RT @FiLiA_charity: "Spreading petrol at our shelters, the bottles of petrol surrounded the place where we stay, as a mother it’s terrible our kids as we shouted they started crying ,we don’t deserve this life." KYAZIKE REGINAH BLOCK 13 #Block13 ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: "I wrote this book for anyone who wants to understand this strange current moment, with male athletes allowed to compete as females ...and women who try to oppose these awful policies shouted down" @HJoyceGender #FiLiA2021 ...
"I wrote this book for anyone who wants to understand this strange current moment, with male athletes allowed to compete as females, gender non-conforming children put on the path to sterilisation - and women who try to oppose these awful policies ...
RT @ArticulateDinos: 100s of trees to be clearcut for camp of 100s of men to build multi-billion$$ G7 state-owned ecocidal #Tarsands pipeline across unsurrendered Secwepemc territory defying Secwepemc laws & Human Rights, ignoring #MMIWG threat ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: "Extreme misogyny needs to be recognised as an ideology in its own right – and one that carries an unacceptable risk of radicalising bitter young men." @polblonde #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | Portsmouth https://t.co/X6dOC6...
"Extreme misogyny needs to be recognised as an ideology in its own right – and one that carries an unacceptable risk of radicalising bitter young men." Joan Smith #FiLiA2021 |16th-17th October | Portsmouth http://www.filia.or...
RT @FiLiA_charity: KAKUMA 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗥 Block 13 Kakuma refugee camp; another arson attack. Lesbians being targeted. Please support our campaign now. before another death. #AlutaContinua #Block13 #KakumaCampaign https://t.co/pfs9Yn... https://t.co/iujL ...
'MEN feel they are at liberty to perpetrate all sorts of crimes on #women. This is because of the cultural dynamics of this country, and often this is not reported. Omogolo Taunyane at the first Mamas Alliance GBV and #femicide webinar ...
'Almost half of 2,000 working women surveyed said they were reconsidering career options to allow more flexibility. Fewer than one in 10 women whose bosses have revealed the office return policy can choose their own working patterns.' ...
RT @ananyapaints: It’s 2021 and an Art Director from a publishing house has decided it’s OK to whitewash one of my illustrations by *literally* editing the skin colour of the characters to be white. Peep the original and edited version. The original ...
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"Our grassroots activism demands a system change, based on the belief that all girls and women should be treated with the same law in this country. MEWSo's four campaigns are a message to the communitiy's women and girls. Through education, ...
RT @FiLiA_charity: "Our grassroots activism demands a system change, based on the belief that all girls and women should be treated with the same law in this country." Halaleh Taheri @MewsOrg #FiLiA2021 | 16th-17th October | Portsmouth ...
The story of the longest strike in British history
'The strike was remarkable because it was the children themselves, or at least the older children, who organised it. The leader of the strike is acknowledged to be a 13-year-old girl named Violet Potter.' https://t.co/EC9K69...
'Representatives from the @ScottishTUC women’s committee branded the Scottish government hypocritical for claiming to be committed to eradicating child poverty and choosing not to introduce universal free school meals (UFSM) to all.' ...
Fundamentalists are still being given too much of a free pass on child abuse
'...victim blaming, shame and honour; approaches to discussions of sex and sexuality; the use of religious texts and beliefs; patriarchy; abuse of power by religious leaders; resistance to external agencies ... have rarely been enumerated before ...' ...
MALE VIOLENCE MONITORING REPORT AUGUST 2021: Men kill 34 women in August
'Men killed three women "out of jealousy", they killed one woman "because she was talking too much", killed two #women "because they forced him to harvest hazelnuts", one woman "because she told him to not smoke" ... @bianet_eng #Turkey #Femicide ...
Denmark: Migrants may be forced to work for welfare benefits
'According to the government, six out of 10 women from the #MiddleEast, #NorthAfrica and #Turkey do not participate in the Danish labor market. Frederiksen made it clear on Tuesday that "#women with non-Western background" were the target of the new ...
Afghan women to be banned from playing sport, Taliban say
'In an interview with the Australian broadcaster SBS, the deputy head of the #Taliban’s cultural commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq, said women’s sport was considered neither appropriate nor necessary.' #Afghanistan #Women https://t.co/pJVOxx...
Fine particulate matter may affect racial, ethnic differences in AD
'Black women had a higher incidence rate (4.88 vs. 2.41 cases per 1,000 person-years) and were more likely to be younger, live in the South, smoke and have lower household incomes and education levels than white women.' #Alzheimers ...
First black woman deacon says plans to dissolve parish ‘feel personal’
'Rev Clarke, who was also among the first women to be ordained priest in 1994, said due process had not been followed and she had not been consulted about the changes.' #racism #sexism #ReverendYvonneClar... #SouthwarkDiocese https://t.co/5e9ZLS...
The women and children of Afghanistan need urgent assistance - The BMJ
'#Afghanistan needs both immediate and long term solutions to avoid health service disruptions and to protect the health status of Afghans, especially the vulnerable, #women, #infants, and #children.' @bmj_latest https://t.co/obKv6D...
Syrian refugees in NI 'trapped' in poverty and trauma
"They're living in matchbox-sized accommodation five years later, when they were promised they'd be moved to permanent, decent housing within a year," Briege McPherson from the @thewomenscen #Syria #Refugee #Women https://t.co/CjowJ2...
Gender-specific service for women in addiction ‘urgently needed’, says MQI
“It’s more normalised for men to be in #addiction and to be getting help than it is for #women. For women it doesn’t feel as acceptable. Women’s addiction is just not something that’s really talked about much.” by Kitty Holland gender ➡️ sex ...