NUS Constitution Regarding Liberation Campaigns.
Liberation Campaigns.
50 The Liberation Campaigns shall be Politically Autonomous bodies that are responsible for the formation of policy and the carrying out of the policy work of the National Union that has been entrusted to them by the National Conference and that is of concern to the students represented by each liberation campaign, except that the Liberation Campaigns shall be subject to the powers of the National Conference and the Trustee Board under Article 69.
50.1 They shall stay subject to the powers of the democratic procedures committee unless National conference resolves to devolve any or all of the powers of the Democratic Procedures Committee to a Liberation Campaign Democratic Procedures Committee.
51 Only those Individual Members that are defined as being a part of a particular Liberation Campaign shall be entitled to take part directly in the governance of that Liberation Campaign.
52 There shall be four Liberation Campaigns, as follows:
52.1 Women;
52.2 Black Students;
52.3 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Students; and
52.4 Disabled Students,
53 The powers, composition and procedures of the Liberation Campaigns shall be further defined in the Liberation Campaigns Rules.
Its appalling that even in this day and age and after all these years, that women in work are NOT treated equally. Many times women are asked to perform duties on an equal footing with men and probably have far more to lose. Most women these days have children, a home to look after and hold down a job. Why then are men paid far more for doing far less? Children in High Schools are encouraged to participate in activities once thought of as gender related; Im cetain that those same expectations of equality will follow once they are at work. What a shame that the girls will be sorely dissapointed and find that given opportunities to work in a mans world, they will not recieve the same recogntion and pay as men.
Hi – hope you had a good debate. How did it go and what was the result?