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29 posts todayJoin the Call to Ratify the Istanbul Convention — FiLiA
Join the Call to Ratify the Istanbul Convention — FiLiA
𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Join the Call to Ratify the Istanbul Convention 8 years later, the UK Government still fails to ratify the Convention By Robyn Boosey https://t. ...
RT @Abolicion_Prost: Abolir la prostitución es un imperativo inaplazable @rosariocarrace2 ¡Súmate a la campaña de la @Abolicion_Prost por una Ley Abolicionista del Sistema Prostitucional! #LeyAbolicionistaYA ¡ÚNETE! juntas somos más fuertes ...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: Harry Potter books prove UK lockdown hit despite JKR trans rights row https://t.co/RhbOhQ...
RT @julieposetti: But at soon @photograshiori spoke up about her rape - & against her rapist - the torrent of online violence began. I’m honoured to be speaking alongside this extraordinary & extraordinarily brave woman today in an important ...
Sex Buyers, Consumer Rights and Emerging Themes from Online Communities for Men Paying for Sex @8RosarioSanchez from FiLiA speaks at the @ncose online summit. Available from 1pm for 24 hours for free. Have you booked your place yet? ...
RT @artprintspace: 21 and 22 July - Day 1 Court of Appeal Hearing for 3.8 million #50sWomen fighting for #FullRestitution of stolen pensions #BackTo60 #CEDAW #NoDiscrimination @2020Comms @JackieJonesWal1 @FiLiA_charity @ManzurHannah @NexusChambers ...
𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘 - Building Sisterhood and Solidarity - Amplifying the Voices of Women - Defending Women's Human Rights https://t.co/zp94QS... https://t.co/uxLIGK...
*** 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 *** FiLiA meets: Tegan Larin who joins joins Sadia Hameed to discuss her work, the situation in Victoria, Australia, the importance of listening to survivors and why prostitution is different from a job at McDonalds. ...
FiLiA meets: Tegan Larin — FiLiA
Pregnant Women Feel Totally 'Forgotten' With No End Of Lockdown In Sight “You can go and get your hair done, you can go and sit in a pub, but you can’t have your partner with you while you’re having a baby. It’s just not logical,” By @rachelmoss_ ...
One option, omitted from this piece is to end demand by introducing the Nordic Model. 'Halsema has presented four scenarios for the district, which range from reducing the number of brothel windows to moving sex workers to a new location.' #Amsterdam ...
Amsterdam's 'prostitute hotel' plan to uproot red light district
'Although the rules of the zone state that “trafficking, organised crime and coercion will at no time be tolerated,” in practice they are tolerated and allowed to thrive — while simultaneously their existence is denied by officialdom.' By Anna Fisher ...
'From harvesting herring in 1910 to taxi drivers working Glasgow in 1980, Her Century reveals glimpses into the lives of Scottish women over the past 100 years.' #Scotland https://t.co/P1TNgh...
How Scottish women have changed over the past 100 years
'Firstly, we need to believe women. Rather than question the credibility of victims’ stories, we should listen, and investigate them. Secondly, abusers need to be held accountable, and survivors need to be supported through the process.' By ...
If Somali women are strong enough to speak out about abuse, we need to listen
"I slept on buses. I went from one side of London to the other because it was free to travel on the bus then. I didn’t have any money for hand sanitiser or a face mask. It feels for me as a woman that life is one big cycle of abuse.” ...
Starving and sleeping on the streets: The reality of life for women seeking asylum in lockdown Britain
“We, as former black women and women of colour staff at IWHC, have collectively chosen to break our silence to publicly name the institutional racism and bullying we faced, so that it can no longer be wilfully ignored,” https://t.co/EBJHDv...
Women's health organisation accused of 'institutional racism and bullying'
“We were treated like Victorian women having a ‘fit of the vapours’, and I was referred to psychologists rather than gynaecologists.” #VaginalMesh https://t.co/Ar9OH6...
Vaginal mesh implant leaves woman disabled
'Comstock’s agents censored the article, so the newspaper printed the headline, “What Every Girl Should Know,” followed by: “Nothing! By order of the Post Office Department.”' https://t.co/p1gKuE...
2000 Years of Disbelief: Margaret Sanger
'Theoretically rich and strategically nimble, it imagined a course of politics that could take Black women from the margins of society to the center of a revolution.' By @KeeangaYamahtta with @TheBarbaraSmith https://t.co/Uaxukq...
'Women had their own jobs. It gave them an empowerment that they hadn't had before. There was a sense of resentment among men. These murders were initially seen in the lens of putting women in their place. ' #Mexico https://t.co/PYYqhy...
Investigating Mexico’s ‘Femicides’ in ‘Forgotten: Women of Juárez’