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International Insider: #MeToo In France; UK Unions; Israel Long Read
Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here in a week that has had a distinctly ‘back to school’ feel to it. We’ve certainly been busy. Read on for the biggest stories of the week …
The country’s film industry has been at the forefront of efforts to foster gender parity thanks to pioneering activist group Le Collectif 50/50 and initiatives such as the festival charter, along with extra state funding for movies hiring women for key crew positions. Since ITV’s devastating retelling of the hundreds of British sub-postmasters falsely convicted due to a faulty computer system, the scandal has bedecked front pages, radio bulletins and websites, dominating the news agenda. As Insider goes to press, the UK government is working on fast-tracking a law that would see the hundreds of yet-to-be-compensated postmasters speedily given money they are owed after more than a decade of neglect, while the former Post Office CEO is now likely handing her CBE back following a petition that garnered more than one million signatures.
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