RT @PGtwweets: Lifelong feminist @NicolaSturgeon our @ScotGovFM has opted not to use today's #16Days to send a clear message that the pandemic of male violence against women won't be tolerated in Scotland, that male attitudes & behaviour must ...
Thank you for your courage, Rosie. https://t.co/99eSuo...
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RT @kittysull1: @wornoutmumhack I’m not a party leader but I posted on FB earlier today. Here’s the link to the video with the message You’re Not Alone https://t.co/wg7PAx... https://t.co/X127uX...
RT @JammersMinde: I don’t think any other tweet today has so clearly shown the contempt some women have for other women once they’ve become TRAs. #IDEVAW2020 https://t.co/mnvRqM...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: I’m often asked, why haven’t we ended men’s violence against women? It’s not that we don’t know, but ‘they’ choose not to listen to those who know. I condem violence against those who reject stereotypes attached to their sex. ...
RT @ChrisMcEleny: Last week women were told to get in their box as there was a day we would remember women that had been murdered this week & remembrance wasn’t a competition. Well that day is today and there’s silence from @scotgov Twitter. And ...
Thankfully, no trans people were murdered in UK. Yet an MP chooses to mark #IDEVAW2020 by prioritising those who were not killed over those who were & claim, falsely, that women are safer. It's also a useful way to blame women rather than address ...
RT @JoanMcAlpine: Please take a moment today to remember the thousands of women killed by angry men each year. #femicide is real but not officially acknowledged. In the UK a women is killed by a man every 3 days. Think about it. #IDEVAW2020 ...
"Women’s rights have long been accepted as human rights. The Scottish Parliament now has the opportunity to agree that those rights include being protected from hate." https://t.co/AiU1At...
RT @davecoviddave: ...privileged white men say she should be killed, raped, choked with “girlcock” that’s the understandable response of a desperate minority and its allies. But if a woman says “twaddle” to a pedestrian recitation of one of the ...
This is devastating. This year, Scottish women have been killed by men. Others have been trapped in lockdown with an abuser. The messages that political leaders send matter. The message today is that they will and can ignore #VAWG #WomensRightsAreHum ...
RT @LeedsReSisters: Leeds sisters have been out and about #IDEVAW2020 #16DaysOfAction https://t.co/7ZNcWK...
This year, women have been murdered in Scotland. Would it really cost some MPs so much to acknowledge their lives and their family's pain? Or to pledge to do something? Some actually will be constituents. #IDEVAW2020 https://t.co/OQFT6r...
Even on #IDEVAW2020, this "human rights" org cannot say bear to acknowledge that it is WOMEN'S lives which were lost to #MaleViolence. WOMEN not "womxn" If you erase us as, you are part of the problem. https://t.co/ZDqokh...
"this is evidently there to protect men because it’s hard to think of any circumstance where a woman would be considered a cross-dresser...The... a bizarre and frankly sexist basis to that.” Men going to Rocky Horror have protections women lack. ...
RT @ralirali: @ForwomenScot I've just pledged again. Absolutely furious at SNP led Scottish Government! But - thank you @ForwomenScot - for all your tireless work - So much appreciated! ...
RT @WomenUnitingUK: "Scottish Trans is almost wholly funded by @scotgov so they can hardly be said to be independent. Their lawyers are also funded by Scot Gov. Taxpayers are funding both Scot Gov and STA in trying to fight our case. Meanwhile, we ...
In Switzerland feminist are demonstrating on #IDEVAW2020 to demand a change in the law regarding rape and consent. Currently, it's only rape if a victim can prove violence was used. Sans consentement, c'est un viol https://t.co/UiXJ8g...
RT @anyoldirons: National day against male violence towards women in my mum's town in Catalonia. Each chair is a woman murdered by men in Spain 2020. Very powerful. @CountDeadWomen https://t.co/PiH2ID...
RT @we_are_nina: Deborah Williams died in April, aged 50. She attended hospital after being assaulted but was discharged shortly after midnight. Deborah was vulnerable, at risk in the road. She was found & returned to hospital by ambulance. ...
RT @judgejules75: Oh well, as long as Alyn’s ‘concerns were perfectly adequately assuaged’, that’s alright then. Who cares that women’s concerns have been anything other than assuaged, eh Alyn? What would we know? 😏 #welcometomcgilead ...
If we cannot name #MaleViolence we cannot fight it. #IDEVAW #WomensRightsAreHum... https://t.co/egAJjB...
RT @joannaccherry: Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation. #16days #EndViolenc... #WomensRightsAreHum...
RT @CountDeadWomen: 30 April 2020: Louise Aitchison, 33, was found dead by paramedics in her home in East Kilbride, Scotland. Daryll Paterson, 35, has been charged with her murder. #IDEVAW https://t.co/unYEZ4...
RT @LordLucasCD: @Amnesty was once an organisation that had rock solid, universal principles that it applied to everyone. Even when I thought it was wrong I respected it. Now "We call on media, and politicians to no longer provide legitimate ...
Thank you to those who have already responded to our plea on the back of the attempted intervention in the JR by taxpayer funded Scottish Trans Alliance. Some great new comments! https://t.co/aoeZ5K...
RT @Obsolesence: Scot Gov funded org has Scot Gov funded lawyers to intervene in a case where self-funded from women's purses org is challenging legislation change redefining women by Scot Gov. Why not tie both of @ForwomenScot's arms behind their ...
RT @Equality_FWS: @StirUni Re vacancy Criminology Lecturer. Equalities questionnaire askes for Gender & if Gender identity is same as at birth. Neither of these are protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 and are not described in ...
In which @AlynSmith MP decides to mark #IDEVAW by accusing @WomensPledge of grievously misleading people about GRA proposals and calls lesbian led @ALLIANCELGB "shadowy" and "vicious". Yesterday, we said abuse of women by MPs had to stop. ...
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RT @David_Challen: 3 women a week are killed by men... Men, pay attention: WOMEN lead the way it battling MALE violence. I’ve attended countless domestic abuse conferences/discuss... largely filled with women. If we truly care about women losing ...
RT @CallieMac88: Today is International day of elimination of violence against women. 108 women have been killed in the UK in the last 12 months at the hands of men. The UN have declared #VAW a pandemic. The ongoing violation of women's human rights ...
RT @yatakalam: Wherein the manager of Scottish Trans says recognizing the sex of an applicant for a board position should not be permitted as that would be "revealing intimate details". If this were accepted, women would never achieve equal ...
Reports – Femicide Census
RT @orkneybotanist: @ForwomenScot @HotchkissRhona @scotgov It will not only have a chilling effect on public debate, but academic debate. There are ppl who think what I study (evolutionary and ecological science) is transphobic and too binary, making ...
STA have applied for permission to intervene in our JR. Apparently objecting to the redefinition of women is "hurtful and pointless". We could say the same. Unfortunately, this will mean our costs will skyrocket. https://t.co/secamW...
Ex-women's prison chief quits SNP over Hate Crime Bill and gender reform plans
Good for our @HotchkissRhona Time for the @scotgov and our funded women's orgs to speak out for women and against abuse. https://t.co/UA6bhU...
RT @msjlindsay: Suzanne's hounders will now proceed to either utter silence, behind-scenes bitching, or petty moans about how she's not been cancelled at all as they permitted her to keep breathing, some people still support her, and she didn't lose ...
Today, as on every #IDEVAW, @CountDeadWomen will be tweeting the names of the women killed this year by men. During Lockdown violence against women has accelerated. Yet, too often, this is minimised or ignored. We desperately need political action to ...
RT @GoonerProf: Husbands. Brothers. Boyfriends. Sons. Friends. Acquaintances. Stalkers. Strangers. The one thing that they all have in common is that they are all men who killed women. Men think they are entitled to take the lives of women. #IDEVAW ...
RT @LeedsSpinners: #IDEVAW2020 #IDEVAW #16DaysOfActivism Women in Leeds protesting about Leeds City Councils attitude to prostitution, the inherent violence that it brings and it's effect on all women and girls. #Leeds https://t.co/zTikeI...
RT @David_Challen: The number of women in the UK killed each year by men has remained consistent at between 124 and 168 for the past decade. Women are consistently losing their lives to men. This #IDEVAW I call on men to support women’s voices + ...
RT @hightreebud: @HotchkissRhona @HumzaYousaf For all @HumzaYousaf's promises to listen to stakeholders, why wait until after @ForwomenScot made some really good points to the Committee to come out with this statement? Feels like complete mockery.
RT @MForstater: Don't worry you will only be criminalised for saying men are not women if it is " intended to stir up hatred" https://t.co/dCR9lZ...
We asked yesterday that @scotgov @ScotGovFM and national women's orgs started to step up if they really are serious about defending women from abuse online. We have our doubts, but they could start with some of this. https://t.co/nypmvY...
Scotland has around 400 women in prison. Not hard to see how the #hatecrime bill might mean that number doubles. Meanwhile, the abuse of women - supported by some MPs, MSPs, human rights orgs, etc - will continue unabatted. #womensrightsmatter ...
Yesterday, @HumzaYousaf appeared to claim that there was a third sex. Is this the position of @scotgov and can they identify it? Are they trying to smuggle this idea into law? https://t.co/szighc...
"What I care about fundamentally is the right of women to meet in single sex spaces and assert themselves as a class, a sex class — one that is oppressed by a patriarchal system. By men, even sometimes the good ones." @suzanne_moore ...
RT @susiehawkes: Have we really reached a point where we are potentially proposing giving a group of men out drinking, on perhaps a stag do dressed as women the protection of law if they chose to enter a women’s toilet? 3/10