Calling #UK #VAWG peeps You may have spoken to Reem @unsrvaw.bsky.social in 2024 or you may have missed her but you can hear her speak about her visit & report at this #CWASU event on 25/9. She will be in discussion w' @proflizkelly.bsky.social & me. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

Joining the Dots: International Conversations on Violence Against Women.

Reem AlSaleem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against women and Girls, joins us to discuss her recommendations for the UK

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With a foreword by @proflizkelly.bsky.social, and chapters entitled: Building a Movement; Looking Outwards; The Unyielding Heart of the Struggle: Violence against Women; Sexual Terrorism? Pornography and prostitution; The Tail Wags the Dog: The gender/sex debate;

📣📣📣 Mark your diaries: 25 September 1700 BST Reem AlSalem will be discussing her #UK report on #VAWG with me & Liz Kelly Join us to hear about the report & to discuss what needs to doing now Registration link coming next week #unsrvaw @unsrvaw.bsky.social @profLizKelly.bsky.social #cwasu

This article takes *17 paragraphs* to even mention the privatisation of England's water supply, and even then it does so in an equivocal 'some say' fashion - without mentioning, for example, that England is one of the only countries in the world with privatised water. Excrable journalism as usual.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

How can England possibly be running out of water?

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 HISTORY OF ACTIVISM AGAINST MVAWG. Join us for a conversation on the history of the women’s movement & activism against #MVAWG, with four trailblazing who helped shape it @proflizkelly.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity #Brighton

We were honoured to welcome @drsarahyde.bsky.social, @purnasen.bsky.social, @proflizkelly.bsky.social, @jessasatomp.bsky.social & Sarah Russell at the launch of our new pamphlet, ‘Only Halfway? A Rights-Based Approach to Ending Violence Against Women in the UK’ Here were some key insights shared 🧵

Active in the field of violence against women & children for 40 years, @proflizkelly.bsky.social authored Surviving Sexual Violence, available at #OurFeministLibrary 🔗 uk.bookshop.org/a/7614/9780745604633 Watch her in convo with @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social at #FiLiA2023 📺 youtu.be/3e3ZDnHfRyY

FiLiA2023 Secrets and Silence

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Saturday #FiLiA2025 news! @proflizkelly.bsky.social, Director of Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit, Professor of sexualised violence, Roddick Chair on Violence Against Women and former co-chair of EVAW, will be speaking at #FiLiA. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #EVAW #VAWG #ChildAbuse

Come and hear Catherine MacKinnons latest take on prostitution. This Friday 5pm GMT. Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

Joining the Dots: International Conversations on Violence Against Women.

Legalised Prostitution- a crime against humanity? with Prof Catharine A. MacKinnon and Max Waltman

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Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

"Seadog" (Otter) animal thread painting - hand embroidery artwork by Emily Tull, wildlife portrait artist and embroiderer #WomensArt

This is an era where it’s really important to know your rights and to make sure others around you know their rights, NO, ICE cannot enter your home without a *judicial* warrant. Not an administrative one like what they were trying to use with the WI judge to arrest someone. A judge-signed warrant.

Surprise surprise...

Reform UK candidates have ‘posted hate, pushed far-right conspiracies and praised extremists’, investigation finds

The 'vetting processes' have failed yet again...

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We are supporting the launch of @rahilag.bsky.social and Beatrix Campbell's new book, Planet Patriarchy The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and is chaired by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social 🗓️ 3rd July 6.30pm BST 📌 Women's Resource Centre, London 🎟️ bit.ly/PlanetPatriarchy #PlanetPatriarchy

Usually, weekends mean listening to jazz music. Yesterday and today, I listened to great jazz guitarists : Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, etc. And Emily Remler's double live album, released late last year. Superb collection.

#JoiningTheDots tomorrow 9 April - a chance to hear about * the women’s house * 50:50 government structures * ending #Sharia laws …and more With @RahilaG and Behiye Murad 1700 BST C/o CWASU Join us! 👇🏽 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

Joining the Dots: International Conversations on Violence Against Women.

Series Four, Session Three: The Women's Revolution of Rojava, Syria

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Time to sign up! What can we learn from #Rojava? #VAWG #DomesticViolence #Sharia #Polygamy #ChildMarriage #JoiningTheDots at #CWASU 9 April

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📢 The women’s revolution in Rojava, Syria Join CWASU, @rahilag.bsky.social, and Behiye Murad online on Wed 9th April at 5pm for Joining the Dots: International Conversations on Violence Against Women convened by @purnasen.bsky.social to learn more. Register 👇🏾 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

#JoiningTheDots reconvenes on 9 April to discuss #Rojava - where they developed specific approaches to #VAWG Jail time for #domesticViolence #perpetrators is one method they use With #RahilaGupta in London and #BehiyeMurad in Rojava Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

Joining the Dots: International Conversations on Violence Against Women.

Series Four, Session Three: The Women's Revolution of Rojava, Syria

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The women's revolution in #Rojava has adopted novel ways of dealing with #DomesticViolence such as jail time & gender equality training for #perpetrators. Join @RahilaGupta (London), Behiye Murad (Rojava) and me on 9 April, 1700 BST to learn more! #JoiningTheDots rb.gy/f1apyd

Joining the Dots: International Conversations on Violence Against Women.

Series Four, Session Three: The Women's Revolution of Rojava, Syria

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The USA stopping support for #contraception and #abortion means that #women across the world will feel the harsh consequences. Many will die - avoidable deaths. 💔💔💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h... Join us tomorrow / 4 April to discuss #SRHR 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Trump Aid Cuts End Contraception Access for Millions of Women

The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.

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Purna@purnasen.bsky.social · 2y ago

#JoiningTheDots on 4 April: sexual and reproductive rights and health in a rapidly changing policy context. Come hear from: Sandra Oyarzo in Chile, prez @internationalmidwives.org Prossy Muyingo, Community health worker in Uganda Roopa Dhatt in Washington DC cwasu.org/session-two-... Register 👇

Be sure to join us on Friday 4 April to hear about current and anticipated challenges on sexual and reproductive rights #SRR #SHRR #CWASU #JoiningTheDots Register below👇🏽

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#JoiningTheDots on 4 April: sexual and reproductive rights and health in a rapidly changing policy context. Come hear from: Sandra Oyarzo in Chile, prez @internationalmidwives.org Prossy Muyingo, Community health worker in Uganda Roopa Dhatt in Washington DC cwasu.org/session-two-... Register 👇

In Costa Rica for my daughters birthday, birds and monkeys

Yes please and all countries need to follow suit. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ban on unregulated experts in family courts proposed for England and Wales

Public are consulted after children removed from parents on evidence of psychologists without right qualifications

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Leading one to necessarily reflect on the 'inevitable fallibility of policing' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The inevitable fallibility of policing

The title of this paper is taken from the final sentence of the book How People Judge Policing (Waddington et al. [2017]. How People Judge Policing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.) which, though ...

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A Sunday morning thought about frontline policing.

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit

Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

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Cécile Nobrega (1919 – 2013), Guyanese-born UK poet, playwright, composer, activist who led a 15-year campaign to establish the 1st public statue of a Black woman to be on permanent display in England - 'Bronze Woman', Stockwell, London #WomensArt

Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No 13, 1915 #womensart

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine

HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.

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The online world is indeed a 'free-for-all' that we are failing to regulate. We bow down to tech giants while abuse intensifies online. But we carry on, making the case, as is powerfully shown here. www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/onli...

Online world is ‘free-for-all’ for offenders, sexual abuse survivor says

A survivor of sexual abuse who now educates young people about the issue has described the online world as a “free-for-all,” adding offenders “aren’t afraid” of committing crimes there.

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