"We, Algerian actresses, unite today to say enough to violence and killings of women. We are calling for more awareness and mobilisation to stop this violence." Last year there were some 7,000 complaints of violence against women. #SexNotGender ...
Solidarity with women in Poland, where the government has effectively criminalized abortion. #WyrokNaKobiety #OstraJazda https://t.co/tlDJqR...
Some Iranian women’s rights activists say significant challenges hinder #MeToo cases. If an accuser fails to meet the high standard of proof for rape, she can then be accused of adultery. #SexNotGender https://t.co/NbrFmW...
Why aren't 60 year-old women suddenly realizing that they are men after having children? It's infuriating to realize society hates women so much that they believe women are whatever men say we are: a fantasy, not independent humans. #SexNotGender ...
The guitar was good for a woman, it was argued, because orchestral instruments “threatened the concept of her ‘natural’ subservient role" and because it was made for “a subordinate role as an accompanying instrument.” #SexNotGender ...
Thousands of girls have been subjected to female genital mutilation during a month long “cutting season” in west Kenya. Every day for almost four weeks roughly 100 girls have been pushed to undergo FGM. #NoFGM #SexNotGender https://t.co/jSL8sF...
"Cis" is a slur, a means of further othering women, a way of forcing women to disassociate from ourselves so men can control us. #SexNotGender https://t.co/IdpNyC... https://t.co/jOWTXd...
A 6 year-old girl in India was raped, murdered, and set on fire. Male violence is the scourge of the world. Rest in peace, sweet girl. 💔 #SexNotGender #Hoshiarpur https://t.co/km02vb...
“No ‘day of memory’ has been introduced in any European calendar,” writes Federici. The victims’ history can’t “be buried in silence unless we want their destiny to be repeated, as is already happening in many parts of the world.” #SexNotGender ...
He was previously arrested earlier this year on child pornography charges. This might have been prevented. https://t.co/XQUJye...
“Do I still have ovaries? Can I still have kids?” a 28-year-old woman asked a nurse as she awoke from surgery, chained to a bed. #SexNotGender https://t.co/2VqBuO...
A 52-year-old Italian man wanted in Germany on suspicion of carrying out 160 rapes and sexual assaults, mainly on underage girls, including his own daughter, has been arrested across the border in France. #MVAW #SexNotGender https://t.co/pYlIyi...
"Recognising street prostitution as a form of adult sexual exploitation means that the council acknowledges that many women who sell sex are coerced and are not in a position to make a free and informed choices." #EndDemand #SexNotGender ...
975 rape cases were recorded between January to September, including 208 gang rapes. More than 630 rape cases took place between April and August. #MVAW #SexNotGender https://t.co/xy2frf...
German-Iranian women's rights activist Nahid Taghavi has been arrested in Iran and being held in solitary confinement at Tehran's notorious Evin prison. The jail has been dubbed Evin University because of the number of academics detained there. ...