RT @kiritunks: Thank you @elainesmithmsp @JohannLamont @JennyMarra @JoanMcAlpine for everything you are doing to make sure women’s concerns are being heard. We share your outrage at the attacks women face. #CourageCallsToCour... #HateCrimeBill
These deliberate moves against Women are visible for all to see. We will not be quiet. #SexMatters The vote to include 'sex' in the #HateCrimeBill has been lost today, despite the best efforts of @JohannLamont and @JoanMcAlpine #iamthestorm #SpeakOut ...
RT @EVAWuk: "Among women aged 18-24, 97% said they had been sexually harassed, while 80% of women of all ages said they had experienced sexual harassment in public spaces." Shocking findings in the @guardian today. https://t.co/BCn62A...
'Susan Smith, of women’s rights group For Women Scot, said the Bill was “doubly problematic” for women as it threatened their freedom of speech as well as failed to “implement the recommendation of Lord Bracadale to include sex in the legislation”.' ...
Eleventh-hour bid to stop controversial Hate Crime Bill
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Brutal murders in rural Venezuela highlight violence against women » Borneo Bulletin Online
'Last year, during the coronavirus pandemic, 256 women were murdered – an increase of more than 50 per cent on the previous year.' #Venezuela #Femicide https://t.co/5JkTa5...
Feminists force change to guidance on census sex question
'The Office of National Statistics has been forced to rewrite its guidance to the census question asking a person’s sex following a victory for feminist campaigners at the High Court.' With thanks to @fairplaywomen #SexMatters https://t.co/8sdqiZ...
'A full judicial review will take place next week before the census day, but the judge made the interim order saying he was satisfied the campaign group was "more likely than not to succeed" on its case regarding the legal definition of "sex".' ...
Russian Feminists through the Archives
'Gathered on microfilm from twenty-three archives over several decades of research by Davis Center Associate Rochelle Ruthchild, this collection brings together an array of primary source print materials concerning women’s lives and political ...
Oil companies want you to think they're feminist. It's BS.
'While oil companies celebrate milestones of installing women in leadership positions with cutesy tweets, women around the world continue to suffer assault, displacement, and death due to the effects of oil extraction.' by @HerrCaitlin #EcoFeminism ...
Disabled women having difficulty accessing basic health services, committee hears
'Ms McGovern spoke about a 2014 EU survey [finding] 34 per cent of #women with a health problem or #disability experienced physical or sexual partner violence, compared with 19 per cent of women without a health problem or disability.' ...
Female workers at H&M supplier in India allege widespread sexual violence
Time to make Women the supervisors @hm 'They described a working environment in which male supervisors wielded “total power” over the women beneath them.' https://t.co/5FprZh...
How the Proletarian Women’s Movement Resisted Anti-Feminism
'Complaints about sexist behavior and a lack of support were commonplace... in 1896, Luise Kähler .. protested: “Many male comrades treat the women’s question so facetiously that we must wonder whether they really support equal rights at all.” ...