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Iceland scandal over MPs' crude and sexist bar talk
Source: BBC
Iceland scandal over MPs' crude and sexist bar talk
By Laurence Peter
BBC News
3 December 2018
There are calls for several Icelandic MPs to resign after they were recorded using crude language to describe female colleagues and a disabled activist.
Icelanders were especially shocked that the MPs' targets included ex-MP Freyja Haraldsdottir, a disabled woman and well-known disability rights activist.
Iceland has long been seen as a beacon for women's rights and has a female prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir.
Four Centre Party MPs, including an ex-PM, apologised for the crude language.
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By Laurence Peter
BBC News
3 December 2018
There are calls for several Icelandic MPs to resign after they were recorded using crude language to describe female colleagues and a disabled activist.
Icelanders were especially shocked that the MPs' targets included ex-MP Freyja Haraldsdottir, a disabled woman and well-known disability rights activist.
Iceland has long been seen as a beacon for women's rights and has a female prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir.
Four Centre Party MPs, including an ex-PM, apologised for the crude language.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46428380
Reykjavik protest - the placard says "This parliament is a shocker"
