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Podcast: Standard Issue Podcast
Episode: SIM Ep 476 IWD 2021 #1: Harriet Wistrich and the fight for justice for women
Description: Feminist lawyer, fierce campaigner for women’s rights, founder of the Centre For Women’s Justice, a charity and public interest law firm holding the state to account for violence against women and girls, and co-founder of campaigning organisation Justice For Women, Harriet Wistrich is a bonafide hero. In the first of our six long-form interviews with excellent women to celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, Harriet chats to Mickey about the dire stats around rape prosecutions, taking the Crown Prosecution Service to court, women who kill their abusers and the misogyny rife throughout the criminal justice system in Englan...