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#121 Homeless Child, Sex Trade Victim, Inspiring Author: Meet Grizelda Grootboom
Great news! Thank you to all the wonderful feminists that made this happen! https://t.co/7gTiVv...
New offence of non-fatal strangulation welcomed — Centre for Women's Justice
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If you manage to get some downtime (!) there are 120 FiLiA Podcasts to choose from on a wide range of topics #patriarchy #racism #sexbasedrights #prostitution #fgm #consent #activism #abortion and more Sisterhood and Solidarity! ...
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'Sonia Hernandez of the rights group International Justice Mission (IJM), which campaigned for the ban on marriage for under 18s in the #DominicanRepublic, welcomed President Luis Abinader’s decision to sign the bill into law on Wednesday.' ...
Dominican Republic bans child marriage amid fears of global rise
'A noteworthy feature of both these protests is that they have challenged the stereotypes of Indian women that have been dominated by their supposed passivity in the face of victimhood.' @navjotpalk #FarmersProtest https://t.co/mW1QeB...
Women Take the Reins in India’s Farmers’ Protest
'An Associated Press investigation last year found that the state of Xinjiang “regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands” https://t.co/5S1esS...
The Chinese government is trying to rebrand forced sterilization as feminism | Arwa Mahdawi
'Hunger now affects 9% of people in the world – 60% of whom are women and children.' https://t.co/BJ1LXJ...
The collective shame of global hunger - NationofChange
'“Sex selection can distort the composition of a country’s population for generations… Over time, these skewed ratios translate into missing girls, missing women and missing elderly women…' @EwelinaUO https://t.co/v1ENjH...
What Are We Doing About The Issue Of Missing Women In 2021?
"All of the jobs lost were women's jobs, with women losing 156,000 jobs and men gaining 16,000." 'The disparities grow even wider when considering race.' National Women's Law Center #USA https://t.co/3Kbyqo...
The US lost 140,000 jobs in December. All of those jobs were held by women.
'The proposed class action is on behalf of people [sic] who had their intimate photos and videos shared on one of MindGeek’s platforms without their consent, including child sexual abuse content, since 2007.' https://t.co/2LMjJ0...
Pornhub owner facing proposed $600 million class-action lawsuit from Ontario woman
'It’s a story I hear over and over again: women’s jobs, careers – and with it, much of their self-worth – going to the wall as they do the lion’s share of home-schooling and parenting.' https://t.co/wEzJCB...
FLORA WATKINS: Women's jobs, self-worth and sanity are going to wall
'A police force accused of being over-zealous after officers surrounded two women and fined them £200 each for driving 10 minutes to take a reservoir walk has said it will review its actions.' https://t.co/jV4ylb...
Police to review lockdown fines dished out after women were surrounded for taking a socially distanced walk’
“We routinely hear from women during the pandemic who simply can’t access their regular method of #contraception because of clinics closing or staff being deployed elsewhere or staff self-isolating.” https://t.co/pcj77L...
Thousands of women had abortions while ‘struggling to access contraception during Covid crisis’
The women creating culinary acts of remembrance for #Mexico’s missing 'Their group is known as the #Rastreadoras del Fuerte (the Searchers of El Fuerte) — a reference to the place where Medina’s son disappeared.' https://t.co/ruhadB...