Fantastic news - the UK government has supported Eilidh Whiteford MP's bill to ratify the Istanbul convention to combat violence against women. Massive thanks to everyone who contacted your MP and supported the #ICChange campaign. You helped make this important piece of legislation happen! It was well overdue. Maybe if we had more women at Westminster it wouldn't have taken so long. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38343735 More thanks to #MakeVotesMatter for nominating Frances for the People's Democracy Award and everyone who voted. Your votes did matter and she was elected as winner representing #5050Parliament! A nice little bit of 50:50 Parliament campaign news at the start of the festive season. Please all like 5:50 Parliament Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/5050Parliament/ and share our posts and follow on twitter https://twitter.com/5050Parliament - to keep up with all the 50:50 Parliament news. Happy Days! Frances, Hannah, Brian, Collette, Apolline and all #5050Parliament Team