๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA meets: Meera Khanna, from Every Woman Treaty, a campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. ...
RT @ALLIANCELGB: โMinisters have said they want to follow โinternational best practiceโ on the matter after a number of other countries undertook their own reform programmes.โ Do you know what โinternational best practiceโ means? The answer is truly ...
RT @RobotCampaign: Well done @LailaMickelwait @FiLiA_charity all the groups campaigning against vile filmed sexual abuse of women & children in porn. #Traffickinghub BBC Call for credit card freeze on porn sites https://t.co/Llq7hu...
โSystems of Philosophy โ Wall(paper)s of Mindโ Part 3. VE DAY 2020. In honour of Pamela Pigeon, Britainโs first female Spy Master. โ Atelier de Melusine
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Greater Manchester Doulas - Birth during COVID-19 'we are seeing the effects of years of over-medicalisation of birth.' ...
RT @CharitySoWhite: "reduced access to healthcare compared with white people, along with school closures and insecure housing, all aid in making minorities more at risk" - thanks for the shout-out @BritishVogue! https://t.co/3SUB3H...
RT @FiLiA_charity: 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/DcF ...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Sunday Opening Speeches - FiLiA 2019 Conference With Jessica Taylor, Marie Laguerre and Miss Yankey https://t.co/RsqeC0... https://t.co/Is3tO ...
Misogynist Violence, Migrant Women, Domestic Torture, and a Girl with a Gun - https://t.co/xXWI5z... https://t.co/kGqkHP...
In March 2020, we were shocked to learn that the Labor Party had refused to renew the membership of Karen Ingala Smith, a prominent feminist and founder of the "Counting Dead Women" project. The reason for the rejection was, according to the party, ...
RT @SBSisters: We urge anyone who feels unsafe at home during #COVID19 lockdown due to domestic abuse or sexual violence to get in touch with us we are available Monday to Friday 9am-5pm via email/telephone & an outreach advice surgery Wednesdays ...
The delays have already been far too long. Funding must reach specialist organisations especially those run by and for the BME community https://t.co/y0nBJ4...
Domestic abuse charities can apply for vital funds
Thanks to everyone who has signed up to become a Friend of FiLiA. Every penny of your support goes directly towards enabling Women to participate who otherwise would not be able to. Sisterhood and Solidarity FiLiA Team https://t.co/X6dOC6...
โI spent three hours on the subreddit and there were videos that were clearly rape, where women can be heard refusing and protesting but they were still continuing, and filming,โ she said. โThe subreddit has no end, it goes on and on.โ ...
For Nepali women, rampant objectification and sexualisation on the internet
'37 per cent said they did not try to access any free sources of products, 42 per cent said they did not know where they needed to go to access free period products and 30 per cent said they felt too embarrassed to find a source of free period ...
Three in 10 girls โstruggling to afford or access period products during lockdownโ
'The @DCWDelhi has sent a notice to police to file cases over the โvilification campaignโ against a pregnant Jamia Millia Islamia student, arrested for alleged involvement in protests against the new citizenship law https://t.co/gw5TwJ...
Notice on sexist jibe at Jamia student
The entitlement of men in power ... 'German and Thai activists have staged a protest outside the the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Germany where King Maha Vajiralongkorn is staying with his harem of 20 women.' https://t.co/xBzdTd...
Protests break out at German hotel where Thai King is staying with his harem
'Every evening, when health experts updated anxious Italians in televised briefings about their nationโs devastating coronavirus outbreak, the lineup of authoritative figures included only one woman: the sign-language interpreter.' ...
Most of Italy's doctors and nurses are women. Its official coronavirus response is dominated by men
'The women were supported by activists of the Istri Jagriti Manch, who opined that opening of liquor vends would lead to a surge in domestic violence cases.' https://t.co/6wtdKP...
Nabha women protest move to open liquor vends
'the "prolonged static display... of a deeply disturbing image which caused harm to some observers is beyond the margin of what freedom of expression requires, even for political speech".' https://t.co/245Ryg...
Anti-abortion campaigner loses poster ban appeal
A video by @AbortionFunds that would have been far more powerful if they had used the word 'women' - rather than hiding the fact that the anti-abortion agenda is an anti-Women agenda. https://t.co/0WPaOb...
'Louise describes how the gut-wrenching news was made even worse as her doctor broke it to her that abortions were currently banned in Texas unless it was to save the life of the mother or the child.' https://t.co/NQ6wlz...
How new US abortion bans affect women
'Over the past couple months, weโve seen an unceasing back and forth in the federal courts over state bans on abortion during the pandemic. ' Interview with Mary Ziegler on the legal history of abortion https://t.co/q8GNYO...
The coronavirus made a mess of abortion access. What the Supreme Court decides next month could be worse.
RT @FiLiA_charity: *** 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 ...
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FiLiA is pleased to have signed this letter, and to have joined the growing number of campaigns against Pornhub and other sexual exploitation sites. Thanks to @Porn_Harms for coordinating. https://t.co/Ve4TQg...