RT @8RosarioSanchez: Thank you to my FiLiA teammate, Sara, for interviewing me for a podcast. As always, thanks to @FiLiA_Charity for having me! Apologies for the noise. I was at my local park (for my 1 hour a day) surrounded by the usual gang: ...
𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA meets: CAME Women and Girls who talk about breast ironing - a traditional practice that many Cameroonians do not talk about ...
Very please that Raquel's piece is on the front page of @TFeminista_ The FiLiA version here: FiLiA Statement on the Indefinite Postponement of the Reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 https://t.co/DK8Y1g... https://t.co/wTjpZe...
Disgusted to hear DCC Sara Glen of @HantsPolice concern that warm weather will lead to an increase in #DomesticAbuse Its male violence that causes abuse not #lockdown not warm weather #NameTheProblem You should know better #NoExcuse
𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA meets: Sam Walshe who speaks about the impact of being exploited into street prostitution as a teenager. https://t.co/1FtUkV...
𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA meets: Kathleen Barry Kathleen Barry is a feminist, sociologist and internationally recognised human rights activist. ...
RT @daanistan: Look! It’s my mama! @simisadafkamal https://t.co/WajBcp...
Sign health provides important support around domestic abuse to the deaf community - great news that it’s now nationwide https://t.co/fuB49y...
*** FiLiA STATEMENT *** FiLiA Statement on the Indefinite Postponement of the Reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 by Raquel Rosario Sanchez https://t.co/DK8Y1g...
FiLiA Statement on the Indefinite Postponement of the Reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 — FiLiA
*** NEW FiLiA GUEST BLOG *** FEMINIST SELF-DEFENSE, THE SELF, AND THE 'BUBBLE' By Aline Rossi, Brazilian radical feminist, founder of the blog Feminismo Com Classe, and co-founder member of the digital magazine QG Feminista. https://t.co/BYBKbe...
FEMINIST SELF-DEFENSE, THE SELF, AND THE 'BUBBLE' — FiLiA
We’re pleased to see @CommonsHomeAffs discussing Covid and Domestic Abuse https://t.co/WkM36C... great points from @nicolejacobsST @annelongfield and @VictimsComm we need women centred, funded specialist services to respond to this ongoing crisis ...
Listening to the Victims Commissioner on the BBC. It's really important when talking about prostitution during this time that we are clear in our demands for EXIT programmes, rather than a sticking plaster which risks throwing Women to the wolves ...
*** NEW FiLiA PODCAST *** FiLiA introduces our Spokeswoman: Raquel Rosario Sánchez, who became Spokeswoman for FiLiA on 25 November 2019, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today, we broadcast our first podcast with ...
FiLiA introduces our Spokeswoman: Raquel Rosario Sánchez — FiLiA
'But the group, which is commonly mistaken for a women's charity, has been condemned for distributing advice "likely to increase risk [of abuse] rather than decrease it".' https://t.co/L9nCl1...
'Unsafe and inaccurate' domestic violence safe zone advice could harm victims
Looking forward so much to seeing everyone again in October. Tickets on sale now. Sisterhood and Solidarity https://t.co/RIYqfw... https://t.co/7cHqeE...
*** LATEST FiLiA GUEST BLOG *** WHAT IS FEMINIST RESEARCH AND WHY DO WE NEED IT? 'Using a feminist approach to research a local anti-austerity activist culture revealed crucial insights about women’s experiences of activism. ' says Emma Craddock ...
WHAT IS FEMINIST RESEARCH AND WHY DO WE NEED IT? — FiLiA
*** LATEST FiLiA PODCAST *** Simi joins FiLiA to discuss her experience and work as part of the Every Woman Treaty - a campaign to end violence against women and girls worldwide. FiLiA meets: Simi Kamal https://t.co/aGQ9h2...
'Police with loudspeakers urged them to disperse, as Poland's lockdown bans gatherings of more than five people, but no arrests or fines were reported.' https://t.co/NGfUtp...
Women in Poland protest draft law curbing abortion rights
'We, the undersigned women’s organisations express strong concern and register our protest against the violations of civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, by the Narendra Modi-led Union government' https://t.co/5ozpED...
Women Demand End to Targeting of Dissidents and Minorities
Manzi said that despite the quarantine, now is not the time to stay quiet." "We need to think of different ideas, rather than taking to the streets" @Coordinadora8m https://t.co/6lONDa...
How quarantined Chileans are keeping their protest movement alive
COVID-19 has a new victim: undocumented women in abusive relationships 'They experience a distinctive set of vulnerabilities to abuse that are often overlooked, and they have no access to many of the solutions available to other women.' ...
Virus lockdowns put millions of women at risk Without doubt the article contains important information. However, not one mention of the words male, men, man. Not once. https://t.co/gF4w2A...
Virus lockdowns put millions of women at risk
'Assault and coercion were so prevalent that the Justice Department concluded that the New Jersey Department of Corrections and the prison had violated the inmates’ constitutional protections from cruel and unusual punishment.' https://t.co/BaJ1Or...
Inmates at N.J. Women’s Prison Endured Years of Sex Abuse, Justice Dept. Finds
'Across the age groups, working women are consistently getting infected more than their male counterparts, as the table below shows. In some age groups, women are hit almost twice as much as men.' https://t.co/QcI4Do...
Far more women than men are being diagnosed with coronavirus in Wales
'Around the world, organised ultra-conservative movements are looking for ways to use this moment to achieve what they always wanted; fewer rights for women over their bodies.' https://t.co/fnoeLy...
Some governments are using coronavirus to restrict women's rights
'The international community should call for the release of all women’s rights activists, safeguarding of women’s right to freedom of expression and association, and for the complete abolition of the male guardianship system' @HZayadin #ليش_ما_بلغت ...
Saudi Women Are Speaking Up Online
https://t.co/WjSbdC...
On Set With Seven Veteran Actresses
'The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recorded further declines in the number of couple’s opting for religious ceremonies and in overall marriages among opposite-sex couples in 2017.' https://t.co/RX5mGp...
Average age for heterosexual marriage hits 35 for women and 38 for men
"Until the 1970s, employers' exclusion of black women from better-paying, higher-status jobs with mobility meant that they had little choice but to perform private domestic service work for white families," https://t.co/0QN6Wc...
Black women are the hardest hit by the coronavirus unemployment crisis, new survey data shows
'The show also glosses over some unpleasant realities when it implies that racism was not a fundamental element of Schlafly’s politics, but rather a tactical position that emerged over time' https://t.co/zFFJ4D...
Hollywood Casts A Very Flattering Light On Right-Wing White Women
'Labour has called on the British Government to ease the restrictions in Northern Ireland and allow women access to abortion pills following an e-consultation or call with a doctor.' https://t.co/3uSDo2...
Women in north 'should be allowed to take abortion pills at home', Labour says
Council of Europe statement on the duplicitous move by Poland's Parliament to remove Women's Rights. 'I urge the Parliament to reject both these bills' says @Dunja_Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. https://t.co/4ViBi3...
Commissioner urges Poland’s Parliament to reject bills that restrict women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights and children’s right to sexuality education
Powerful, upsetting read. Sisterhood and Solidarity to A https://t.co/qIYp6M...
'Many of the women we work with are dependent on their husbands’ incomes, typically low paid day labour that is hardest hit by lockdowns and the economic fallout from coronavirus.' say @WomenforWomen https://t.co/6emeg4...
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