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Building Sisterhood and Solidarity, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Defending Women’s Human Rights #FiLiA2025 is in Southern England October 10-12 2025 Tickets and so much more @ https://linktr.ee/filiauk
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#FiLiA cards are appearing in the wild! Have you spotted any in your area? 🤓 Get your tickets for #FiLiA2025 filia.org.uk/tickets #FiLiACard #Sisterhood #Solidarity #Eastleigh #Hampshire #VotesForWomen

#FiLiAHagueMums are now on #Bluesky - give them a follow! @filiahaguemums.bsky.social #Sisterhood #Solidarity #Amparo #HagueMothersVoices

Did you know we also produce a weekly #FiLiA #newsletter 📰 Sign up to receive the latest feminist updates and news from #FiLiA and from across the world – usually lands every #Friday 🔥 🔗 explore.filia.org.uk/newsletter-s... #Sisterhood and #Solidarity ♀️

Our #easyfundraising community has raised £102.49 for #FiLiA this #DonationDay! Help continue our success, support us on @easyfundraising.bsky.social Sign up & turn online shopping at over 8,000 retailers into #free donations. #Fundraising #helpasisterout www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/filia/

The #FiLiA newsletter is out & it is PACKED! FiLiA in #Strasbourg, visit to @sisterssalon.bsky.social, #volunteer with Art@FiLiA, #FiLiA2025 site visit, @filiahaguemums.bsky.social #Amparo, letter to #YvetteCooperMP & more! ➕TWO FREE events in #Glasgow & #Swansea 🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/filia-...

We have written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, asking that the #police ‘are given the power to remove the vetting from police officers who demonstrate attitudes entirely incompatible with the government’s intention to achieve a major reduction in #MVAWG’ 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

It’s nearly time for the next #FiLiAFeministFriday in #Glasgow! Meet with other Women, share our concerns, rage & laughter, with a view to achieving change. Cakes & a social afterwards 🍰 Come with a friend or by yourself – we want you there! 🎫 buytickets.at/filia1/1545442 #Sisterhood

Free #FiLiA Women’s Assembly #IWD event in #Swansea on March 8th, 12-4pm. Meet with other Women to talk about the things that are important to us, to socialise, with talks and stalls too! 📧 [email protected] for more details #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #InternationalWomensDay #Wales

📢 Save the date. SBS is delighted to invite all to an inspiring evening with writer & activist @rahilag.bsky.social in conversation with journalist & author @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social at Gunnersbury Park Museum on Sun, 23 March from 4.30pm. 1/2 Book tix ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-of-...

We have written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, asking that the #police ‘are given the power to remove the vetting from police officers who demonstrate attitudes entirely incompatible with the government’s intention to achieve a major reduction in #MVAWG’ 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

"Mr Robinson came under fire from the Sisters Salon reps for referring to the dancers as “girls” Ms Jakubovic asked for confirmation they are “adult women”" www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/02/17/s... Our hearing statement & our full objections ⬇️ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/sister-salon...

BLOG: With Labour’s pledges to halve violence against women & girls in the next 10 years, there is only one fair and lawful answer to this week’s strip club licence hearing. And that is to remove it. brightonsisters.wordpress.com/whats-new-pu... #SistersSalon #MeToo #Consent #NotBuyingIt

“I have read many reports about hotel guests being surveilled by spy cameras. It seems nearly impossible to safeguard ourselves from prying eyes. This deeply concerns me,” #China #SpyCam #SpyCamPorn #MVAWG #maleviolence #HiddenCamera www.scmp.com/news/people-...

'"Cutting aid would be a death sentence to us," warns Amal, a mother of nine. She lives in a camp for internally displaced people in northern #Yemen, alongside thousands of other families.' #MiddleEast #USAID #USAIDGATE #NGOs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“It’s no coincidence that this has happened so soon after JD Vance & his supporters have spread toxic misinformation about #Scotland. It is vital that we stand up for repro rights & against those who are working to undermine them.” #AbortionRights #Glasgow www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

*MILLION WOMEN RISE 2025* Saturday, 8th March 2025. *Where and when:* Meet from 12pm on Duke Street (next to Selfridges), just off Oxford Street, nearest Tubes Bond St and Marble Arch. More info MILLIONWOMENRISE.COM

'There is only so long a fundamental untruth can be allowed to thrive in a liberal democracy.' #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #GRRBill #WomenWontWheesht #ScottishLabour #AnasSarwar #Hounded #JennyLindsay #womensrightsarehumanrights www.spectator.co.uk/article/wome...

'This week in #Scotland there are many people, most of them women, who feel a strong urge to shout “I Told You So, You F***ing Fools” from every available rooftop.' #GRRBill #NoToSelfID #ScottishLabour #AnasSarwar #GenderRecognitionReform #WomenWontWheesht 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

'The chef, who asked not to be named as she fears speaking out could damage her career, said she had seen “more and more women drop out, leaving professional kitchens to do their own thing — and it makes sense why”.' #FoodSky #Chefs #MeToo #Sexism #misogyny www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

'Most estimates state that over six million people have died, making it the deadliest conflict since World War II. But many of us who live in #Congo believe that the real number is much higher. And the world remains largely silent.' #DRC #EyesOnCongo #Africa www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...

'That is a shocking record, given the abundant evidence that more women are driven to suicide by their abusers than are killed by them' @verabaird.bsky.social guest blog for #centreforwomensjustice #Suicide #MentalHealth #WomenMatter #femicide www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/new-blog-1/2...

'Two #police officers who waited outside a woman’s home & listened to her being murdered by her abusive partner while waiting for permission from bosses to go inside will face misconduct hearings.' #HerNameWasTaiwoAbodunde #SayHerName #femicide #TaiwoAbodunde #MVAWG metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/p...

'Two of his five victims have since died, with Judge Robert Spragg saying one of them had taken their own life as a "direct result" of Stewart's actions and Royal Mail's failure to respond to complaints about him.' #RoyalMail #MVAWG #maleviolence #criminaljustice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Additionally, while knowledge of the best method for preventing sexually transmitted infections is high among young people, knowledge of women’s fertility is much lower.' #Ireland #YoungWomen #WomensHealth #ReproRights #BirthControl #Education www.thejournal.ie/some-young-a...

'These #widows are known as “bisarparast” (or “without a guardian”), and they are left to fend for themselves in a world that offers little to no help.' #Afghanistan #AfghanWomen #bisarparast #NoTaliban #EndGenderApartheid www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/02/afgh...

'The reaction from these anti-abortion states has been to curtail data collection and disregard reality – if there’s no documentation of women dying, did it happen at all?' #US #AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionBan #TrumpsAmerica #WomensHealth #ReproRights www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...

'She said a male-only congregation at a local mosque was instructed not to re-elect her in upcoming local elections, and her marriage to a white man was "used to paint her as inherently anti-Muslim and lacking in sexual morals".' @natsecsoc.bsky.social www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/02...

'There were so many amazing takeaways from this project, about how strong women are, as well as the empathy of the #midwives, whose role is so intense they’d often do back-to-back births without any sleep.' #childbirth #pregnancy #womensart #photography www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Free #FiLiA Women’s Assembly #IWD event in #Swansea on March 8th, 12-4pm. Meet with other Women to talk about the things that are important to us, to socialise, with talks and stalls too! 📧 [email protected] for more details #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #InternationalWomensDay #Wales

I have written a response to the article by Fried, Miller, Malik and Radacic that was published in 'Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters' on my alleged "misuse of evidence" for my 2024 report on #prostitution and violence against women and girls.

FiLiA cards are appearing in the wild! Have you spotted any in your area? 🤩 Join us at #FiLiA2025 in October 🎫 filia.org.uk/tickets #FiLiACard #Sisterhood #Solidarity #TateModern #London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #YokoOno

'The House of Representatives has urged relevant federal government agencies to enforce stricter penalties against homicide and #femicide in Nigeria.' #Nigeria #MVAWG #maleviolence guardian.ng/news/rising-...

'For every week without #USAID, nearly one million women and girls worldwide are denied contraceptive care, according to analysis from the Guttmacher Institute, a leading reproductive health policy organisation.' #USAIDGATE #TrumpsAmerica #ReproRights www.independent.co.uk/news/world/u...

“You have to be an #Afghan woman to truly understand how difficult it has been to give up everything you worked for. We showed to the world that the #Taliban have not changed and will not change. And it scares them,” #EndGenderApartheid #Afghanistan #NoTaliban www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

'The case in #Rawalpindi has sparked widespread outrage and posts with the hashtag #JusticeforIqra having garnered tens of thousands of views, and reignited a debate over child labour and the mistreatment of domestic workers.' #Pakistan #ChildLabour #girlsmatter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'‘Widespread’ and ‘culturally embedded’ #ageism requires stronger legal protections against age discrimination and a new cross-Government strategy to address the challenges and opportunities posed by the UK’s ageing population' #OlderWomen committees.parliament.uk/committee/32...

'In a letter seen by The Times, General Sir Roly Walker said he was disgusted by the treatment of female officers & soldiers and suggested that senior ranks might even be “actively complicit” in the behaviour.' #EnoughlsEnough #ArmedForcesMeToo #ArmedServicesMeToo www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

'Among the protesters are elderly women holding slogans reading "Omas gegen Rechts" or "Grannies against far right". For these women, who grew up in post-war #Germany, the prospect of the far right returning to power is inconceivable.' #AfD #Bundestagswahl2025 www.france24.com/en/video/202...

'Among their demands is for character references to be outlawed in cases of gender-based violence and for the practice of a victim’s counselling notes being used in court to be banned.' #Ireland #MVAWG #maleviolence #Legal #CriminalJustice www.thejournal.ie/internationa...

'But skeptical state lawmakers and abortion rights advocates have raised alarms about data privacy protections and what amounts to “government surveillance” tracking people [sic] who could seek an #abortion.' #Missouri #TrumpsAmerica #AbortionIsHealthcare #USA www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

'Findings... indicate that #US states with #abortionbans experienced higher-than-expected fertility & infant mortality rates, particularly affecting Black infants, younger individuals, those with lower education levels & #Medicaid recipients' #AbortionIsHealthcare medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02...

'The subtitle of Darian’s book is: “turning our family trauma of chemical submission into a collective fight”. It speaks to the transformative power of activism.' #France #JusticeForGisele #Pelicot #ShameSwitchesSides #MerciGisele #Mazan theconversation.com/faced-with-t...

Without demand from men who pay for sex, there would be no 'supply' of women to be abused in the prostitution and sex trafficking trade. 🗓️ On Monday 24 Feb our Vice Chair @carolynharris.bsky.social will ask the Government during Home Office Qs what action it is taking to reduce demand.

'The #Scottish Labour leader has said he “regrets” supporting gender recognition reform and would have opposed it in #Holyrood “knowing what we know now”.' #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #GRRBill #WomenWontWheesht www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...