๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ 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...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ 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 @nicolejacobsST: The ยฃ76 million announced today by @RobertJenrick is welcome to address the emergency response to domestic abuse and vawg during COVID. I look forward to rolling up my sleeves this week on the details. Govt now needs to address ...
Pleased to see the government listening to specialist organisations, lets hope this happens swiftly and is available for ALL women https://t.co/Q57ir6...
Domestic abuse victims to get priority housing status under new law
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/A0txkB...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA discusses: Government consultation on pre-charge bail with Sarah Learmonth ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ต๐๐ต https://t.co/IbA1wq... https://t. ...
RT @Womans_Place_UK: EqualiTeach and the Government Equalities Office - our statement https://t.co/Ay2do7...
Girl forces Uโturn on advice to schools over trans bullying
RT @SafeSchools_UK: We are delighted to have supported this action against @cpsuk alongside @WeAreFairCop. We will continue to support challenges to โguidance. Please see our website and prior tweets for further information & our previous ...
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*** LATEST FiLiA BLOG *** GIRL WITH A GUN 'Immediately, women protested. On International Womenโs Day, March 8, 1979, more than 100,000 gathered on the streets of Tehran, the Iranian capital, to demonstrate against the enforced hijab' ...
*** LATEST FiLiA PODCAST *** FiLiA meets: Hilla Kerner 'Cindy Gladue's case has become emblematic of the abuse and injustice faced by Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and the lack of justice for victims of sexual assault.' https://t.co/Esnqym...
'Only a handful of hospitals in the state provide the pills, meaning the vast majority of rural and regional women have to travel to the capital Adelaide.' https://t.co/6SvCJM...
South Australia Is Waiting On One Man To Decide If Women Have To Travel For Medical Abortions In A Pandemic
' He said it was common for patients to tell him they had tried herbs or illegal methods before coming to his clinic.' https://t.co/V49H4W...
Coronavirus pandemic stirs fight over abortion rights in US
'โWhat is important about this pandemic is that it has shined a spotlight on workers who have always been essential but before this were invisible,โ ' https://t.co/kYIlbr...
Women, minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic
Interesting read (ignore the initial 'gender identity' piffle) 'Reading their stories expands art historyโs frame, uncovering a hidden path to the feminist art of the 1960s and โ70s.' https://t.co/hceLLw...
How Women Helped Revolutionize the Art of Printmaking
'The socorristas help women navigate the countryโs health system, which, by law is meant to provide abortion in cases of rape or where the pregnancy is a risk to the health of the mother.' https://t.co/99g2kW...
These Activists Are Helping Women in Argentina Get Abortions During Lockdown
'Out of those who felt unsafe going into women's homes, almost all cited fears of exposure to Covid-19 and almost half said it was because of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE).' https://t.co/Ra7p47...
Midwives โdo not feel safeโ going into womenโs homes during outbreak
The parliament, based in the Belgian capital, teamed up with Samusocial to run the facility, which is much-needed because social distancing has forced many women's shelters to close. https://t.co/IxgFJA...
European Parliament shelters 100 homeless women
'For refugee girls and women everywhere, the feeling of being โforgottenโ is rooted in an unacceptable reality: for decades, their perspectives have been an afterthought in humanitarian action.' https://t.co/WsLN2C...
To end COVID-19, refugee women must be part of the solution
Malak Al Betare, Rima Al Rassas and Safaa Shoufan are three of the women who developed 'A Taste Of Home: Home-cooked recipes from Syrian refugees living in the UKโ with local artists, photographers and writers. https://t.co/gepLae...
Syrian Refugees in UK create recipe book
'McCarthyโs is an economic and social history, but she also wants to give โshade and textureโ to what has been thought and said about working mothers. In this she succeeds magnificently.' https://t.co/F5I4g4...
Double Lives by Helen McCarthy โ a history of working mothers
'Under the amendment, anyone who performs FGM either inside a medical establishment or elsewhere faces three years' imprisonment and a fine.' https://t.co/xWgyde...
Sudan criminalises female genital mutilation
RT @VivHayes: Honouring all the women and our organisations who are struggling on and RIP all who have not survived 6 weeks in and still not 1pence from government to the millions of women in dire need Shameful ...