*** π‘ππͺ ππΆππΆπ ππ‘π§ππ₯π©πππͺ *** Interview with Spanish Lawyer Paula Fraga Arias 'Being born a woman determines where we fit within the worldβs structures, in particular as subordinates in the sexual hierarchy of patriarchy' @ContraBorrado ...
An Interview with Spanish Lawyer Paula Fraga Arias β FiLiA
Where Are Our Girls? β FiLiA
ππΆππΆπ πππ’ππ¦ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) Where Are Our Girls? by Eva Taberne, 'addressing the disappearance of young, adolescent and adult girls in our territory' https://t.co/KNGucF...
More meetings with fabulous #Portsmouth Women. Three today. The local FiLiA Legacy Project is exciting, and we are so looking forward to seeing what comes from it. Sisterhood and Solidarity! FiLiA Team https://t.co/8d9K1B...
Feminists, could you help with ideas please. We may have the opportunity to run a book group with young Women in and around #Portsmouth who aren't engaged with #Feminism at the moment. We want to gather a list of possible books to add to the mix. Tha ...
After the death of baby Covid at #Kakuma we're fundraising for her Mother. Use the donate button from now until 4/10/20 - all funds will be sent to Reginah & her children. It will never replace Covid, but may make their life a little more ...
RT @BarbaraRich_law: A sonβs claim that βthe bank of mum and dadβ had a legal obligation to maintain him, even as a 41 year old adult, comprehensively dismissed in this judgment FS v RS and JS [2020] EWFC 63 (30 September 2020) https://t.co/dF0qpg...
Helen Reddy very kindly gave permission for us to play this song at FiLA. Iconic anthem for Women's Liberation. Still with so much relevance. I am strong I am invincible I am woman 'Love and Light' is how she signed off. https://t.co/xmPpB7...
Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (1971)
βIt was extremely painful but I kept quiet, as the women assured me that if I would scream or cry, I would be seen as a coward and nobody would be willing to marry [me],β Gumato recalls. https://t.co/6t7qap...
Our aim is to be able to gift 250 Solidarity Tickets for the next FiLiA conference. Please help if you can comfortably do so. Sisterhood and Solidarity! FiLiA Team https://t.co/RIYqfw... https://t.co/vIxeec...
*** πππ§ππ¦π§ ππΆππΆπ ππ¨ππ¦π§ πππ’π *** Message From Women in Black, Armenia 'We believe that if the international community does not react in a timely and appropriate manner, the military operations may expand beyond the conflict zone,' ...
Message From Women in Black, Armenia β FiLiA
*** πππ§ππ¦π§ ππΆππΆπ π£π’ππππ¦π§ *** Angelika Chaffey discusses You My Sister, new charity set up to support survivors of the sex trade - whose work is heavily informed by exited women. https://t.co/0dPPE0...
FiLiA meets: Angelika Chaffey - You My Sister β FiLiA
'About 300 protesters from the Bhim Army, a party championing the rights of #Dalits, entered the hospital building and shouted slogans near the mortuary where the womanβs body was kept' #Hathras https://t.co/Ctv71L...
India: Dalit woman dies weeks after gang rape, triggering protest
'Womenβs rights were not written into this constitution, and although there was an amendment in 1999 to include a sex equality statement, it is widely held that the constitution does not promote gender equality.' #Chile https://t.co/Md9Mp6...
Feminist history and Chile's social uprising - Toward Freedom
Britain has already lost so much as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. With a lack of attention to baked-in gender [sic] discrimination in new social and economic protection plans, it risks losing progress on gender [sic] equality too. ...
How discrimination against women is built into most job support schemes β Britain's included
'The latest remarks comes almost two years after this newspaper revealed that a surge in paedophiles downloading banned images of children had led to police having to out-source its investigations to other firms just to keep up.' ...
Court judge slams 'unacceptable' delays from police contractors in investigating child sex abuse images
'That said, men with higher levels of hostile attitudes toward women said they were more likely to purchase products after viewing the suggestive ads. So advertisers have the sexist consumer market firmly cornered.' https://t.co/9kt3Kb...
Sex doesnβt sell after all
'The investigation, conducted over almost a year, found women who described at least 30 separate instances of exploitation by men who said they were from the @WHO' Accusations also against @WorldVision, @UNICEF, @ALIMAong, @Oxfam, @MSF and others ...
The aid sector's newest sex abuse scandal
'Countries with female heads of government on average enacted their maximal level of shutdown and containment an average of 0.4 days after their countryβs βDay 3β. However, countries with male leaders on average took 19 days to reach this level' ...
COVID-19 and gendered governance: countries led by women did not employ more stringent strategies than those led by men β but they did act faster