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39 posts todayThe Shocking Reality of Surrogacy — FiLiA
The Shocking Reality of Surrogacy — FiLiA
The Shocking Reality of Surrogacy It is ‘an industry which places poor women of colour in closely monitored residences and treats them as potting soil for the planting and growing of children for wealthier, usually white clients’. ...
About to attend the #FemicideCensus10ye... presentation. Thank you to all the Women who have worked to pull this together, and to highlight such an important issue. Sisterhood and Solidarity! FiLiA Team https://t.co/u14erm... https://t.co/8Gh60Q...
#107 Listen to Survivors: Valerie Tender - militant abolitionist radical feminist — FiLiA
Listen to Survivors: Valerie Tender - militant abolitionist radical feminist Valérie Pelletier (aka Legal Tender) is a survivor of prostitution, now a public speaker, a conceptual artist. a vlogger, a singer (jazz, country etc.) ...
PANDEMIC AND FEMICIDES — FiLiA
To mark our 16 days of activism to end male violence against Women we are sharing some of the great content from Women across the world #16days #VAWG ~Argentina https://t.co/VRh9L2...
RT @marstrina: Women have been dropping out of the workforce to do more unpaid domestic labour; note that research shows that when men become unemployed they start doing *less* work in the home. https://t.co/LmW5KY...
About to join a Zoom call with three Women who want to join as volunteers. They describe themselves as a coven - this should be fun! https://t.co/5cOdKP... https://t.co/vyRiga...
RT @VictimsComm: Surviving Economic Abuse is running a series of free webinars over the next few months, increasing understanding and awareness of economic abuse across six key issues. @SEAresource sessions are free and open to everyone. ...
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WORD OF THE YEAR IN RUSSIA: FEMICID — FiLiA
To mark our 16 days of activism to end male violence against women we are sharing some of the great content from women across the world #16days #VAWG #Femicide https://t.co/PtQDwK...
Listen to the FiLiA interview with Lina here. Sisterhood and Solidarity! https://t.co/SIlYxN... https://t.co/rRMwNj...
'Being a woman in Peru and facing the legal system is a nightmare. Rape culture is so normalised that it seems to override any fundamental rights.' by Lara Salvatierra https://t.co/5A2W1f...
Yes Matters - Research for the 16 Days of Activism Project In this episode, Gemma discusses the recent findings of a research report carried out by Yes Matters, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Project, looking at sexual violence and sexual ...
“With COVID’s socio-economic impact driving millions of refugees and displaced people further into poverty and destitution, we are extremely worried about the increase in violence against women and girls,” https://t.co/xBDbCA...
UNHCR warns second wave of COVID pandemic driving further violence against refugee women and girls
'According to IRNA, 20 per cent of the total murders that take place in Iran, and 50 per cent of the domestic killings, are “honour” killings, and annually between 375 and 450 such killings are registered in the country.' https://t.co/P6fZZY...
Iranian women’s struggle against misogynist state policies and systemic violence
“We stand by a structural analysis relating to women being oppressed as a group and refrain from current neoliberal positions which focus on individual rights, as we do not see this as a route to transformational change.” https://t.co/GqtpHc...
One of the ‘world’s best-kept secrets’ on women’s rights
'Misogyny and online violence are a real threat to women’s participation in journalism and public communication in the digital age. It’s both a genuine gender equality struggle and a freedom of expression crisis that needs to be taken very ...
Online attacks on female journalists are increasingly spilling into the 'real world' – new research
'The crowd was able to complete the performance only once before police deployed a water cannon to disperse the demonstrators from the Plaza Italia in downtown Santiago.' https://t.co/U2usoc...
Thousands of Chilean women perform feminist anthem - France 24
'While men swore often, women’s bad language was far more likely to be of concern. An 1850 commentary published in the Moreton Bay Courier, called on husbands to exercise their authority and prevent wives from publicly using “obscene and filthy ...
From 'common scolds' to feminist reclamation: the fraught history of women and swearing in Australia
'She strongly believes her experience was related to her race and is calling for the government to offer more training to healthcare professionals on how they should treat mothers from different demographics.' https://t.co/DEMlOr...
Black women five times more likely to die in childbirth - but NHS has 'no target' to end it
'Under the penal code, people charged with violent crimes can receive harsher sentences if a judge decides their actions were motivated by someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.' https://t.co/SpJ0ok...
Norway outlaws hate speech against trans people
'Posted anonymously, the petition alleged students were told to avoid such items of clothing as “they cannot show off the female anatomy as it is distracting to the female and male staff of the school”.' https://t.co/384klt...
School denies telling female pupils to ‘avoid tight leggings’
“Lockdown itself is not the reason why domestic abuse occurs. In fact, it has only exacerbated abuse and heightened pre-existing behaviours of power and control in abusive partners, and narrowed the opportunities for victims to seek and access ...
Fifth of offences during and after lockdown involved domestic abuse
'They are never attacked, robbed, or raped, or sexually harassed. They are the only ones not scared in Holbeck. It’s their hunting ground. They are ones benefiting from this council sponsored nightmare – the punters and the pimps.' ...
Holbeck Managed Approach: Drowning Not Swimming