RT @WiB_London: In the UK, there has been a rise in domestic violence incidents directly linked to the #COVIDー19 outbreak. Today we stand in solidarity with women affected by sexualised and domestic violence, especially as many have to self-isolate ...
RT @WomanchesterMMN: One of our @WomanchesterMMN sisters is spending her #lockdown time creating some more beautiful #HeartsForMurderedW... - let us know if you want to join us, and we can share how to make them @CountDeadWomen @JeanHatchet ...
Tuesday, April 7, in Saint-Quentin a 45-year-old woman was killed by her companion. This is the 25th femicide since the beginning of the year. Emmanuel Macron, protect the women https://t.co/scZhOx...
RT @SophieRunning: I’ll be on @BBCWomansHour this morning to discuss the female financial crisis - why women & girls are partic vulnerable to the economic fallout of #corona & what we’re asking government to do about it. If you can, please ...
FiLiA is a Women-Led Volunteer organisation. Support Women to attend our annual weekend conference by becoming a Friend of FiLiA from 1 / month Sisterhood and Solidarity https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/6uiva9...
'Across the state, women are hanging signs that read "Justice For Anapaola" from window, gates and doors.' https://t.co/4LTDSI...
During Pandemic, Activists From Home Protest Femicide
Women's shelters in Turkey's Kurdish regions forced to close after spike in demand following lockdown https://t.co/wB0eKz... https://t.co/2fYXFt...
'According to Vice-Prosecutor General Martha Janeth Mancera, her office registered 37 cases of femicide since the beginning of the year, almost one third of which took place in the past two weeks.' https://t.co/3UKG1I...
Third of this year's femicides in Colombia happened during quarantine: prosecution
Domestic and Sexual Violence Helplines thanks to @womensgrid https://t.co/JypwJW... https://t.co/LK7uJo...
'in 1888 the mostly female match makers went on strike over their working conditions, and forced the company to back down following a vociferous campaign, later to become known as the Matchgirls strike.' https://t.co/SBzKGu...
The demolished Bryant & May Testimonial fountain
'female protesters being publicly exposed by police officers, police officers conducting gloveless strip searches of arrested female protesters, using pens to spread female protesters legs open, rape/gang rape committed by officers' ...
Hong Kong in the #MeToo era
'over 60 immigrant women imprisoned at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, have gone on hunger strike demanding the immediate release of vulnerable people, humanitarian visas to detainees, and a moratorium on deportations and ...
Immigrant Women Launch Hunger Strike in Tacoma, WA as COVID-19 Cases Rise in Immigration Jails
Women sue Dutch Catholic order over forced labour claims 'The women, who are now in their 70s and 80s, say they were forced to work in laundries and sewing and ironing rooms under threat of punishment, against their will and without wages' ...
'Crises on the scale of COVID-19 bring devastation, but they can also provide a platform for radical social change and the chance to "build back better." COVID-19 could be the watershed we need to upend the systems that hold girls and women back.' ...
Why Coronavirus Could Be a Major Setback for Women's Rights
Women and young people bear brunt of business shutdown 'The IFS estimated that on the eve of the crisis, women were about one-third more likely than men to work in a sector that has since shut. ' https://t.co/ugkE6s... https://t.co/DsiAIQ...
'“policies still commonly recommended in IMF surveillance and lending programmes, especially fiscal consolidation, regressive taxation and labour flexibilisation, have exacerbated the feminisation of poverty.”' https://t.co/IfSbfi...
UN holds Pakistan to account for IMF programme impacts on women - Bretton Woods Project
'while home may be the safest place to protect ourselves from the virus, it is certainly not a safe place for women and children who are indefinitely trapped with a perpetrator of abuse. ' https://t.co/0Nc8bt...
Women's Aid launches campaign to highlight heightened risk of domestic abuse during lockdown
'“Since Israel’s establishment, motherhood has been the mission of the Jewish woman. It’s axiomatic, the point of departure, the cornerstone of her place in society,” says Dr. Sharon Geva' https://t.co/dzUl9b...
The women who dare not having children in procreation-obsesse... Israel
'Suffragettes, spies and groundbreaking sculptors are just some of the pioneers chosen to be commemorated in London.' https://t.co/cFUAJp...
6 new blue plaques honouring amazing women are coming to London
'Coronavirus lockdowns have brought a surge in reports of domestic violence in the Middle East, women’s groups have said, warning hard-won gains in protection for victims are at risk.' https://t.co/9BZXaQ...
Seek help, say Middle East women's groups as domestic violence surges
'Red states are shutting down abortion clinics, determining that the health care they provide is not essential. Yet gun stores and shooting ranges remain open as a supposedly essential industry. ' https://t.co/77qqpR...
In Red States, Abortions Aren’t ‘Essential’ but Guns Are
'In March this year, the Lok Sabha passed a bill to extend the upper limit for permitting abortion from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks for special categories of women which includes rape survivors, victim of incest, differently abled and minors' ...
Kerala HC allows 14 Year Old Rape Victim’s Plea for Abortion Of 24 Week Old Pregnancy - India Legal
30 kgs of rice, a freeze on rent, and $25 Then what? Forced back into prostitution the moment the restrictions are lifted. We need exit programmes, and now is the time to implement them globally. https://t.co/4jnxmM...
Bangladesh vows help to sex workers hit by coronavirus
BAME groups hit harder by Covid-19 than white people, UK study suggests 'The study is thought to be the first analysis of its kind anywhere in the world looking at the ethnic breakdown of cases of the virus.' https://t.co/JQ0t6m...