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39 posts todayThank you to Million Women Rise for organising the #NeverForgotten vigil today 'Together we can end male violence against Women' #16Days #SisterhoodAndSolid...
Thank you to Million Women Rise for organising the #NeverForgotten vigil today 'Together we can end male violence against Women' #16Days #SisterhoodAndSolid...
Thank you to @MillionWomen for organising the #NeverForgotten vigil today 'Together we can end male violence against Women' #16Days #SisterhoodAndSolid... https://t.co/UylWWA...
Women in sisterhood resisting violence in Guatemala | LSE Latin America and Caribbean
'Despite the claims of abuse and the unwillingness of authorities – including police officers present where the fire took place – to save the girls by unlocking the doors, there has been no justice for the girls.' https://t.co/XvhzAs...
RT @JusticeForGaia: 1/16 Please RT & make Gaia part of your #16daysofactivism 📢Follow @JusticeForGaia & take action. She should still be with us💔 #JusticeForGaia means 💥Support for all survivors 💥Fair access to justice 💥Holding power to ...
Message sent from Mina Smallman is read out ... "We need to be LOUDER" #BibaaHenry #NicoleSmallman #NeverForgotten #16Days https://t.co/09q0SR...
At the @MillionWomen vigil 'Together we can end male violence against Women' #NeverForgotten #16Days https://t.co/4b9RcL... https://t.co/EclgpV...
Women's oppression and the epidemic of misogynist violence
'A concerted effort to legitimise the sex trade is also weakening the labour movement’s longstanding opposition to the commodification and exploitation of women’s bodies, sanitising a brutal industry riddled with ... trafficking and murder' #16Days ...
Abortion in Honduras: Interview with Neesa Medina — FiLiA
FiLiA interviews Neesa Medina about the lack of abortion rights in Honduras, one of the four Latin American countries that have the most draconian laws against women freedom. https://t.co/qSO2yo...
Following @CountDeadWomen today and seeing the faces of so many #Women killed by men. Heart-breaking, enraging. Thank you @K_IngalaSmith for your dedication to naming, and to raising awareness of #Femicide Much love xx #16Days 💔💔💔 https://t.co/o7EGlp ...
Another one ... “Following a referral of evidence by Hertfordshire Constabulary, the CPS has now charged David Carrick with a total of 14 alleged offences against four women.” https://t.co/z4ZG1V...
RT @RexDraws: When I was asked to draw this, I knew I couldn’t just draw something in my usual style. I spent HOURS obsessing over it, all the time thinking about the women behind the number. 1/3 https://t.co/oj3oTT...
FiLiA is looking forward to joining Sisters today at the @MillionWomen vigil #NeverForgotten #16Days https://t.co/4b9RcL...
RT @JessDeWahls: I missed out on this beauty at the @FiLiA_charity and now finally got my mittens on it🙌🏼 It’s going to have a proud place in my collection 💚🤍💜 https://t.co/y0TSP9...
RT @raychilled: The lovely new lot of @FiLiA_charity tea towels have been delivered! So today is the last day to buy one at the special pre-order price. https://t.co/CMqdVE... #WrongSideOfHistory... https://t.co/ay6dYf...
“As the numbers increase, so does the risk to women in prison due to MoJ policies that permit some of these prisoners to be housed in the female estate,” Kate Coleman, from Keep Prisons Single Sex, said. Nod to K for the link https://t.co/XjQjTc...
We Need to Talk: Drug Rape in Spain — FiLiA
#FiLiABlog 'I did thank them all in my name and on behalf of my daughters future because I can finally shout that what they did to me at 19 was a crime and because I refuse for my past to be my daughter’s future.' https://t.co/D436pD...
Mesh implant removal costs bill wins cross-party backing at Holyrood
'There was cross-party support for the Bill, which establishes a compensation scheme for women who had removal surgery in the private sector.' https://t.co/NGK7X3...
'Murder every day': Turkish women fearful after treaty exit
'A total of 345 women have been killed since the start of the year, according to the We Will Stop #Femicide Platform. There were 410 women killed in 2020, with dozens found dead under suspicious circumstances.' https://t.co/um2LrH...
‘Victims of the hostile environment’ remembered at vigil outside new women’s detention centre in County Durham
'Women for Refugee Women detention campaign spokesperson Agnes Tanoh, who is also a former Yarl’s Wood detainee, vowed yesterday to continue campaigning against the site.' https://t.co/9jKNra...
Refugee women take the lead in combating gender-based violence
“These women said they’d work with us on the condition that we involved them with any research we did. They wanted anyone who participated [in the research] to know that they would get something back, and what they wanted was human rights training,” ...
Tories accused of failing abused women as domestic violence crimes rise and prosecutions fall
'he ONS reported that an estimated 1.6 million women aged 16 to 75 experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2020.' https://t.co/eRdkdC...
Legalize or Criminalize? Spain’s Prostitution Debate Highlights a Policy Dilemma
'These arguments resonate in Spain, where the national police estimate that 80 percent of women who work in the sex industry are coerced and trafficked from their home countries.' #EndDemand https://t.co/GTROTW...
Benin's groundbreaking new abortion law will save the lives of many women
'#Benin’s new law will provide more women with access to safe #abortion in instances that they may not want, or be able, to continue with a pregnancy.' https://t.co/koxB9l...
Peru is failing in its care of Venezuelan women who survive gender-based violence
“The public space is very threatening for migrant women,” says Karina Dianderas. “This is because of the objectification of Venezuelan women’s bodies. They are looked at and watched all the time, they cease to be people.” https://t.co/GRCwxc...
The Afghan women and children forced to subsist on flour
'Studies have found it is often women who eat “last and least” in nations grappling with war or hunger ... some 60 per cent of the 690 million people currently starving or enduring food insecurity around the world are women and girls.' ...
RT @rwilsongarwood: Sharing a little of my writing today. Please read and join me in remembering Annie Smith, killed by her partner in 1890. I wrote this for you Annie 💜 We remember, and we rage at male violence against women ♀️ #familyhistory ...