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38 posts todayRT @lindamacnst: Focus on femicide: The Nova Scotia shootingsโ connection. #CallItFemicide @meggiewalk @CAN_Femicide @SenatorWanda @FiLiA_charity @johannamayblack https://t.co/c1LfG5...
RT @lindamacnst: Focus on femicide: The Nova Scotia shootingsโ connection. #CallItFemicide @meggiewalk @CAN_Femicide @SenatorWanda @FiLiA_charity @johannamayblack https://t.co/c1LfG5...
FiLiA response to the 2nd reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill 'Migrant women must be recognised equally through this legislation and we must use this as a chance to work together ... to really make a difference in Womenโs lives.' By Sally Jackson ...
FiLiA RESPONSE TO THE 2ND READING OF THE DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL โ FiLiA
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Sunday Closing Speeches - FiLiA 2019 Conference With Laila Hasan, Bracha Barad, Vandana Aparanti, Houzan Mahmoud and others ...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA meets: Simi Kamal, a geographer, social development specialist, and womenโs rights advocate with over 30 yearsโ experience. ...
RT @EVAWuk: Second reading of the #DomesticAbuseBill raises #coronavirus context and need for dedicated funding for domestic abuse and wider #VAWG sector - this must be fast tracked to the frontline and ringfenced for BME and migrant women's services ...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) VANCOUVER RAPE RELIEF AND WOMEN'S SHELTER They are the proof that women won't submit. https://t.co/VPnGk1... https://t.co/DcFby3...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation - FiLiA Conference 2019 With Julie Bindel, Sheela Saravanan, Jennifer Lahl and Renate Klein. ...
iRT @GitaSahgal: Important brief survey for those supporting NRPF. Deadline tomorrow, not sure theyโve circulated womenโs sector, @VivHayes, @SBSisters, @WASTCampaigning ,@Safety4Sisters, @nia_endingVAWG, @SolaceWomensAid . @Imkaan Please do survey ...
RT @Baroness_Nichol: My letter of this morning to Liz Truss MP Minister for Women and Equalities โฆ@ALLIANCELGBโฉ โฆ@fairplaywomenโฉ @EllePalmer1@AngryR... โฆ@BakhshaliyevIbโฉ โฆ@AnneSinnottโฉ https://t.co/4VwEiI...
RT @GitaSahgal: Magnificent. Afghan women challenge theโpeace processโ by bringing the problems of community. Taliban fat cats abroad will face a new young country with different expectations. @feministdissent,@S... @CChristineFair,@Fi... , ...
FILIA's cover photo
With thanks to Linda MacDonald and Linda Sarson for this - Please share https://t.co/4r0qTE...
RT @JoTodd4: We desperately need a high profile campaign like this in the U.K. now more than ever https://t.co/fAdPUK...
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*** ๐๐๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐๐ข๐ *** Women's Homelessness: Finding Safety in the Eye of the Storm COVID-19 and Beyond 'Homelessness can be a cataclysmic experience for vulnerable women' By Michaela Campbell from @Kairos_WWT https://t.co/A3gUEu...
Women's Homelessness: Finding Safety in the Eye of the Storm COVID-19 and Beyond. โ FiLiA
'But, before she could be released, police arrested her in another case. They refused to disclose what the exact charges were against her, or even the material which formed the basis for her arrest.' https://t.co/54sHGc...
India: Charged with anti-terror law, pregnant woman sent to jail
'"The deadliest pandemic for women in our country, more than the coronavirus, is feminicidal violence," said Congresswoman Martha Tagle from the opposition Citizens' Movement party.' https://t.co/zvkR3T...
Murders of women in Mexico rise amid fears of lockdown violence
'On Friday, a group of Nova Scotian feminists wrote a statement that said misogyny and domestic violence were part of the shootingโs narrative.' https://t.co/IUscXO...
'Women have been negotiating ceasefires, opening humanitarian corridors, providing aid and mediating disputes over land and water resources, among other issues. ' @Food4Humanity https://t.co/zfakom...
On the frontline of war, Yemeni women are building peace
'A revered Pakistani televangelist has sparked a fierce backlash from rights activists for saying that the coronavirus pandemic is Godโs wrath upon people because of immodest women.' https://t.co/vyS6jK...
Outrage as Pakistan preacher blames 'immodest' women for Covid-19 - UCA News
'Tag a Life International (TaLI) director Nyaradzo Mashayamombe says during the lockdown, many young women have the burden of ensuring there is food on the table as some men can easily not take responsibility.' @tagalife https://t.co/C0plG5...
Economic impact of Covid-19 on informally employed women
'Violence against women and girls has been a widespread problem in the camps. However, the recent lockdown measures cease all protection activities including access to โchild and woman-friendly spacesโ and gender-based violence case management.' ...
Bangladesh: Covid-19 Aid Limits Imperil Rohingya
'A Jewish girlsโ school has been heavily criticised by the Ofsted chief inspector for airbrushing out a โlarge chunk of historyโ in the reign of Elizabeth I by gluing together pages of textbooks.' https://t.co/p1YDPH...
Womenโs role in history censored for Jewish girl pupils
'It was a historic moment as Gray became the fifth president of the BCF, the first, and to date only, woman to hold the position.' @cyclingweekly https://t.co/8ruCJv...
Long read: The story of 'Madame Gray', who transformed women's cycling - Cycling Weekly
'Southall Black Sisters and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) have launched a legal challenge against the government.' https://t.co/4tTBEJ...
Domestic violence funding legal challenged launched
*** ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ก ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ *** @publiclawcentre and @SBSisters have launched a legal challenge to the governmentโs failure to provide funding for accommodation for domestic abuse survivors during Covid-19 ๐ฆ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฅ๐ https://t.co/U3F74J...
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