RT @GlobalFundWomen: βThe favela is not the problem. The favela is the city. The favela is the solution.β Today should have been Marielle Franco's 41st birthday. We celebrate her advocacy for human rights & struggle against police brutality in ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: ππΆππΆπ π£π’ππππ¦π§π¦ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA meets: Tegan Larin - the importance of listening to survivors and why prostitution is different from a job at ...
ππΆππΆπ πππ’ππ¦ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Estimated 600 pregnant women are held in prisons in England, and about 100 babies are born inside By Geraldine Brown and Rona Epstein ...
RT @rafaellacj: If anyone disillusioned by ActionAid, NSPCC etc wants to support a grassroots cooperative run by & for refugee women, read this. @TestimonyTailor were at @FiLiA_charity in Bradford last year. https://t.co/q9Cpkz...
What did you enjoy most about the conference? Tickets available now. https://t.co/zp94QS... https://t.co/yA1qNJ...
'As above, the protection of freedom of expression provision is finely balanced. A sensible general provision should include the protection of speech directed at ideas rather than people, either individuals or groups.' https://t.co/ch5GpP...
FiLiA Responds to the Hate Crime and Public Order Bill (Scotland) β FiLiA
*** πππ§ππ¦π§ ππΆππΆπ π£π’ππππ¦π§ *** Tegan Larin is a member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia (CATWA), a feminist organisation that works to end all forms of sexual exploitation of women. https://t.co/DHtiSg...
FiLiA meets: Tegan Larin β FiLiA
*** πππ§ππ¦π§ ππΆππΆπ πππ’π *** In discussions about biological sex, gender and queer theory, female academics around the world have faced threats, discipline, or censorship for articulating βgender critical viewsβ. https://t.co/vtPxfk...
'Porn has managed to escape the ramifications of the #MeToo movement, a conversation about violence against women in the mainstream entertainment industry.' https://t.co/ce1sEb...
CESE Online Global Summit: How porn industry targets marginalized women and subjects them to sexual slavery
'Their partnership is part of a quiet revolution that has slowly taken hold in the country, where many doctors and nurses were known to ridicule, scold, insult and otherwise humiliate patients when they gave birth.' #Mexico https://t.co/CTgBmR...
In Mexico, Womenβs Rights Activists Fight to End Violence During Childbirth
'The Council of Europe has said it is alarmed that Polandβs rightwing government is moving to withdraw from a landmark international treaty aimed at preventing violence against women.' #Poland https://t.co/7UmE0V...
Council of Europe 'alarmed' at Poland's plans to leave domestic violence treaty
"This lack of childcare is destroying womenβs careers, they are being made redundant, they are being forced to cut their hours, and they are being treated negatively all because they are picking up the unpaid labour" Joeli Brearley, @PregnantScrewed ...
Government easing work from home guidance 'completely ignores the realities facing women', says charity supporting working mums | The Canary
'Her plight has played out every night for pregnant women across #Kenya, putting some at deadly risk. That has inspired a local doctor to create an emergency service, Wheels for Life.' https://t.co/pNlMTh...
Rise in pregnant Kenyan women dying amid coronavirus curfew, experts say
'The biases in the gene pool toward enslaved African women and European men signals generations of rape and sexual exploitation against enslaved women at the hands of White owners' https://t.co/JCpeRH...
A new DNA study offers insight into the horrific story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
'Students wrote about class during Victorian and modern Britain βparticularly poorlyβ with students showing βvery little understanding of what class wasβ.' https://t.co/dkuPCt...
Oxford students' 'remarkably bad' exam answers reveal patronising attitudes and sexism, say professors
'βAccording to the FBI, at any given moment of the day, around 750,000 men are seeking online sex with children,β warns the international childrenβs rights charitable organization Terre des Hommes.' #Philippines #enddemand https://t.co/XsXxnb...
Filipino children most appealing to global online sex predators (1st of 2 parts)
'He speaks of a woman from rural Jharkhand who wanted to terminate her pregnancy because she was a mother of four, but was forced to carry the child. "Basically, we violated her right to #abortion,"' #India https://t.co/GAmOSj...
How nation-wide lockdown forced 1.8 million to continue pregnancy