Sara Sharif, Netball, Disability stigma, 80s egg donors

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have been found guilty of her murder after subjecting her to "horrific suffering" for more than two years. Sara Sharif was described by her headteacher as a much loved pupil, a cheerful little soul who would sing to anyone who would listen. But the authorities failed to realise that she was being tortured by her father, Urfan Sharif, and suffered what the court heard was a daily living hell. Anita Rani talks to Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner for England and Wales, and Aisha Gill, Professor of Criminology at Bristol University, about why 15 opportunities to save Sara were missed.

IVF is one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. Thanks to its invention, over 390,000 babies have been born in the UK since 1991. 70,000 of which used donor eggs, sperm, or embryos. Elaine Lee was one of the first women in the UK to donate her eggs. She tells Anita about the process then, and what it was like to be one of the first women to donate back in 1987.

This morning it was announced that Baroness Sue Campbell will join England Netball as Chair of their Board. Previously she was credited with taking women's football from niche to mainstream. During her seven years as director of women's football at the Football Association, the number of women and girls playing football doubled, the number of people watching the game quadrupled and there has also been a significant increase in the number of women and girls taking up coaching and refereeing. Baroness Sue Campbell joins Anita to discuss her new role along with Fran Connolly, England Netball CEO.

How do you tackle the stigma and violence faced globally by women with disabilities? Anita talks to Katrina Scior, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Stigma Studies at University College London, who this week is launching a self-reporting survey tool to help prevent discrimination. The project is led by UN Women and the UN Development programme in four places: Moldova, Pakistan, Gaza and West Bank and Samoa.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

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0:49.4	Good morning and welcome to Woman's Hour.
0:53.9	This morning we will go back to the early days of fertility treatment and hear a personal story about a woman who donated her eggs to help other women conceive in the early 80s.
1:01.3	How many of you played, or maybe you still play, Netball?
1:05.3	I was a centre and then never quite had the growth spurt to pursue it further.
1:09.0	But the question this morning is, will
1:10.9	netball ever get the glory that football receives? Well, it might, as Baroness Sue Campbell
1:17.3	takes over as chair of the board of England netball. And how do you tackle the stigma,
1:23.1	discrimination and violence faced globally by women with disabilities? We will be discussing this later in the program.
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