Petitions tagged with 'Equal Rights'

• Allow heterosexual couples to enter a civil partnership
  The Government should be congratulated on finally introducing the Same Sex Marriage bill to give gay couples equal rights. Should they now introduce legislation to allow heterosexual couples to enter into a civil partnership. My partner and I have [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 31 March 2015, Signatures: 12
• Civil Partnerships for Heterosexual Couples
  Although David Cameron argued that same-sex marriage is an issue of equality, straight couples continue to be prohibited from having a civil partnership. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 31 March 2015, Signatures: 78
• Abolish VAT on Women's Sanitary Products
  We are petitioning to abolish tax on female sanitary products, as items such as men's razors are tax free but women's sanitary products are considered luxury products by the government. This law was frozen in 1973, when the UK Parliament was very [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 19 March 2015, Signatures: 1342
• Abolish VAT on Sanitary Products
  We are petitioning to abolish tax on female sanitary products, as items such as men's razors are tax free but women's sanitary products are not considered luxury products. This law was frozen in 1973, when the UK Parliament was very male dominated, [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 17 March 2015, Signatures: 19
• Make the United Kingdom a secular nation, by seperation church and state
  We want to see the separation of church and state, we don't want to see the church of England representatives sitting in the house of lords, we don't want the queen to be advocating for one religion as its head, as this is not in line with giving [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 25 March 2015, Signatures: 29
• Total Reform Of The Childrens Act And Family Law In General
  The government need to reform the childrens act and areas surrounding family law, this needs bringing up to date. There are too many parents that take advantage of the system and flout court orders with proper sanctions if they are broken. Court [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 6 February 2015, Signatures: 12
• Universal Credit discrimination against Under 25s
  The Equality act 2010 means it's against the law to be discriminated because of age, yet this is exactly what the Government is doing with the standard allowance element of Universal Credit. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 9 January 2015, Signatures: 3
• Every child should be allowed a relationship with thier father and not denied it by a mother
  That all Children have a right to know who there father is and the right to have a relationship with thier father [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 8 July 2014, Signatures: 208
• Stop segregation in universities
  Universities uk, the governing body of universities has issued guidance to universities regarding segregation of male and female students at university. In recent years speakers and organisers of some speakers have insisted on male and female [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 13 December 2014, Signatures: 25
• Stop CSA deductions for parents with joint residency orders
  We the below signed want to abolish child support payments to parents where there is a joint residency order in place and to remove the "resident parent" label so both parents have the ability to claim for benefits there child is entitled too. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 6 December 2014, Signatures: 31
• Equal rights for female and male persons under the age of consent to be safe from genital mutilation (circumcision).
  Regardless of the methods, religious background and reasons (unless medically necessary). Every person should have the right to reach the age of consent without being permanently disfigured. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 5 November 2014, Signatures: 159
• Motorcycle Helmet law
  The UK Motorcycle helmet should be changed or removed. Currently allowing one group to not wear a helmet is illegal and as we all should have equal rights to choose to wear a helmet, or not, should the law be removed. Amend the Road Traffic act to be [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 17 October 2014, Signatures: 4
• The new act of union
  Create a New act of union, giving all member states to the United Kingdom equal rights and decentralising government responsibility in all areas except defence and foreign policy. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 19 September 2014, Signatures: 1
• NHS wig for cancer patients receiving private treatment
  Cancer patients receiving treatment privately are currently not entitled to a wig on the NHS. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 13 August 2014, Signatures: 55
• End Israeli Apartheid
  This is a petition requesting that the UK government denounces the illegal military occupation of Palestine, to condemn the racial segregation implemented by the IDF and to put economic pressure on the Israeli government to give equal rights to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 7 November 2013, Signatures: 2
• Civil partnerships for straight couples
  We, the undersigned, do not wish to impose our beliefs or will unto any other persons and act purely in an effort to allow us to act how we personally choose. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 28 March 2014, Signatures: 35
• Campaign for formal recognition of prosopagnosia (face blindness)
  Prosopagnosia (or face blindness) is characterized by the inability to recognize others from their face. The condition can be acquired or developmental (i.e. lifelong) in origin, and is thought to affect one person in fifty. Yet, public and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 5 March 2014, Signatures: 546
• Improve Care standards through Professional Development and Staff Training
  We the undersigned call on the Department of Health to legislate ensuring that all care staff working with people with learning disabilities and autism in a residential care setting are required to meet a minimum set of qualifications and have [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 14 December 2013, Signatures: 22
• men having equal rights to their children
  Make men and women equal in the eyes of the law regarding caring and providing support for their children. Make mediation law. Listen to the Childs needs not to the parents needs. Remove the law regarding family allowance ie following device both [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 11 June 2013, Signatures: 14
• Sanctions on Israel For War Crimes and Terrorism.
  Israel is Complicit of Numerous War Crimes against the Indeginous People of the Region. We Call on All Governments to End, Military, Weapons and Monetary Support to Israel. Stop Justifying their War Crimes. Sanctions must be Put on Israel for the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 28 November 2013, Signatures: 26
• Ducks to have equal rights as swans
  Swans have more rights than ducks which is just unfair, although swans are the queens property, ducks still deserve as much protection as swans. I'd like the government to introduce a new law for ducks to have all the rights and protection that swans [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 22 October 2013, Signatures: 19
• End discrimination of Right To Buy rules
  At present disabled and elderly social housing tenants are denied the right to buy their rented homes. They should have equal rights with any other tenant and not be discriminated against. Private tenants and homeowners are not stopped from owning or [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 8 October 2013, Signatures: 2
• Legalize same-sex marriage
  I believe same-sex marriage should be legalized. There are numerous amounts of flaws in why it is considered 'disgusting' and why it should not be legalized. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders should be allowed equal rights. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 27 September 2013, Signatures: 77
• Support the Rights of Disabled People: Stop Modern-Day Eugenics
  The Paralympics bring to our attention the amazing achievements of our disabled athletes. However under current law, some of these athletes could have been aborted up to the day of their birth. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 31 August 2013, Signatures: 40
• Equal Rights for Zero hours Workers
  Zero hour workers to get same rights as Employees. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 13 June 2013, Signatures: 11
• Prisoners to have more equal rights
  Prisoners should be treated more equally and have more equal rights during incarceration. This could include not being made to 'slop out', and having the right to vote - it is their country, too! [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 22 March 2013, Signatures: 8
• Skin Deep workforce
  To stop discrimantion against people with tattoo's piercings and colored hair an appearance of someone makes no differance to someone ability to work this applies to all ages. Places of work need to recognise peoples right to self expresion all we [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 13 March 2013, Signatures: 9
• Equal Rights for Design!
  ELLE Decoration UK petitions the government to afford the discipline of design the same UK copyright protection as is currently granted to works of literature, drama, music, film and art: ie 70 years after the death of the originating author/s. This [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 9 January 2013, Signatures: 1463
• Holiday booking reform to give equal rights to additional passengers
  At present additional passengers on a holiday booking have no rights and can have their holiday cancelled or amended by the lead passenger without any form of recourse. The minimum should be access to holiday status information and the right to know [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 15 December 2012, Signatures: 3
• Sex equality for retirement age
  Women have for years complained and fought for equal rights. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 5 December 2012, Signatures: 5
• Give men equal rights to decide on abortion
  Too many get women get pregnant without being in a stable relationship and decide to keep the child for many different reasons even if a father does is against the pregnancy continuing. Males have no rights to make a decision in this and then the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 7 November 2012, Signatures: 5
• equal rights for all able bodied
  Equal rights for all able bodied people. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 12 October 2012, Signatures: 2
• Equal rights to live and work in the Channel Islands for children born on the Islands of expat parents.
  Currently children born on the Channel Isles of parents who were also born and schooled there currently do not have the same rights as their parents, to return and live there, if the parents moved away whist the children were young. This needs to be [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 11 October 2012, Signatures: 1
• Restore Pension Cuts
  Pensions have been disincentivised by Brown's tax grab. means testing is unfair and complicated, open to 'gaming' the system. everyone should have the same equal rights to pensions. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 3 October 2012, Signatures: 3
• More Benefits for couples who are living together with no children
  Us couples that have mortgages to pay should have some equal rights to those with children. Some kind of benefit entitlement should be made available for us especially if a partner comes out of work and help is needed with the bills ! [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 15 June 2012, Signatures: 3
• Equal Rights for Same Sex Blood Donors to those of Hetrosexual Relationships
  We the undersigned believe that the current blanket ban on MSM (Men who have had Sex with Men) donors is discriminatory, homophobic and is based on out-dated prejudice rather than scientific evidence and that many gay and bisexual men would be low [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 12 September 2012, Signatures: 24
• Equal rights for couples on benefits to the same living allowance as pensioners
  Is it just and fair, when a couple are on Benefits through no fault of their own are only allowed £105.95 living allowance per week that the Government say a couple can live on when councils assess Council Tax and Housing Benefit.This allowance [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 30 August 2012, Signatures: 2
• equal rights for fathers
  It should be the right of every parent to bring up their children. The government thinks absent fathers should only contribute financially. When parents split the mother is given preference to bring up the child involved. Isn’t this sexual bias, [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 7 September 2012, Signatures: 39
• Equal rights for fathers with children.
  Fathers should have the same equal rights when it comes to child access and not be treated any diffrently by the courts and CAFCASS. The majority of fathers are accused wrongly by the mother with false allegations that stop the children from seeing [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 16 August 2012, Signatures: 19
• Better equal rights for transgendered people
  In the United Kingdom their is currently very little policy to protect Transgendered people in the Work Place from being fired etc. hence the policy of the NHS placing transgendered people under the mental health section in order to give them equal [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 15 August 2012, Signatures: 17
• Equal Rights for Co-habiting Couples
  I want the government to give equal rights and responsibilities to the 4 million co-habiting couples in England and Wales, many of whom do not realize that they do not have equality with married or civil partership couples. This is a form of [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 16 August 2012, Signatures: 29
• remove the barriers to pensions
  Pensions have been disincentivised by Brown's tax grab. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 8 August 2012, Signatures: 5
• Equal Marriage Rights regardless of gender or sexual orientation
  We petition the government to pass legislation that establishes equal rights to marriage, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 5 August 2012, Signatures: 758
• Equal rights for fathers
  Under the current system fathers are treated as second-class citizens. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 4 August 2012, Signatures: 285
• Give both parents equal rights and responsibilities towards their children.
  Shared parenting needs to be the default position for separated parents. One parent should not be able to act on their own to determine a child’s future. Both parents should work together unless one is unfit to do so. Good parents should not be [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 4 November 2011, Signatures: 762
• Shared benefits for shared residence
  Shared Residence via court order declares that all parenting is shared and each parent has equal rights [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 1 May 2015, Signatures: 26
• Law of the Rights of Mother Earth - UK
  We, the undersigned, believe that humans and the planet are deserving of equal rights. On October 15th 2012 Bolivia became the first country to recognise this formally by introducing the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth. We call upon the UK [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 22 May 2015, Signatures: 27
• Lets get the law changed so that people living with Down Syndrome has the same equal rights as any body else!!
  We would like to see a change in law were people living with Down Syndrome are given the same equal rights as to everybody else. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 18 September 2014, Signatures: 781
• Resident parents to provide proof of receipt of payments
  Recipient's of Child Maintenance must be asked to provide proof that payments have not been received, as well as the payee providing proof that payments have been made directly via Standing Order. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 23 June 2015, Signatures: 24
• Under 18's to be on the same wage as over 18's
  I am a strong believer in equal rights between people of all ages, genders and races. What I do not agree with is the fact that some employees offer and advertise a job with a set wage for different ages. If everybody is doing the same job then why [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 26 June 2015, Signatures: 5
• Stop discrimination in courts against unmarried mothers and their children.
  The proportion of children born to unmarried mothers equalled 47.5% in 2012 and due to social and economic reasons this number is on the rise. More and more couples are choosing to cohabit and have children rather than waste money on a costly [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 3
• Equal rights for unmarried mothers.
  The proportion of children born to unmarried mothers equalled 47.5% in 2012 and due to social and economic reasons this number is on the rise. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 44
• Reduce the abortion limit to 12 weeks
  As it stands in the UK at the moment, women are allowed to have abortions up to the gestation of 24 weeks! [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 112
• The Commons should not vote on recognising Palestine as a state
  Some MPs are asking that the government votes on recognising Palestine as a state. This should not take place. Israel's role as our political, cultural and military ally should not be weakened by its closest European ally recognising its enemy as a [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 6
• Equal Rights for Trade Union Equalities Reps
  Trade Union Equality Reps perform a vital role promoting Equality & Diversity in the workplace for all employees and also service users, particularly in the Public Sector. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 378
• Support for Fathers
  Ministry of Justice [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 13
• Change the law to give fathers equal rights and access to their children
  Thank you for taking the time to read my petition. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 36
• Take student tutition fees back to £3000 per year. 100'000 signitures needed!
  In 2010 the government made a harsh decision to raise student tutition fees to a staggering £9000 from £3000 it's not hard to work out that this is a triple increase but why? There is no explanation. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 15
• Compulsory Equal Rights, Mental Health and Rape Culture Education for Schools
  I would like the government to make education on equal rights, mental health and rape culture compulsory in all schools in the UK. It scares me how people are leaving secondary school as uneducated on real world problems as they started. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 46
• Homeless Soldiers - Make The Armed Forces Covenant Law
  The government created the Armed Forces Covenant 4 years ago, to protect and help our ex service personnel, however it is still not Law. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 2685
• Malaysia should be warned about its membership in the Commonwealth
  Malaysia, as a member of the Commonwealth of Nations has agreed to abide by the Harare Declaration. Which states: "liberty of the individual under the law, in equal rights for all citizens regardless of [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 8
• UK Government - Stop Arming Israel!
  Calling for an embargo on the sale of all UK equipment to and purchases from Israel as well as the breaking off of all military contacts. Israel's latest military attack on Gaza is only made possible through the continued financial, military and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 6
• Equal Rights For Fathers - By Law
  At the moment there is no legal backing for fathers to see their children. This petition is to introduce or amend the current law so it makes it clear that fathers have the same rights as mothers. A parent is a parent whether a that be a dad or a [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 24 January 2016, Signatures: 3019
• Introduce processes that speed up the resolution of disputes within Family Law
  Justice for Children aims to introduce processes that speed up the resolution of disputes within UK Family Law, to help prevent non-essential cases getting to court and to enforce existing court orders based on satisfactory evidence. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 28 February 2016, Signatures: 12499
• Give fathers equal rights and legal aid for family court cases
  Give fathers equal rights help with legal aid in family court cases and more help and advise for seperated parents also make court cases shorter with more progress [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 9 April 2016, Signatures: 161
• Create equal rights for unmarried parents.
  The laws concerning parental responsibility and how births for unmarried couples are registered is outdated and does not reflect societal changes over the last few decades, where a large percentage of babies born in the UK are to unmarried couples. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 29 June 2016, Signatures: 22
• British people want equal rights to enter the UK with their family
  Citizens from the UAE, Oman & Qatar can travel to the UK with an Electronic Visa Waiver (EVW) document. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 12 August 2016, Signatures: 993
• Have in house training for Maternity care assistants/ Msw's to become midwifes.
  I am a maternity care assistant and have been for nine years. I work 30 hours whilst studing at college. I am trying to further my education to go on to study midwifery. With the fees and bursary being stopped. I dont think I can continue to do my [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 23 August 2016, Signatures: 66
• Give unmarried widows equal rights in registering paternity of their children
  Joana's long-term cohabiting partner and father to her child died suddenly three weeks before the birth of their second child. As they were unmarried, she was obliged to prove her child's parentage upon the father's death. It was a costly and lengthy [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 4 September 2016, Signatures: 2681
• Equal rights for ex-Students who took out a Student Loan before 2006.
  If you took out a Student Loan before 2006 and don't earn enough to pay it back, it stays with you with amassing interest until your 65th Birthday. If you took your loan out after 2006 it's written off after 25 years or when you're about 46 years [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 24 September 2016, Signatures: 8
• GIVE VOTING RIGHTS TO EU NATIONALS LIVING IN UK FOR MORE THAN 15 YRS
  In the Brexit referendum, Brits living abroad less than 15 years and all [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 5 January 2017, Signatures: 95
• Property Council Tax Must be Fair on the Amount of Bedrooms, Not as Now ?
  At this time people pay the same amount from a Two Bed to a Six, this is unfair as a Two Bed does Not Create the same Waste as a Three/Four/Five or Six plus, many properties do extensions adding extra Bedrooms without the Councils knowing, Loft [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 3 February 2017, Signatures: 20
• Redefine Children Act 1989 allow both biological mothers & fathers equal rights
  Parental Responsibility (PR) as defined in the Children Act 1989 (CA 89) has caused so much misery and in extreme cases death of parents and children, there must be an equal 50/50 responsibilities and authorities in relation to the child and the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 8
• Men to be given automatic parental responsibility like women when a baby is due.
  Woman have fought hard for their equal rights and they got it, which is just right, but when it comes to pregnancy men do not have the same rights as women and I aim to change that. I am a father to be and I have discovered that a father has to be [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 6
• Make equal rights the heart of any trade deal with America.
  Soon we will begin discussions with America on a trade deal; we should ensure that equal worker rights based on gender, sexuality, religion and race will be enshrined in this deal. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 16
• I want the Jobcentre on Eastern Avenue in Sheffield to be saved
  The S2 area of Sheffield is full of vulnerable people, the support that is provided from the staff in this building is very positive. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 9
• Automatically grant all UK parents joint custody of their children upon birth
  Update and define our parental responsibility 'laws' to reflect today's social climate. Currently, it is estimated that 40% of all children born in the UK arrive here via unmarried parents. Fathers must be granted equal rights and status to their [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 11
• Fulfill your promise to 2.5 million tenants, give HA tenants Right to Buy now.
  Government have promised to give Housing Association (HA) tenants Right to Buy a year ago. It is only fair HA tenants get equal rights as Council tenants. In my few that promise was the most vote wining promises in the Government manifesto. They owe [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 11
• Ignore the petition 'defining marriage as exclusively between 1 man & 1 woman'
  The UK is a leading country in the world for equal rights. Any petition sought to undermine this is detrimental to our society and any current influence we have in the world. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 45
• Defend a child's right to equality of education for 2year olds
  Petition for equal rights for ALL children's education, regardless of financial background. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 15
• Change the law so fathers get equal rights over their children!
  Fathers should have just as many rights over a child as the mother!! These days and ages men and woman are classed as equals so where their children are concerned then so should shared parental rights be equal!! Unless there is very good reason. not [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 19
• Same sex married couples should be able to divorce on grounds of adultery
  When the UK Government welcomed same sex marriage and updated the Marriage Act accordingly, they neglected to sufficiently update the divorce law. We are now living in a country where same sex couples cannot divorce under the grounds of adultery. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 22 May 2018, Signatures: 8
• Abolish PIP assessments in England
  Disabled people will not have to go through "unnecessary" medical checks to claim benefits under Scotland's new social security system, according to the minister in charge. Disabled people should have equal rights in England. PIP assessments should [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 3 November 2018, Signatures: 15