RT @FiLiA_charity: ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ? "The police is under UNHCR, so if the UNHCR is not taking action, how will the police take action?" Hold @Refugees to account for the treatment of our #Lesbian Sisters #Kakuma #CloseBlock13 https://t.co/jxYj6O... h ...
'She has become an emancipated woman: a poet, and activist with the separatist feminist movement. Even today, Billi refers to herself as being in love with women and with life' https://t.co/bLdVy3...
Wish It Was a Coming Out: older gay people in Italy โ in pictures
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'campaigners warn that the films like 365 Days diminish the seriousness of sexual assault and coercion and could have real-life implications for young people who view these behaviours as normal.' https://t.co/7tTxcs... https://t.co/uFocQ1...
'Doherty remembered about the women trying to make an almost impossible decision about whether to keep their baby. โNone of the girls who were there felt ashamed that they were pregnant,โ Doherty stressed. The shame came from other people.' ...
Caelainn Hogan: 'This institution for โunmarried mothersโ is not part of some distant past - it closed in 2006'
'Their 'crimes' could be anything from 'scolding' - being quarrelsome or noisy - to not behaving as a dutiful maid or wife was expected, to having a child out of wedlock or being a prostitute.' https://t.co/qaQLwh...
Piccadilly Gardens' lost 'lunatic asylum' and grim history of public torture
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How the menopause is having a MeToo moment
'There have been restrictions on women performing publicly in front of men who are not their immediate relatives since the Islamic revolution of 1979.' #Iran https://t.co/JuLnjO...
'They took my identity': The Iranian artists jailed for defying ban on women singing and dancing
'The letter by the womenโs groups, meanwhile, has stated that while โeach person is innocent until proven guiltyโ, Zafar being conferred with the award gives an impression that #Pakistan โinadvertently stands behind men accused of sexual ...
Pakistani women write to Imran Khan against award to Ali Zafar, cite sexual abuse charges
'From a biologic point of view, men are naturally programmed to die earlier than women at the very moment of conception. Available evidence indicates that the male foetus is biologically weaker and more vulnerable to pregnancy complications ...' ...
What causes the inequality in life-expectancy between men and women?