Harris Britain information guidelines Harris Britain

Keira Knightley, Naomie Harris & Industry Figures Join Calls For Independent Authority To Tackle Bullying In UK Film & TV

Reading now: 506
deadline.com

The chorus of calls for an Independent Standards Authority (ISA) that tackles bullying and harassment in UK entertainment is growing louder.

Keira Knightley, Naomie Harris and several high-profile industry figures are among the those supporting a cross-industry group working to create the new body.UK Times Up, the British wing of the U.S.

anti-harassment and assault body, first called for its creation, developing a framework in collaboration with law firm Fieldfisher that protects freelancers, self-employed workers and those on short-term contracts.

It is now working with Creative UK to meet with different media stakeholders over the proposal.In a statement released today supporting the project, Knightley said: “For anyone to fulfil their creative potential there cannot be fear or disrespect or any kind.

Read more on deadline.com
The website meaws.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

02.06 / 12:31
homosexual Pride Guilty Until Proven Innocent: A Gay Refugee’s Confrontation With America
ASYLUM A Memoir & Manifesto By Edafe Okporo Many around the world were bewildered by the American actor Jussie Smollett’s rambling testimony during his 2021 trial for a hoax hate crime he staged in 2019, when he asked two Nigerian brothers, Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, to attack and yell racist and homophobic slurs at him on the streets of Chicago. Some Nigerians wondered: By including in his testimony the irrelevant detail of having “made out” with Abimbola — the star witness who testified against him — was Smollett exacting revenge on a man from a country where homosexuality is punishable by not just social alienation, but jail? In his insightful memoir, “Asylum,” the Nigerian refugee and activist Edafe Okporo paints a disturbing picture of exactly how dangerous being gay in Nigeria can be.
DMCA