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23 posts today#160 A Response to the University of Leicester's "Student Sex Worker Policy & Toolkit"
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23 posts today"Russia Is Not Safe for Women. The level of femicide in Russia, even based on the news, is 10 times as high as the worst European indicators. The real situation is worse by an order of magnitude, as only a small part of the murders get to the new." ...
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23 posts todayRT @FiLiA_charity: "Russia Is Not Safe for Women. The level of femicide in Russia, even based on the news is 10 times as high as the worst European indicators. The real situation is worse by an order of magnitude" Lyubava Malysheva #FiLiA2021 | ...
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23 posts todayRT @LabrysLit: Our Labrys Lit book for September is “Under the Udala Trees”, by Chinelo Okparanta. It’s a phenomenal story about lesbian love, identity, and community set in Nigeria. And we’re meeting to discuss the novel on Sunday September 26th, ...
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23 posts today"Women who say they have experienced obstetric violence normally describe situations where they feel their personhood has been disregarded, their voice has not been heard, they have not been properly informed of what is happening to them, they have ...
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23 posts todayRT @FiLiA_charity: "Women who say they have experienced obstetric violence ... feel that their body boundaries have been transgressed without permission." @millihill #FiLiA2021 | 16th-17th October | Portsmouth https://t.co/X6dOC6...
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23 posts todayRT @FiLiA_charity: "Fundamentalists want to control women's minds and bodies, if they haven't killed them. Women worldwide are fighting fundamentalism." @GitaSahgal #FiLiA2021 | 16th-17th October | Portsmouth https://t.co/X6dOC6...
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23 posts today"Fundamentalists want to control women's minds and bodies, if they haven't killed them. Women worldwide are fighting fundamentalism." Gita Sahgal #FiLiA2021 | 16th-17th October | Portsmouth http://www.filia.or...
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23 posts todayRT @FiLiA_charity: "Remembering all we have achieved over 50 years of challenging male violence ... We must not forget what we have made in our powerful movements, so we can carry them to the future." Gill Hague #FiLiA2021 | 16th-17th October | ...
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23 posts todayRT @GitaSahgal: Taliban 2.0 completely different from the original, we are told, but bans on airing music and womens' voices (On tv?) seem to tell us something different. @feministdisent, @FiLiA_charity, @ENoMW https://t.co/TTAl7k...
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23 posts todayCOVID-19 GUIDANCE Please understand we are trying to ensure the conference happens and women get a chance to meet in these crazy and changeable times. #FiLiA2021 https://t.co/WJ7Ion... https://t.co/sWYqfs...
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23 posts today"Often, I feel like I’m offering myself up as a sacrifice. The only thing I have left is my honesty, the feeling of staying true to myself and defending my people, women." Marguerite Stern #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | Portsmouth ...
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23 posts todayRT @FiLiA_charity: "Often, I feel like I’m offering myself up as a sacrifice. The only thing I have left is my honesty, the feeling of staying true to myself and defending my people, women." @Margueritestern #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | Portsmouth ...
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23 posts todayArson attack leaves lesbians in Kenyan refugee camp with nothing
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23 posts todayThanks again to @M_Star_Online for being one of the few news outlets to pick up on the horrendous situation in #Kakuma #refugee camp '#lesbians at Kakuma camp in Kenya at Block 13 ... are in danger, as they have suffered a fourth arson attack this ...
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23 posts todayI was an Afghan refugee – I know acts of kindness make a big difference in a crisis
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23 posts today'From access to education and employment to health, bodily autonomy, and #freedom from forced marriages and persecution – the basic human rights and lives of #women in #Afghanistan are at risk again.' @RabiaNasimi https://t.co/GKoLQU...
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23 posts todayDespite 19th Amendment, Black Women Had to Fight for Vote 'Facing these tactics and suppression, many Black women in numerous towns and cities took action to educate each other, to register and to vote, for example, running suffrage schools ' ...
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23 posts todayA woman is murdered every week in Costa Rica
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23 posts today'Last Monday, at Casa Presidencial, a law was signed that broadened the definition of femicides, so that the penalties will be much stronger against those who end a woman’s life, whether or not they are her sentimental partner.' #CostaRica #Femicide ...
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23 posts todayParliament called on to do more in fight against SA’s rife femicide | Citypress
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23 posts todayThe @UyineneMrwetya1 wants the executive to be held accountable 'What have we done as women that even our very own women in Parliament do not feel the pain, our pain, as women are abused and killed every day?”' #SouthAfrica #Femicide ...
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23 posts todayRT @MeshCampaign: Dear @iugaoffice there’s no confusion. Both incontinence & prolapse mesh harms women. Incontinence mesh tapes suspended in UK since 2018. Also, “being the most studied operation in history” means nothing if most studies don’t ...