RT @SophieRunning: It's #COP26 "Gender Day." If you're spending one day at your two-week conference to consider the needs of the other half of the population, don't you think you might be doing it wrong? #GroundhogDay #COP26Glasgow
RT @SexMattersOrg: Listen again @MForstater on @StephenNolan w @EJWoolf (5:40) Talking periods: @SDLPlive Bill on "period poverty" which does not mention women or girls How can you measure the effectiveness of a policy if you don't specify who it is ...
RT @libby_brooks: In the blue zone right now: memorial to the Indigenous women missing and murdered as a result of the climate crisis https://t.co/2nMiVG...
Greek minister urges victims to ‘speak up’ amid wave of domestic violence
'Greece is to launch a public campaign urging victims of domestic violence to “speak up” after a spate of femicides whose ferocity has stunned the nation.' https://t.co/YtWWUh...
#FiLiA2021 Closing Speech by Raquel Rosario Sánchez — FiLiA
"I am standing before you as a Spokeswoman and Trustee, but the reality is that FiLiA is all the women who donate their time and their efforts to our charity." https://t.co/gB3aON...
Referees go on strike due to abuse from parents and coaches at underage games
'“Over last weekend, a female refereeing her first game of three games was abused so badly from the time she entered the pitch that she decided not to take any more of this abuse from these people. She has now chosen to give up refereeing entirely.' ...
Disability pay gap: Disabled workers get £3,458 less per year - The Big Issue
'disabled women face an even bigger pay gap, with non-disabled men paid on average 32 per cent (£3.50 an hour, or around £6,370 a year) more than disabled women.' https://t.co/5hYvOC...
Turkey is using chemical weapons in its attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan
Dr Rûken Samsun, of the YJA Star Free Women’s Troops: 'Chemical weapons are banned worldwide. The use of chemical weapons against the guerrillas is immoral.' https://t.co/5avvjr...
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp changed the world – and my life
'Greenham tested to the limit your physical, mental and emotional endurance; your patience, your compassion and every belief and prejudice you ever possessed. And then it tested you some more.' https://t.co/oLS3Cw...
Poland clarifies abortion law after protests over mother’s death
'But protesters say there will be similar cases in the future unless the law is changed. Huge protests against the law were held in dozens of Polish cities on Saturday.' https://t.co/8lM2ep...
End Violence Against Women In Politics: Pressure Group - NewZimbabwe.com
'The Women Network Reform: “We further call upon society at large to fearlessly defend women in politics because they too must enjoy equal participation as full citizens in their own right." https://t.co/WRtQAC...
Why Does Spain’s Progressive Prime Minister Want to Ban Prostitution?
'some 80 to 90 percent of all sex workers [sic] in Spain are migrant women from Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Most of them live in poverty.' https://t.co/Hh7SrM...
Inequality and discrimination among NHS staff worsening, report says
'After nine years’ service, 41 per cent of male nurses progressed up two pay bands compared with 20 per cent of female nurses, according to the report.' https://t.co/CsTSA5...