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28 posts today#125 Cambridge Radical Feminist Network: Centring Women’s Rights in Academia
#125 Cambridge Radical Feminist Network: Centring Women’s Rights in Academia
We held our AGM this evening. We spent a couple of hours with Women in the team sharing their work over the past year. How we manage to fit so much in as volunteers, I don't know. Hard work, determination and a bit of Feminist magic, that's how. ...
RT @selina_todd: Job opportunity: researcher on our new programme on women's equality and inequality @UniofOxford. Please share widely! https://t.co/jUbuSd...
RT @KhadijaKhan__: A Pakistani university has made "loose" black abaya/Burka mandatory for women in a bid to promote 'modest culture'in educational institutes.Another retrograde step. This cult mentality continues to target women w its depraved ...
RT @Hopetraining: 📣Reminder: 2021 National H.O.P.E call 📞 Domestic abuse within Black & Minority ethnic communities during C19 29.1.2021 @ 12pm 🗣Speaker update: @aanchal_uk @FiLiA_charity @kmewo @pamela_zaballa @brownwomentalk ✅To register pleas ...
Statement on the murder of our sisters...in Shadadi, North East Syria Signed, Kurdistan Solidarity Network Jin Women Defend Rojava UK Committee Kurdish Women’s Initiative UK Kurdish People’s Assembly UK Southall Black Sisters Women’s Strike assembly ...
Statement on the murder of our sisters and comrades in Shadadi, North East Syria
RT @starrcongress: The assassination of our two friends motivates us to work harder, fight stronger, and to keep leading the way as women. When such a backward and patriarchal group like IS targets organized women, they are waging a war on life ...
RT @out_of_lives: Rejoin on the link below and follow @tombfowler and @copscampaign for live tweeting! #spycops #SpycopsInquiry https://t.co/uELMCq... https://t.co/dG4dUH...
Follow @EVAWuk and @centreWJ today for updates on their challenging the 'dropping of weak cases' .... https://t.co/uNHNZs...
We just had a quote for £900 / hour from a organisation to host training in online safety! FiLiA is looking for an organisation with an understanding of the impact on Women and Girls online, and a more reasonable price tag. Thank you, FiLiA Team ...
RT @hannahsbee: NEW:Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) Executive - leadership team - to be ‘disbanded’ in response to CQC’s ‘inadequate’ rating of service & decision in Keira Bell judicial review on whether under 16s can consent ...
Sale of FiLiA merchandise, ready for new items .... help us to clear the way! https://t.co/QHTq9N... https://t.co/nyKJSV...
*** 𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 *** 'Girls bear the bigger burden of helping out in homes but socio-economically well-off households do not require their children to help out with ... household chores' By Dr Lana Chikhungu: https://t.co/vBRcmh...
*** 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗙𝗶𝗟𝗶𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 *** #124 FiLiA meets Sall Grover, founder & CEO of Giggle, a social network & social medial platform for females. What led her to found Giggle and why is it female only? https://t.co/WnErEb...
“We know that this is not an isolated issue, it is structural,” said Aida Quilcue, at the time a human rights adviser at the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC). @ONIC_Colombia https://t.co/ZsjdR3...
'Nowhere is safe': Colombia confronts alarming surge in femicides
'Clinical review teams found that 27 of the 28 received an element of care below expected standards, 19 of which (68%) included at least one "major" issue which contributed significantly towards their poor outcome.' https://t.co/A7EGwf...
Dozens of labouring women had substandard care at maternity units
'Coercive control often continues post-separation and victims are at heightened risk of homicide in this period.' says @nicolejacobsST https://t.co/rXwBLO...
Women are often better protected if they stay with their abusers — this must change
“We found that in around a quarter of the cases examined, the women had been subjected to multiple forms of violence prior to and during the trafficking process, including from early childhood” https://t.co/t9slTT...
Shining a light on sexually exploited women and girls forced into crime
#Thailand Should Fully Decriminalize All #Abortion 'Instead of putting women on trial for exercising their reproductive rights, the Thai government should fully decriminalize abortion.' NB. Usual mysogynist language by @hrw https://t.co/jLVY2q...
“The findings of this poll show strong levels of support for buffer zones – the ultimate goal of our campaign. It’s now time for the Scottish Government to act, and legitimise buffer zones around all clinics providing abortion services.” ...
Poll: 82 per cent of Scots want end to abortion clinic protests
'Sarah Green, director of the @EVAWuk, told The Independent: “We welcome the police and prosecution service taking action to look into ‘sex for rent’ and being willing to investigate thoroughly and charge.' by @mayaoppenheim https://t.co/mgrpsI...
Man charged over so-called ‘sex for rent’ allegations in first case of its kind