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21 posts todayRT @FiLiA_charity: Together we can end male violence against women and girls Join us and global experts for free with this link https://t.co/Og6U7b... https://t.co/JfQBo8...
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21 posts todaySpend time this weekend catching up on FiLiA blogs and podcasts. Amplifying the Voices of Women #childbirth #trans #KurdishWomen #prostitution #domesticabuse #ecofeminism #familycourt #witchcraft #asylum #parentalalienation #cedaw #abortion #feminist ...
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21 posts todayRT @GitaSahgal: Aruna Asaf Ali, a freedom fighter who argued with Gandhi and eventually joined the Communist party. Thanks to @IndianHistory_C for recovering the past. @feministdissent ,@FiLiA_charity,@SB... https://t.co/26tSqt...
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21 posts todayPart of the #FiLiALegacyProject For Women in #Portsmouth #Hampshire surrounding areas 6pm this Monday: Jane Traies and LadyX about Free To Be Me: Stories from the Lesbian Immigration Support Group LISG Book profits for @lisg_manchester Please support ...
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21 posts todayIf we want Port Moresby to rise in the liveability rankings, start by protecting its women | Rosario Sam
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21 posts today'Yet I also know first-hand what it’s like to be covered in bruises under my clothes and trying to hide a black eye with makeup before the morning meeting. Putting on a brave face, going to work, walking into the office – the pain of smiling.' ...
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21 posts todayKurdish women speak out for freedom
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21 posts today“More than 173 women and girls have been kidnapped and 109 are still missing. Many have suffered torture or sexual violence. Afrin’s Kurdish refugees desperately need international aid. " Mira Ibrahim for @GreenLeftOnline https://t.co/dcJ0DK...
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21 posts todayWomen’s groups call for UN peacekeeping force in Afghanistan
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21 posts today“What the Taliban did in the 1990s was bad enough. What will they do now, with a generation of women taught to expect freedom? It will be one of the greatest crimes against humanity in history. Help us save them. Please. Help us save who we can.” ...
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21 posts todayOutrage as 1330 women forced to reveal rape details to claim child tax credits
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21 posts today'“We have warned the Government that the two-child limit is forcing some women to end what would otherwise be wanted pregnancies. Since 2016, the number of abortions performed to women with two or more existing children has risen by 24%' @BPAS1968 ...
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21 posts todayFor Women Under Conservatorship, Forced Birth Control Is Routine
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21 posts today'In the South, forced sterilization was primarily deployed against Black women, and was so widespread that it became known as a “Mississippi appendectomy.” A third of the sterilizations were performed on girls under the age of 18.' @slooterman ...
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21 posts todayBritain’s decision to work with Taliban is ‘kick in the head’, says Afghanistan’s first female mayor
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21 posts today"I would say to that man [Mr Wallace] – would you stop your daughter from having an education? Would you stop your daughter from fighting for her country, for her national identity? For her rights and dreams?" @Zarifa_Ghafari #Afghanistan ...
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21 posts todayHistory of Nursing Times: The 1920s
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21 posts todayWith deep gratitude to our nurses. 'The medical profession in the 1920s was slowly coming to accept that menstruation was not an illness, according to a Nursing Times report of a BMA meeting in Bradford.' Ann Shuttleworth @NursingTimes ...
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21 posts today'Campaigners maintain virginity testing is another form of gender-based abuse like female genital mutilation, honour killings, and child marriages. It is hard to disagree with them.' #VirginityTesting https://t.co/hADnQN... https://t.co/dCgtwG...
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21 posts todayRT @starrcongress: #AutonomousAdminist... of North&East #Syria need to be officially recognized. Revolution of #Rojava, which began on July 19, 2012, has become a spark of hope for humanity. We invite you all to join #hashtag campaign on July 18, ...
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21 posts todayRT @glosswitch: I don't think people accidentally or hysterically portray some women's political / feminist writing as "violent". It is a calculated choice, replicating an age-old repositioning of women you want to smack down (not least as an example ...