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RT @CarolinejGoode: I will happily give a presentation about honour based violence and the Banaz Mahmod investigation FREE to any organisation that supports this campaign with a £100 pledge. https://t.co/jM1NwM...
Allison Bailey: “I am suing Stonewall to stop them policing free speech” — FiLiA
𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗦 Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) 'This awareness cannot be erased and it's everyone's duty to expand and shout for those who can't do it anymore.' https://t.co/hEgBa6...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: NO! @BBCNews Their names were Mihrican Mustafa and Henriett Szucs. Do not show such disrespect for their lives and reduce these two women to ‘freezer bodies’. https://t.co/V2dQKh...
On the night of Wednesday 19 to Thursday 20 August in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Aurore (40 years old) was murdered by her companion. This is the 62th femicide of 2020. https://t.co/oc5rPv...
RT @Sistah_Space: If you can, please support. We now have to pay for a 2nd interim venue while we try to reverse Hackney Council's decision to evict us in favour of 'preferred' tenants. WE HAVE JUST 7 DAYS TO BE OUT. THANK YOU A SAFE SPACE FOR ...
RT @afsanalachaux: So Grateful to everyone @FiLiA_charity for your ongoing support. We need to stand together in the face of #injustice #Genderinequality #vawg pl continue to share #helpafsana 👇 https://t.co/GNqkCm...
RT @BettyBandit: My go-to #podcast for actual (radical) #feminism https://t.co/E3K1gT...
RT @MaryamNamazie: #HandsUpForApostasy... 22 August, #ApostasyDay Apostasy not a crime; murdering, shunning, threatening, torturing, imprisoning humans for non-belief is. ارتداد جرم نیست؛ قتل ،اعدام، طرد کردن ، تهدید ، شکنجه ، زندانی کردن انسانها ...
Please consider buying a Solidarity Ticket if you can. Our hope is to gift 250 tickets for the next FiLiA conference. Sisterhood and Soldiarity https://t.co/RIYqfw... https://t.co/b6vhPo...
It's the weekend! Time to catch up on the FiLiA blogs and podcasts A wide range of Women's voices on many varied topics Sisterhood and Solidarity FiLiA Team https://t.co/X6dOC6... https://t.co/ohIbGy...
'Nearly 250 women have been killed in Turkey so far this year, new statistics suggest, prompting a call for international solidarity from women’s organizations in a bid to save lives.' #Turkey https://t.co/ExGaJ2...
Murders of women rising in Turkey; government does nothing
Just shut them down. Permanently. With full support for the Women to exit. 'The ministry has sent a letter asking “regions to specifically act on places where prostitution is exercised, like brothels”' #Spain https://t.co/CPfFeq...
Spain seeks to shut brothels to curb coronavirus contagion
'Indian police regularly arrest gangs who offer tests to pregnant women, often charging up to £400. The arrests usually follow a tipoff or the use of a pregnant woman as a decoy.' #India https://t.co/55cNN6...
Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girls being born by 2030
'The all-too-common result is ‘sex for water’: unscrupulous water suppliers, almost exclusively male, from informal vendors to utility staff, demanding sexual favours as payment for water.' #Kenya https://t.co/YVnvAw...
How Women & Girls are Forced to Trade Sex for Water | Inter Press Service
'Although only [sic] 8% of the women in the study said they had experienced physical harassment in their workplace, 65% regularly had to deal with sexual jokes and inappropriate comments.' #Slovakia https://t.co/RwMCe7...
Slovak Women Journalists Take on Corruption, but Ignore Own Sexual Harassment | Balkan Insight
'People are frustrated and really losing patience that you can go to the pub and hairdresser but at such a significant moment in your life, you can’t have someone with you,' https://t.co/YRMoFf...
Restrictions around visitors may force pregnant women to spend days alone in hospitals
'But members of the patrol that set out through the forest last December don’t call themselves guardians; they prefer warriors. And they differ in one other notable aspect: they are all women.' https://t.co/z0fFeB...
Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand