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11 July 2021

 

FiLiA

42 posts today

RT @GreenhamWomen: 🔥 'My memories are of wood smoke and women. Women of all ages, shapes and sizes.' 😍Thank you Jane for sharing your memories with us 👉🏿https://t.co/NR70... https://t.co/v57zTL...

July 11th @ 3:24 pm |

FiLiA

42 posts today

RT @GreenhamWomen: 😖 'That was the first time I experienced brutality against women by someone in uniform' Caroline, Anne and Betty - best known for work during the Miners’ Strike and Women Against Pit Closures - share their memories of ...

July 11th @ 12:59 pm |

FiLiA

42 posts today

RT @genspect: Genspect advisor & founder of the UK’s Transgender Trend @cwknews recently hosted a @FiLiA_charity podcast episode interviewing two #Genspect mothers about their experience parenting gender-questioning sons. #AVoiceForParents ...

July 11th @ 12:46 pm |

FiLiA

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RT @FiLiA_charity: We are excited to share the importance of a feminist lens when addressing sexual violence and abuse at this important event. Join us for FREE using this link https://t.co/Og6U7b... https://t.co/IT5083...

July 11th @ 12:00 pm |

FiLiA

42 posts today

RT @PankhurstEM: Good morning @HeadwayUK, what a day, I hope you are excited for the final tonight! It has been a couple of months now and I am still waiting for you to comment on your promotion of prostitution as a therapy for disabled men. Will you ...

July 11th @ 11:42 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

RT @Wecantconsentto: The law has just changed to make it clear that you cannot use a 'rough sex' defence. But still men will try - and will succeed if the CPS go along with the claim that being strangled to death is a sex act, rather than serious and ...

July 11th @ 11:39 am |

FiLiA

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RT @women_people: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Fast delivery. Gorgeous necklace. Excellent value.' Suzanne. And £5 from each sale goes to @FiLiA_charity https://t.co/4WPlKZ...

July 11th @ 11:28 am |

FiLiA

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RT @Sistah_Space: Sistah Space Were finally able to relax and take a couple hours to celebrate the opening of the first ever Domestic abuse Charity shop of its kind, run by African and Caribbean heritage women to support ALL women. PLEASE JOIN US ON ...

July 11th @ 7:22 am |

FiLiA

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July 11th @ 3:45 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 History of Consciousness Raising and the practical side of setting up a CR group This session is for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic women / women of colour in Portsmouth and surrounding areas only With Claire Heuchan ...

July 11th @ 3:31 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

“With lack of the access to family planning services, I am scared of getting pregnant. I know there are a lot of women out there suffering the same situation like me. We are losing our rights and choices.” #Myanmar https://t.co/h30Vlh...

July 11th @ 3:25 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

'According to a survey published today of over 200 Women Rights Organisations (WROs) across 38 countries, a third of them have had to lay off between one to as many as 10 members of staff. Eighteen have had to close altogether.' ...

July 11th @ 3:19 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

'The Government has vowed to uphold free speech in the transgender treatment debate as it suggested children should be protected from medicalisation.' Nod to K for the link https://t.co/7Wlw92...

July 11th @ 3:14 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

'Despite the implementation of several laws and initiatives to combat the violence that Colombian women face, femicide still runs rampant in the country. An average of nearly three women a day were killed in Colombia in September 2020 #Colombia ...

July 11th @ 3:10 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

'According to the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling, an independent Palestinian NGO, 21 Palestinian women were murdered in 2019 and 37 in 2020, an increase of 176 per cent.' #Palestine #Femicide https://t.co/01w6mz...

July 11th @ 3:03 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

'After repeated complaints to the village panchayat fell on deaf ears, the women of the village finally took to the streets on Friday afternoon and blocked the Malda-Nalagola road. The women sat with placards and empty buckets on the road ..' ...

July 11th @ 2:56 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

'One complainant says they were conflicted about speaking out: “I worry about the implications for the organisation which does vital and lifesaving work, but this issue needs to be highlighted.' https://t.co/rfYNRb...

July 11th @ 2:51 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

On Wednesday 14 July 2021, Baroness Gale (Labour) is due to ask the Government “what plans they have to investigate the nature of domestic abuse of older people; and what support they offer to older victims of such abuse”. https://t.co/ezlJ5j...

July 11th @ 2:49 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

Are we tackling this in the right way? Are we confident that if a woman comes into a police station she is going to be treated in the right way and not dismissed slightly with ‘there is nothing we can do’?’” Baroness Bertin Nod to K for the link ...

July 11th @ 2:30 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

'Survivors' advocates believe gardaí should automatically record whether domestic violence or abuse-related allegation has been made against a serving officer.' #Ireland #DomesticAbuse https://t.co/HEP99b...

July 11th @ 2:24 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

“Mainstream media is still very patriarchal in nature and can be characterised as ‘an elderly man’ chastising ‘errant women; by implying that murder [of women] is a consequence of errant behavior.” by @Rahel_O #Kenya https://t.co/UHF1f0...

July 11th @ 2:18 am |

FiLiA

42 posts today

Powerful words “It does not matter if a woman collapses in a bathroom, was found in a well, or fell from a window or a balcony. Every woman’s death is a suspicious death” Canan Güllü head of @tkdfederasyon #Turkey https://t.co/fcIqaf...

July 11th @ 2:13 am |