RT @Finn_Mackay: Peter Sutcliffe was not the reason Reclaim the Night marches began in Leeds in 1977, but his crimes meant that this form of activism resonated with large numbers of women. Rape Crisis had formed in London in 1976. Feminists here were ...
Why Did a British Court Order Me To Pay My Ex-Husbands ยฃ94K Legal Bill? โ FiLiA
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฆ Amplifying the Voices of Women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) 'It is time the UK stopped turning a blind eye to the issue of human trafficking.' By Luna Williams https://t.co/DSJqTG...
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*** ๐ก๐๐ช ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐๐ข๐ *** 'Every Thursday we stand outside MindGeek headquarters with posters showing the company that we know what theyโre doing and we arenโt going to let them get away with it.' By Rafaela Diaz-Byers https://t.co/Md01Ba...
Campaigning Against PornHub / MindGeek in Canada โ FiLiA
*** ๐ก๐๐ช ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐๐ช *** Her family state that Loujain has been tortured repeatedly, including beatings, waterboarding, sexual harassment, and threats of rape and murder. How can you help? #FreeLoujain https://t.co/SIlYxN...
'Three elements of the Sudanese organizersโ strategy were crucial to their success in 2019: a decentralized yet organized protest structure; the leadership of women before and during the protests; and the activation of a vast diaspora network.' ...
How Nigeriaโs Activists Can Keep the #EndSARS Movement Alive
'But the decision to place the women on the front lines was to maintain what they hoped would be a peaceful protest, in the face of the provocation they expected to occur. They knew they would face the police, and potentially violence.' by ...
The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.
'โAs far as I know, sheโs more or less the shape weโd all like to be.โ ... Has she bypassed the decades of struggle women have had โ and continue to have โ to break out of the straitjacket of imperatives and expectations imposed on them?' ...
Back to the roots of feminism โ what has the Wollstonecraft statue achieved?
'Multilateral action to restrain Turkey and ensure the self-determination of #Rojava would be the best policy to protect the rights of the local population today and international law principles into the future.' https://t.co/i7TBBO...
Assessing International Law on Self-Determination and Extraterritorial Use of Force in Rojava
'But the fact that feminists had to campaign to stop men from defending themselves against a murder conviction by saying that victims actually wanted to be beaten, strangled and tortured during sex is shocking and disgraceful.' by Julie Bindel ...
'About 30 hooded women broke in this Friday afternoon in the bunker of the Attorney Generalโs Office of #Mexico City to demand justice for the femicide by Bianca Alejandrina (Alexis), occurred at the beginning of the week in Cancun, Quintana Roo' ...
News : New protest against femicides and repression in Cancun: women demonstrated at the offices of the CDMX Prosecutor's Office
Turkish armed police block womenโs demonstration against femicide 'Turkey has been branded โa slaughterhouse for womenโ amid a worrying rise in femicides, with the male killers often escaping punishment.'' #Turkey https://t.co/XvOdNs...
'One woman visited her local authority every day with all her belongings, begging for somewhere to live. Another woman described how social services threatened to take her baby away when it was born, but would not help her find somewhere to live.' ...
Hungry, homeless and pregnant: the migrant women facing destitution in the UK
'The concept is simple. A group of people with a common goal run together for the same seat. If elected, one of the members serves as the official representative, but the group makes decisions together.' https://t.co/84RkMI...
In Brazilโs first elections under Bolsonaro, Black women are fighting back
'โThese women are being detained because they are advocating for womenโs rights and it is seen as an affront to the power structures of Saudi Arabia,โ Kennedy added.' #Saudi #FreeLoujain https://t.co/sYHVjR...
UK report calls out Saudi Arabia over womenโs rights abuses
'The error often made while understanding gender bias is the presumption of a single glass ceiling. This simplistic view misses the pernicious sustainability of patriarchy.' #India https://t.co/wBWYCl...
Where Are the Women in Indian Diplomacy?