mark International Women’s Day, on which for a hundred years, women activists have campaigned for gender equality … Continue reading

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Woodley backs protest at Justice Centre on Women’s Day

Today is the 101st International Women’s Day. We asked Louisa Woodley, the Labour candidate for the London Assembly seat in Croydon and Sutton, for her thoughts on the local significance of this global happening. Woodley works as a local councillor, … Continue reading

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