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Public anger, women’s anger, is rising. A Reclaim These Streets vigil is planned for Saturday evening on Clapham Common, London, and at least nine others are planned in towns and cities such as Cambridge, Cardiff, Liverpool and St Andrews. However, organisers have said they have been warned by police they face fines and prosecution under Covid rules. A fundraising drive to launch a court challenge to the Metropolitan police’s interpretation of the rules raised the required £30,000 within hours. “We are having a #MeToo moment right now,” said the writer Mary Morgan, one of the vigil�...

Rhiannon Giddens Dan Winters Rhiannon Giddens and a roster of classical singers and experts from various fields will dive deep into some of opera’s most renowned melodies for the third season of Aria Code. The podcast from WQXR and The Metropolitan Opera returns March 10, with new episodes to be released biweekly through November. In each episode, Grammy winner and MacArthur Fellow Giddens introduces a recording of an operatic performance—often of an aria familiar to listeners. However, as the piece is broken down into beats, a panel explores the...

Hundreds of British girls ‘married off as children each year’ Maya Oppenheim © Provided by The Independent Hundreds of British girls are being “married off” as children each year due to UK law failing to properly protect them, campaigners have warned. Charities said child marriage is often deemed an issue for the developing world but it occurs across the UK, it is just “hidden in plain sight”. Religious marriages which are not formally registered are legally permitted to occur at any age in the UK, with girls as young as 10 sometimes married off. But it is diffic...

And calls from 16 to 24-year-olds rose by more than 50 per cent, the information suggests. Meanwhile, the Karma Nirvana helpline for victims of so-called honour-based abuse saw its most significant monthly increase in activity (79 per cent) during the first lockdown, from 782 incoming and outgoing calls and emails in March to 1,399 in May. Committee chairman Yvette Cooper said: “This new data is deeply troubling. “The increase in domestic abuse that began at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic has continued throughout the year and shows no sign of abating. “We called for more s...

Picture the scene: a young bride is alone with her new husband on their wedding night. They make love. But then comes a disturbing test of their union. He examines the bedsheets for drops of blood to prove she had preserved her sexual purity for him. As part of this traditional process, the sheet is placed on a cushion and put outside the bedroom door where it can be examined by the couple’s waiting families. Once they are satisfied with the proof of blood – showing that the bride’s hymen broke on her wedding night and that she was a virgin bride – this ‘ceremony’ is finished. The...