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42 posts today#152 Helen Joyce on Trans
#152 Helen Joyce on Trans
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...
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 ...
RT @EmmaHPrize: It's time to get your nominations in for the 2021 EHMP and @centreWJ awards https://t.co/leihCG... Spread the word!🥳 ...
RT @EmmaHPrize: @centreWJ We're thrilled to be returning to @FiLiA_charity for this year's celebration. Get your tickets here! https://t.co/xJMS3L...
Brave Women resisting #CompulsoryHijab @AlinejadMasih thank you for amplifying Women's voices. https://t.co/ohYz5m...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
RT @women_people: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Fast delivery. Gorgeous necklace. Excellent value.' Suzanne. And £5 from each sale goes to @FiLiA_charity https://t.co/4WPlKZ...
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 ...
Consciousness Raising Workshop 2
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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 ...
Empowering women in Myanmar to exercise sexual and reproductive health rights and choices in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic - Myanmar
“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...
Impact of COVID-19 on Women Rights Organisations: A Call for Global Alliance to Support Women Rights Organisations [EN/AR] - World
'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.' ...
Government vows to uphold free speech in transgender treatment debate
'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...
How Two Community Support Organizations in Colombia are Helping Women Forge Their Own Narrative
'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 ...
Palestine Authority must legislate against domestic violence, rights groups say
'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...
Bengal Village Reeling Under Water Shortage; Women Block Highway in Protest
'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 ..' ...
Leading UK domestic violence charity hit with racism allegations from its staff
'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...
Domestic abuse of older people - House of Lords Library
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...
After Sarah Everard’s murder, police must take flashing more seriously
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 ...
Inspectorate to review Garda handling of domestic abuse reports
'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...
OPINION: Findings from UN Women, KNBS-backed study on how media frames GBV, femicide are worrisome - Citizentv.co.ke
“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...
Some 22 women in 1.5 years fell to death in suspicious cases - Turkey News
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...
"We cannot, as a society, continue down this path and remain a free society.” https://t.co/wNT6rL...
RT @HWistrich: Murder cases reopened in wake of Sally Challen appeal https://t.co/3J8784...