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Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law. The Scottish Government's Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors. Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence. Members of the group have now been appointed ahead of its first meeting later this month. Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helen...

© Shutterstock / Alexandros Michai Staff members arrive to remove the United Kingdom's flag from the European Council building in Brussels on Brexit Day. Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up “Brexit is just going to add to this perfect storm for women that’s raging at the moment”, according to Engender director Emma Ritch. Those working in women’s equality claim their voices have been “absent” from the Brexit conversa...

Updated: January 25, 2021, 9:18 pm © Shutterstock / Alexandros Michai Staff members arrive to remove the United Kingdom's flag from the European Council building in Brussels on Brexit Day. Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up “Brexit is just going to add to this perfect storm for women that’s raging at the moment”, according to Engender director Emma Ritch. Those working in women’s equality claim their voices have been �...