People Before Profits Manifesto can be found at: https://www.pbp.ie/ae2022-manifesto/
Family
LGBTQI+
- People Before Profits advocates for:
- Urgent implementation of the LBBTQI+ Strategy Expert Advisory Panel recommendations across the health, education and legal sectors, including self-ID for gender identity and accompanying funding for delivery.
Marriage and Family
- People Before Profits propose:
- Increase statutory maternity pay to a living wage: While unions often negotiate better maternity pay, after the first six weeks of maternity leave, statutory maternity pay amounts at most to £152 a week and often considerably less.
- Abolish welfare reforms and create a new welfare system in line with human rights, available for all who need it: Those caring for children and others; people with disabilities; mental ill-health; long-term sickness; and terminal illnesses.
- An Anti-Poverty Act enshrining in law a commitment to ‘end poverty in all its forms everywhere’.
- There is nothing explicitly in the People Before Profits manifesto that relates to Gambling and Online Safety.
Life
Abortion
- People Before Profits advocates for:
- Urgent implementation of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) recommendations relating to sexual and reproductive health rights, and services; including:
- Commissioning of abortion services locally, including telemedicine [e.g. at home abortion pills] access to medical abortion.
- Age-appropriate, inclusive and scientifically accurate education on sexual and reproductive health.
- Increasing funding for domestic abuse and rape crisis services.
- Urgent implementation of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) recommendations relating to sexual and reproductive health rights, and services; including:
- There is nothing explicitly in the People Before Profits manifesto that relates to assisted suicide.
Justice
- People Before Profits advocates for:
- Equal rights for asylum seekers and refugees: including but not limited to housing, welfare, working and voting, and an end to the policy of ‘no recourse to public funds.’
- Welcome and support refugees fleeing hardship and war across the world. They are opposed to the Tory Government’s Hostile Environment Policies, and Stormont’s implementation of them locally.
- There is nothing explicitly in the People Before Profits manifesto that relates to Human Trafficking or Sexual Exploitation.