RT @wwwritingclub: Nicola Sturgeon has replied to our Open Letter in Support of the Scottish Poetry Library. Read her letter for yourself, and decide whether it deals with the issues raised by the 500 signatories: https://t.co/JjRCGM...
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 @Esuantsiwa: "The Space Between Black and White" a Mixed-Race memoir by Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith. Released 3rd March 2020 and available to pre-order from @JacarandaBooks, @Foyles, @audibleuk and all good booksellers. https://t.co/E0n3pY...
RT @JahnaRiley: Question for the white folks on my tl: What are you doing to make sure that you're raising children who won't kill mine?
RT @KatBanyard: โIt is not progressive to accept women as commodities, sold to men who buy consent and abuse their power. Letโs criminalise the demand..and say that in Scotland, nobody is for sale.โ- @SISTERTeenybash https://t.co/eS7hMF... @ashtenRD ...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA introduces our Spokeswoman: Raquel Rosario Sรกnchez https://t.co/q8yP2A... https://t.co/vN8xkA...
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/t4Y ...
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA Meets: Susan Bewley who has published widely on severe maternal morbidity & health aspects of violence against women & girls ...
RT @newsfromnowhere: Dearest Friends from Nowhere! We are still supplying mail order from our vast stock of wonderful, challenging, life-affirming books We can still order most books for you too, tho delivery times are a bit slower ...
RT @JeanHatchet: Just took the full half hour needed to listen again to Pragma Patelโs speech to @FiLiA_charity in Bradford 2019. It is well worth the time. Crucial listening if you werenโt there. And if you were. https://t.co/9ULw6P...
FiLiA - Building Sisterhood and Solidarity - Amplifying the Voices of Women - Defending Women's Human Rights https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/co42ZC...
*** ๐๐๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง *** Sam Smethers talks to FiLiAโs Policy Assistant, Alice, about the UK Governmentโs handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the unseen impact on some of the most vulnerable women in society. https://t.co/jh0LYK...
FiLiA meets: Sam Smethers โ FiLiA
Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses 'One way of looking at why that matters that is to look at the gap that opened up between women's and men's unemployment last month.' https://t.co/nGzA2T... https://t.co/uYsnyP...
'I wonder whether donors to MSI, a charitable organisation which promotes itself on 'empowering women and girls to take control of their futures', realise it is funded from proceeds from the adult industry and pornography,' https://t.co/pEYNeH...
Marie Stopes abortion charity took millions from US porn baron
'Today, choosing to terminate a pregnancy remains a divisive debate But many historians argue that what happened on Mother's Day weekend 50 years ago was the beginning of the end of illegal abortion in Canada.' https://t.co/uj5fl4...
Canada's Abortion Caravan: Looking back at a historic reproductive rights movement | CBC News
'Birmingham based start ups @niyoenterprise and @codingblackfems have launched a programme called The Black Codher aimed at helping unemployed black and minority ethnic (BAME) females in the West Midlands get opportunities to work in the tech ...
Initiative to boost numbers of black women in tech launched - Voice Online
'Isaacโs death draws increased attention to the struggles black mothers face during their pregnancies. Before the pandemic, pregnant black women were dying at two to three times the rate of their white counterparts.' https://t.co/t8wI6M...
26-Year-Old Black Woman Dies Giving Birth After She Was Neglected by Doctors for Weeks, Family Says
'Women are the core of Lebanonโs revolution. They have been contributing their time, voices, talents, experiences, education, and expertise to help the revolution with its goals. Among these heroes are female Lebanese journalists.' ...
Women Journalists Open Up About Their Experiences Covering Lebanon's Uprising
'Another woman, R Lakshmi, says, "He was calm for the 40 https://t.co/2csIxF... soon as the shop opened, he got his booze. As I questioned him, he ransacked our house and beat me up," she said.' https://t.co/BEBVmW...
Women lead protests for closure of Tasmac outlets | Trichy News - Times of India
'The first to study the relationship between female board members and medical product recalls, it also found that there are other medical product defects we may never know about unless there are female directors. ' https://t.co/Ja6Smp...
Coronavirus Treatments - If More Women Are On The Board, Itโs Likely Safer, New Study Finds
'Last night Nicola Williams, director of campaign group Fair Play For Women, said: 'These new figures are another red flag warning us about something everyone knows: Allowing males into female prisons is dangerous for women.'' https://t.co/eKVgTQ...
Transgender inmates carried out seven sex attacks on women in jail
'The Pakistan government should act quickly to ensure that necessary measures are taken to safely reopen maternity wards and that sexual and reproductive health services continue to be available throughout the pandemic' https://t.co/SumvMi...
Closing Pakistanโs Maternity Wards Puts Women at Risk
'men aged 19-24 were likely to have a positive perception of people their age breaking the rules. It was suggested they could regard these people as โcoolโ and โindependentโ, while other groups saw them as โself-centredโ and โimmatureโ.' ...
Young men more likely than women to break lockdown rules โ UK survey