This petition was started on International Women's Day 2018. It is on days like this when we can reflect on the mistakes of the past and look at ways of avoiding those mistakes in the future. During the first modern Olympic games in 1896, women were excluded completely on the grounds that their inclusion would be, "impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and incorrect". It wasn't until 1900 that women were actually allowed to compete. 118 years later, women are still segregated from men in Olympic sports and there are still several disciplines where women are excluded completely. It is time for this to end and by signing this petition we are sending a strong message to the Olympic Committee that it is time for all segregation to stop, for all athletes to be allowed to compete together and for athletic ability to be judged and awarded equally regardless of gender.

Thanks to the Government's 'Right to Buy' Policy, local government are forced to offer Social Housing at heavily discounted prices - at approximately up to 70% of value - to elderly, disabled and vulnerable residents in Independent Living Accommodation; thus reducing the housing stock in Social Housing overall. Affordable Housing is only offered at 20% of value which most cannot afford. If residents cannot get social housing, either through an association or the council, they are forced into the more expensive - ON AVERAGE 4 TIMES AS MORE - private renting. For example: In the last six months, 130 Independent Living Accommodation Sites have been lost, never to replaced, amounting to 2% of the current total Social Housing within the Stroud Area alone; an issue that is being replicated across the United Kingdom.

Medical Professionals in the UK Seeking Registration is a campaign group being launched through RAPAR of around 500 medical professionals - doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacists and dentists - who are being prevented from working in the NHS because of the unreasonably high English language testing requirements currently set by the professional bodies responsible for registering them. This problem also affects many more medical professionals who are not yet members of the campaign group. The campaign is calling on the GMC and other bodies to return to more realistic and appropriate English language requirements. Doctors who passed the previous language test standards are currently working successfully in the NHS. But now highly qualified doctors – many of whom have been forced to flee their home countries for humanitarian reasons – are being stopped from using their skills and expertise. Four years ago, the GMC raised its already high score for doctors in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) even further. The exam tests general knowledge of English language and includes topics such as archaeology, jam making and current affairs – much of it irrelevant to the kind of terminology used by medical professionals. Dentists, pharmacists and technicians have also had their English language testing scores raised and want a return to the previous levels. In addition, they are asking the councils responsible for registering them to introduce the Occupational English Test (OET) which will cover medical contexts rather than topics that have nothing to do with their professions. Patients are in urgent need of these medical professionals - they should be given the opportunity to use their knowledge, proficiency and dedication to work in our struggling NHS.

There are over 320 million people worldwide who suffer from a form of colour blindness, mostly males (8% of the population). Having dealt recently with HSBC bank, they do not seem to be up to date with how to deal with people with this form of disability. We need to change their attitude. They have redesigned their cards to all be similar across 30 countries but with different colour combinations. I have been told on the telephone that the grey business debit card I have will not or cannot be replaced with any other colour. The card to me is silver with a shiny silver lion and silver embossed numbers making it impossible to read (like the image above but imagine it being laminated, shiny). Many people have already said they have cards with such issues and they are not colour blind so this needs to be addressed by all banks.

This is hugely important because through blood donation we can save many people’s lives. It seems that gay men are only not allowed to give blood because of highly alarming rates of HIV within the community. However, this is awfully discriminative, considering thousands of heterosexual people give blood, even though they may also have sex with someone who has an STI. This means therefore that people should be inspected through a case-by-case basis, rather than categorised into not being allowed to give blood just because they simply identify as a homosexual man. I find this outrageous, that the current law states gay men have to not have sex for a whole 12 months in order to give blood. It is said to be reduced to 3 months, however, I deeply believe this is still unfair, as heterosexual men do not have to abstain from having sex if they want to donate at all. I am sure homosexual men want to donate blood just as much as any other man in this world and they should be given the right to do so. We see adverts all over the place saying that someone with a rare blood group needs a blood donation and enlarging the group by including homosexual men (after checkup for any serious STIs) could also help this, as they surely also have rare blood groups that may not be found in anyone else in the population.

This Youth Club serves a community that is already blighted by economic deprivation. In addition it houses parts of much needed Social Services functions that assist some of our most vulnerable citizens. Furthermore, we do not believe that this closure is in line with the spirit of The Future Generations Act.

This will give parents peace of mind, stability and save hard earned money for the future of their children or utilising that money in other productive use.

This is important because there are lots of disabled people in Poole, who have no mobility at all. They can not sit on a toilet, an need to be lifted out of their wheelchair to be changed. They are expected to be put on a dirty toilet floor to be changed which is not acceptable, let alone hygienic! This is neither safe for the disabled person, or the carer that is having to lift them in and out of their chair! I.e weight issues. Many families can not/ will not use certain places because there are no suitable changing facilities which is discrimination!

The no1 and no3 bus service is due to be discontinued leaving rural villages with elderly residents, working people and students without transport to Chelmsford town centre, Southend town centre and Rayleigh station. This isolates service users and stops transport to doctors surgeries, colleges, universities, train stations and hospitals.

Homelessness is important to our country what sort of planet make its own money yet has its own people starving and freezing to death on its streets of all ages in all countries great Britain has homelessness what's great about that print some notes of round them all up and help them don't they deserve a chance at life , if evil serial killers and pedophiles get the help why not the vunrable good homeless people why ? 🤔

It is important to the community as there are alot of families with children (myself included) that are affected by this. Residents of hillingdon should be treated equally and given the same rights as everyone else !!!!! Please consider making parking easier for residents that live above the pavillions allowing parking permits so that we have the same rights as everyone else 🚘🚗🚘

Universities can use their discretion in setting fees and therefore have the power to decide to charge home fees or waive fees altogether. THE NEED FOR EQUAL ACCESS Asylum Seekers • Classified as overseas students and have to pay international student tuition fees. • Cannot access student finance (loans) to cover the cost of tuition fees or living costs. • Cannot work and if they have no money, must live on government support of just £36.95 per week. People granted ‘Discretionary Leave to Remain’ (DLR) • Classified as overseas students and have to pay international student tuition fees. • Cannot access student finance (loans) to cover the cost of tuition fees or living costs. • Allowed to work but cannot access student finance. In most cases this would mean a university education is out of reach. • As of June 2016, a small number of people with DLR are eligible for student finance, under a category called ‘long residence’ for those who have lived in the UK for half their life. People granted ‘Humanitarian Protection’ (including resettled Syrians) • Classified as home students and can pay home tuition fees. • Cannot access a student loan to cover the costs of their fees or living costs until they meet the 3 years ordinarily resident criteria. • Allowed to work but cannot access student finance. In most cases this would mean a university education is out of reach. Many refugees have been forced to abandon their education. They arrive in the UK ready to enter university, but without access to student finance they cannot do so, for example, Syrian refugees arriving in the UK under the government resettlement programme will be forced to wait three years until they can apply for a student loan to cover tuition fees and living costs. Young people who are in the UK seeking asylum are legally obliged to go to school like all British young people. Each year those who are academically able, pass their A levels only to find that they are suddenly separated from their British born class mates and barred from progressing to university. The system which classed them as “legally obliged to attend school” now re classes them as “international” and puts financial barriers in place to prevent further study. This situation is affecting the lives of people who are in the UK legally as a result of life threatening situations in their home countries. They cannot return home to study and cannot gain education to build a new life here. STAR receives calls every day in the run up to the new academic year from young asylum seekers and people with DLR and HP, desperate to take up a hard won place at university but unable to do so due to financial barriers. Instead huge potential is wasted as people are blocked from the education which would enable them to make a full contribution to our society and, when peace is restored, work to rebuild their own.