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Yorkshire and the Humber Labour MEP, Linda McAvan, marked World Parkinson’s Day by launching the Parkinson’s Disease MEP Support Network today, April 11th. The ‘Pledge for Parkinson’s’ took place in the European Parliament today with MEPs vowing to raise awareness for people with Parkinson’s and to work to in ...

To view Linda's March ebulletin as a PDF please click here. Women remain worse paid than men Many of you will know that March 8th is International Women’s Day but this month has seen more than the usual array of celebrations and campaigns across Europe. March 2nd was the second European Equal Pay Day which exists to raise awareness o ...

Almost 200 women from across Yorkshire and the Humber gathered yesterday for Linda McAvan’s International Women’s Day Dinner which raised over £7,000 for Practical Action’s Hitting Hunger Hard campaign. The money will go towards helping almost 100,000 people in the rural state of Kassala, Sudan meet their food needs. ...

On International Women’s Day, Linda has joined other Labour women MEPs to support growing calls for EU wide quotas for women on company boards. A statement, signed by all of Labour's women MEPs said: “We have tried to go down the self regulation route but companies are simply not making the necessary changes fast ...

Click here to view the pdf version of Linda's February ebulletin. Take A Step this Fairtrade Fortnight Monday marked the beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight, which is two weeks of celebrating and raising awareness of Fairtrade in the UK. This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight message is to Take A Step towards Fairtrade, whether it’s buy ...

As part of Fairtrade Fortnight, Yorkshire and Humber MEP, Linda McAvan, wants to know what your favourite Fairtrade products are. Today marks the beginning of the two week celebration of Fairtrade and Linda, who set up and chairs the Fairtrade group in the European Parliament, is inviting Twitter users to share their favourite Fairtrade product ...