RT @NCWLIndia: another incident of a Dalit girl gangraped by five men in #Karnataka has come to light. She was sexually assaulted on her way back home from a tailoring shop. The police have already arrested four. #EndCasteBasedSexua... #LeaveNoDalit ...
RT @IndiaToday: Desperate to leave Afghanistan; women evacuated with red handkerchief as identity; #AfghanWomen robotics team flee Herat; 'Reach' become symbol of hope. Watch #WorldToday with @Geeta_Mohan - https://t.co/jg7jGj... #ITVideo ...
Rebecca Mordan from Scary Little Girls will be compering FiLiA with Maggy Moyo " Women inspire women and where we see women come together, we see power, we hear voice and we feel liberation! We have much to discuss, and these discussions will take us ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: Rebecca Mordan from @ScaryLittleGs will be compering FiLiA with Maggy Moyo "Women inspire women and where we see women come together, we see power, we hear voice and we feel liberation!" Rebecca Morden #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October ...
RT @AlinejadMasih: Do you want to know how Afghan women feel when they have to wear this burka? I interviewed a seasoned journalist, @DelbarTavakoli, who visited Afghanistan and talked to Afghan women in 2012. She says many of them are now petrified ...
RT @JoanMcAlpine: Just when you think it’s safe to move on from politics! …seriously delighted to be nominated as #backbencher of the year in the Holyrood magazine political awards. And in such admirable company! @joannaccherry @JohannLamont ...
#FiLiA2021 Tickets are selling ... we are not far off 1,000 We work to create the space .... an excuse for hundreds of #Women to gather together for a weekend. The rest is up to all of us. There is much to do ... Sisterhood and Solidarity! ...
Winning position for most insulting, misogynist heading. The competition is fierce though. @BBCNews isn't it about time to get this right (or at least improve some) 'death prompted murder arrest' #Sexism #Misogyny #BBCReally https://t.co/QljK4u...
Thank you to the European Network of #Migrant #Women for bringing together the session on #Afghanistan today. If you missed it, catch the recording. Follow ENoMW: https://t.co/j3AWaG... @ENoMW #StandUp4AfghanWome... #FeministSolidarity ...
Keep Milli Hill as Keynote Speaker at Midwifery Conference We should also say that we are pleased to give space to Milli Hill at #FiLiA2021 She will be talking on the Birth and Maternal Care panel Sisterhood and Solidarity! FiLiA Team https://www.ipe ...
Keep Milli Hill as Keynote Speaker at #Midwifery Conference We should also say that we are pleased to give space to Milli Hill at #FiLiA2021 She will be talking on the #Birth and #Maternal Care panel Sisterhood and Solidarity! FiLiA Team https://t.co ...
Maggy Moyo from the Lesbian Immigration Support Group will be compering FiLiA with Rebecca Mordan "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." Audre Lorde #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | Portsmouth ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: Maggy Moyo from @lisg_manchester will be compering FiLiA with Rebecca Mordan "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." Audre Lorde #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | Portsmouth ...
Petition Keep Milli Hill as Keynote Speaker at Midwifery Conference
PETITION: The Coalition for Biological Reality – Australia & New Zealand condemns the hate campaign initiated by New Zealand’s Rainbow Midwives Alliance against respected UK author and midwife Milli Hill. Follow @BiologicalReal1 ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: We’ll be reading stories by lesbians across generations, ethnicities, cultures, classes, and religions. #LabrysLit with Claire Heuchan #LesbianOnly Register: https://t.co/BVh22t... https://t.co/xnHXSe...
"In Ireland we have segued seamlessly from one theocracy to the next. A secret Jesuit Committee drafted our 1937 Constitution and now unelected, unrepresentative groups are remaking our laws. The reason we have adopted the new religion so ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: "In Ireland we have segued seamlessly from one theocracy to the next ... the new religion of gender theory is predicated on misogyny and homophobia, just like the old." Laoise Uí Aodha de Brún @TheCountessIE #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th ...
"We don’t need to flatten all distinctions between us, we don’t need to deny material reality, and we don’t need to set our minds against our bodies. Instead, we need to learn how to listen to each other and learn from each other." Dani Ahrens The ...
RT @HiboWardere: #nofgm today is Saturday. Please. Please help me reach my target. They need toilets . Let's help them. https://t.co/qCPJpE...
RT @FiLiA_charity: We define lesbian as a woman who exclusively experiences same-sex attraction. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, because we’re meeting online. #LabrysLit with Claire Heuchan #LesbianOnly Register: https://t.co/BVh22t...
22 Solidarity Tickets to reach our target of 250 to gift this year, enabling Women to attend #FiLiA2021 who otherwise would not be able to. Please support if you can. Sisterhood and Solidarity! https://t.co/t4fv2F... https://t.co/uuPLhw...
The spirit of Greenham rises again
'That pivotal moment, with a life-changing decision based on political nous and the faith in other women to lend support, was to be the bedrock of the campaign to come.' #GreenhamWomen #Greenham40March https://t.co/TrUXCc...
Afghanistan: Right to ride revolution stops as women face targeted violence by Taliban
'"#Women are burning their #cycling kit and diplomas, erasing social media histories, and erasing themselves to avoid retribution. The worst that can happen is that these women can be killed.' By @kirstenfrattini #Afghanistan https://t.co/cJjvls...
"The ability to tell stories is one of the things that makes us human, and telling our own story is the way we claim kinship with other people. It follows, then, that those whose stories are not told can never fully belong. My work is to make those ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: "Those whose stories are not told can never fully belong. My work is to make those marginalised women’s voices heard." @JaneTraies #FiLiA2021 | 16-17th October | Portsmouth https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/RIqVaN...
Advancing the rights of women manual scavengers
Advancing the rights of women manual scavengers 'Women involved in manual scavenging experienced triple oppression—as members of a #caste involved in manual scavenging, as #women, and as poor people with little or no formal education.' By Sharanya ...
A Year After 'Bharat Bandh', Protesting Farmer Unions Call For A Nationwide Shut Down On September 25
'Members of the Organising Committee said that some 3,000 delegates representing farmers, 18 all-India trade unions, nine women's organisations ...' Also - India: Women, The Farmer, and The Agitator, FiLiA blog by Ritwija Dutta, ...
Time’s Up C.E.O. Resigns Amid Crisis Over Cuomo Ties
“How could @TimesUpNow have allowed itself to jeopardize the safe & powerful space it was building to protect & empower #survivors?” tweeted Alessandra Biaggi #TimesUp https://t.co/mQL16X...
Scotland has a moral duty to criminalise paying for sex if this would reduce demand – Susan Dalgety
'If the Nordic model reduces the demand for paid sex ... then surely the Scottish government has a moral duty to change the law, because the terrible truth is that there will never be #equality between men and #women while sex remains a legal ...
Dark state: At least one rape a day, crime against women on rise in Karnataka
'Statistics from the #Karnataka State Police, available with The New Indian Express, show that 18 women were raped and murdered in this time period, and that crimes against #women are increasing by the year.' https://t.co/GgqTFq...
Fine particle pollution doubles the risk of Alzheimer's disease in Black women
"Our study demonstrates that older Black women live in locations with higher levels of PM2.5, and we ask whether their elevated exposure could account for the higher numbers of #Alzheimer's cases. The evidence does reveal a positive association." ...
Joanna Cherry wants people’s assembly on Gender Recognition Act
Joanna Cherry [suggests] the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) should be put to a group from a cross-section of society, adding that this would help to de-escalate rising acrimony over the proposed reforms.' https://t.co/NzJhMv...