RT @ALLIANCELGB: When @jk_rowling tweeted this weekend she ended with a flourish: “It is not hate to tell the truth”. This goes to the heart of the movement that’s fighting back against the erasure and denial of biological sex. It should be our ...
RT @ENoMW: Gestation is a physiological process that involves physical changes at the level of the whole body. To pretend to "rent a womb" is to not understand that our body does not divide into parts. We are being bought. #StopEsclavitudRepr... #Sto ...
RT @shinybluedress: An NHS psychiatrist addicted to child abuse images has avoided jail He said viewing them helped to relieve his stress! Beyond words https://t.co/eF8VnM... via @MailOnline ...
‘If a woman speaks disrespectfully (?) to a man, her mouth shall be crushed with fired brick, and that brick will be hung at the main gate’ c. 2350 BC Urukagina’s Code Since the beginning of recorded history, women have been forced or coerced into ...
RT @matters_yes: Our founder unapologetically stands against damaging gender stereotypes including the sexual objectification of women and girls and we love her for it. @EVAWuk @FiLiA_charity @Wecantconsentto @DrJessTaylor @SarahChampionMP ...
FiLiA meets: Hilla Kerner — FiLiA
RT @FiLiA_charity: 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) FiLiA meets: Hilla Kerner, a feminist who works with Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. https://t.co/Esnqym...
“A decade of cuts has left many women’s services in crisis.” Read this blog from the amazing women at @ICChangeUK on why the UK Government must act to ratify the #IstanbulConvention to prevent violence against women https://t.co/ZVGL0P...
Immediate help for Prostituted Women (and Others)! — FiLiA
RT @FiLiA_charity: 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Immediate help for Prostituted Women (and Others)! https://t.co/kH68f1...
RT @lindamacnst: We can do this! Eliminating systemic #sexism, #misogyny, men's violence and #femicide. #nsshooting @CAN_Femicide @WomanTreaty @cdnwomenfdn @FiLiA_charity @artprintspace @ElaineCraigDal https://t.co/uMmpKf... https://t.co/gAZrnk...
RT @WASPI_Campaign: https://t.co/CuTmES...
Take them all down. And never let them build themselves up again. #metoo #feministrevolution https://t.co/TGU0W8...
Prosecutors formally request to talk with Prince Andrew in Epstein investigation
RT @Zubhaque: The impact of #COVID19 on women - incl BME women has been under-discussed in this pandemic. And yet the findings from this survey is clear: BME women are not only vulnerable health-wise from covid-19; they are also more likely to bear ...
Thanks to the Shahidah Janjua Memorial Page for sharing this piece in the local Kerry newspaper about Shahidah, 'writer, feminist and environmental activist who inspired many' Read Shahidah's powerful speech at FiLiA too: https://t.co/txaPvk...
RT @laurarichards99: @FiLiA_charity Thank you so much for having me on the podcast @FiLiA_charity @gemma_brett This was such an important and timely conversation about what needs to happen to better protect women and girls #DABill #WomenMatter
*** 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 *** FiLiA meets: @laurarichards99 who joins Gemma Aitchison in conversation about her current vital campaign to protect women and girls from male violence and abuse. https://t.co/iYdvVe...
FiLiA meets: Laura Richards — FiLiA
RT @AlisonMoyet: Tell me again about a woman’s privilege. https://t.co/OsgBIX...
Pornhub and all the other racist, misogynist sites need taking down. We are sick of this anti-Women propaganda. https://t.co/Ln9t0h...
FiLiA is a Women-led volunteer charity - Building Sisterhood and Solidarity - Amplifying the Voices of Women - Defending Women's Human Rights #Bradford #Manchester #Salford #Portsmouth https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/UhLGTe...
Join the Call to Ratify the Istanbul Convention — FiLiA
The UK Government has ignored a life-saving piece of legislation for 8 years today. @pritipatel @10DowningStreet listen to women and #ratify the #IstanbulConvention https://t.co/ZVGL0P...
Check here for volunteer positions with FiLiA ... join our team. Sisterhood and Solidarity https://t.co/5cOdKP... https://t.co/zVMB6x...
'This is because disruptions allow us to see very clearly the things that were “invisible” to us before. It provides us with an opportunity to name things for what they are, and then hopefully to address them.' #Maldives https://t.co/7G4t3t...
Maldivian women are more vulnerable now than ever before
'The spike in regional violence against women and girls takes two forms: domestic violence against women who have become family breadwinners , and sexual violence against women and girls who have migrated to camps near crowded urban centres.' ...
Somaliland: 'Most Men are your Enemies' Activist Ibado Tells Somali Women
One of our FiLiA volunteers is on Day 80 today. 'We don’t know what is causing prolonged Covid. Is it the ongoing initial illness, or is it an inflammatory reaction or is it a post-viral syndrome?' https://t.co/ZQlo2f...
'It feels endless': four women struggling to recover from Covid-19
'I study sex differences in medicine. This means that I research and teach about the ways in which women are biologically different than men, and how these differences impact everything from diagnoses to treatment protocols ...' ...
How male-centric medicine endangers women’s health - and what we can do about it
“I got burned by an iron and then hit by it while our children watched,” she wrote on social media.“ … I am putting this out here cause this has gone too far. I can only hope that there won’t be another victim after me.” #PapuaNewGuinea #DebbieKaore ...
'Leave that lady alone': rugby star's domestic violence video sparks outcry in Papua New Guinea
'This failure to raise national awareness and correctly record offences of non-physical forms of abuse such as coercive control and economic abuse not only silences victims, it abandons them.' https://t.co/Lj6c8N...
After Sally Challen, we now have a chance to tackle coercive control
'Before he beheaded his 14-year-old daughter with a farming sickle, Reza Ashrafi called a lawyer ... What kind of punishment, he asked the lawyer, would he get for killing her?' #Iran https://t.co/4dINEI...
A Daughter Is Beheaded, and Iran Asks if Women Have a Right to Safety
'If the law is upheld, a district court found that Louisiana would be left with one abortion clinic to serve the nearly 10,000 women who seek abortions in the state annually.' #USA https://t.co/aP17He...
'Clinics will be forced to close': Abortion rights backers fearful of upcoming Supreme Court ruling
'The proposed laws would create protective zones around abortion services and prohibit harassment, intimidation, filming and other distressing conduct.' #SouthAustralia https://t.co/DhS0Ds...
SA catches up with abortion reform