TO SHARE: Jess Asato MP is suing Elon Musk’s XAI, the creators of Grok, after the chatbot was used to create fake, nonconsensual sexualised images of her - including a video showing her being sexually assaulted. Repost to show your support. @jessasatomp.bsky.social

✊ We look forward to continuing our work with Office for Equality and Opportunity to strengthen Equality Impact Assessments (EqIAs) and the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) to ‘make policy work for women’. www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

Policy with Women in Mind — FiLiA

FiLiA’s Making Policy Work for Women campaign calls on policy makers to make policy feminist – to incorporate the differential impacts on women in the design and development of all policies and to use...

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💜 We're pleased to see @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social reappointed as Minister for Women and Equalities. ⚖️ There must be no rollback of women’s, girls’ and lesbians’ rights as the Equality Act 2010, as clarified by the Supreme Court, is implemented. www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

The EHRC Code of Practice Has Finally Been Laid — FiLiA

This is a significant legal and political moment: the Minister for Women and Equalities has laid guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about how organisations should apply the ...

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We're pleased to hear that some FiLiA volunteers are already contacting their MPs to ask them to sign the EDM. If you'd like to do the same, you can find your MP here: members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

Find your MP - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament

Enter your postcode, location, MPs name or job title to find the name and contact details of your local MP.

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Thank you, too, to MPs who have already added their names. Earlier this week, we wrote to Amnesty setting out our concerns and asking them to address these issues. Our letter to Amnesty ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/fili...

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🧵Alongside numerous other groups, we have written to @amnestyuk.bsky.social, following the inclusion of FiLiA in their (now withdrawn) report A Growing Threat - the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK. Read our letter here ➡️ filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-Letter-to-Amnesty-International-UK-July-2026.pdf

Amnesty UK self-reports to watchdog after calling JK Rowling women’s centre ‘anti-rights’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Amnesty UK self-reports to watchdog after calling JK Rowling women’s centre ‘anti-rights’

Beira’s Place in Edinburgh, founded by the author, says claim was ‘deeply offensive’ as it considers legal action

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🧵Alongside numerous other groups, we have written to @amnestyuk.bsky.social, following the inclusion of FiLiA in their (now withdrawn) report A Growing Threat - the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK. Read our letter here ➡️ filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-Letter-to-Amnesty-International-UK-July-2026.pdf

Iconic feminist graffitti (UK), 1979, photographed by Jill Posener, British photographer and activist #womensart

13 June 1882 | A German Jewish woman, Helene Dorner, was born in Berlin. In June 1943 she was incarcerated in #Theresienstadt Ghetto and in October 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Last week, I was delighted to host the launch of the @filiacharity.bsky.social #NoMoreStripClubs campaign in Parliament, calling for an end to the licensing of strip clubs and stronger action to tackle the harms linked to sexual exploitation and violence against women and girls. 👇

Read the full report and summary on our research page: 🔗 filia.org.uk/strip-clubs-... #NoMoreStripClubs #WomensVoices @jessasatomp.bsky.social @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social

As #Cardiff was one of the cities included, great coverage of our strip club research in Herald Wales. ‘Local women also described a disproportionate number of single mothers working in Cardiff’s strip clubs, linking this to financial hardship & limited alternatives.’ herald.wales/south-wales/...

New research supports campaign to rid Cardiff streets of strip clubs - Herald.Wales

NEW RESEARCH research released from UK women's right's charity FiLiA reveals women want strip clubs closed. They say the clubs are harmful and

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📢Great news! Dr Laura Favaro will be on #BBCWomansHour tomorrow, discussing her original research for #FiLiA: Life near Strip Clubs: Women's Voices from UK Cities. 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x5rv Listen live from 10am on BBC Radio4, BBC Sounds or catch-up wherever you get your podcasts.

Huge thanks to @jessasatomp.bsky.social for hosting the well-attended and action-focused launch of our new report by Dr Laura Favaro: Life near Strip Clubs: Women’s Voices from UK Cities, in Parliament yesterday. Read the report here: www.filia.org.uk/strip-clubs-... #NoMoreStripClubs

Read our statement re: @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social laying the @equalityhumanright.bsky.social EHRC Code of Practice here ⬇️ 🔗➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #NoMoreExcuses

The EHRC Code of Practice Has Finally Been Laid — FiLiA

This is a significant legal and political moment: the Minister for Women and Equalities has laid guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about how organisations should apply the ...

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No one should face arrest, prison, or violence simply for who they are or for expressing affection. Right now, Wendy Faith and Diana Denise need urgent support. Sign the petition and call for dropping of charges. a.allout.org/s/P202e/

Justice for Wendy Faith and Diana Denise

No one should face arrest, prison, or violence simply for who they are or for expressing affection. Right now, Wendy Faith and Diana Denise need urgent support. Sign the petition and call for dropping...

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🔶 More than half the women in the Snapshot are mothers. 77% of them have been separated from their children. We pay tribute to the courage, resilience and tenacity of the women that we work with. 🔎 Read the report at bit.ly/FiLiA-WF-Snapshot-2025 #SnapshotInsights #SheCounts

🧵 Over a week in October 2025, five specialist orgsanisations in England & Wales, Kairos Women Working Together, nia, Street Talk, Women at the Well and The Swan Project, took part in a ‘snapshot’ exercise, collecting the experiences of 91 women involved in the commercial sex trade. #SheCounts

The Bill would enable Scotland to meet the FIVE recommendations that our Women First – Real Solutions to Prostitution coalition has called for. 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/women-first Let’s take this opportunity to show that in #Scotland, Women are #Unbuyable

Real Solutions to Prostitution — FiLiA

We are a coalition between survivors of the sex trade and professionals working in the VAWG sector.

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Studies have repeatedly shown the appalling levels of violence Women are subjected to by sex buyers and this Bill provides the opportunity to hold them to account. We support our Scottish Sisters that are calling for this legislation. 🔗 unbuyable.org/

Today the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill will be debated in the Scottish parliament. We ask Scottish MSPs to attend & engage in the debate and ensure they take this opportunity to stand with survivors and hear their calls for protection. 🔗 www.parliament.scot/bills-and-la...

We remember Lord David Triesman with gratitude. He was an early Labour voice willing to speak plainly about women’s rights and the importance of single-sex provision. This clip from 2020 is a reminder of his courage and clarity — and how much has changed since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBdM...

Excerpt from House of Lords Questions on the Government Equalities Office GRA Statement 25.09.20

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We welcome Anas Sarwar’s commitment to ensure women’s prisons are genuinely single-sex & act quickly if Labour takes office in Scotland. This reflects Supreme Court’s clear law on sex & women’s safety. We urge UK Labour to match this clarity and act nationwide. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

Trans prisoners to be banned from female jails if Scottish Labour wins election

EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Labour leader said prisons must be 'single-sex spaces" in the wake of the Isla Bryson scandal.

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This looks fascinating. Am keen to find out if /when will be published in the UK...

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Announcing My Next Book, All in Your Head: Illness as Identity, Trauma as Fashion, and the Desire to Be Disordered • coming from Simon & Schuster 10/27

Proud that @filiacharity.bsky.social is among the many organisations supporting Ash Regan MSP's #Unbuyable Bill. 📺 Watch the debate in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow after 2pm: www.scottishparliament.tv

We stand ready to support effective delivery of this strategy, informed by our co-produced work and the expertise of grassroots Women affected by #MVAWG every day. Image: @makoveitchoux.bsky.social #FiLiA2022

🧵 We welcome the long-awaited #VAWG strategy, published today. It includes some promising initiatives, many of which were signalled ahead of today’s launch, and it is positive to see renewed focus on this national emergency. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Freedom from violence and abuse: a cross-government strategy

This strategy sets out the government’s vision and actions for meeting its ambition to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.

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🧵 Last month, FiLiA welcomed our new Director of Research, Dr Laura Favaro, who will bring together FiLiA’s diverse strands of research to establish a dedicated space for the production of high-quality, feminist-driven research: the FiLiA Research Hub. #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

Important @ukhouseoflords.bsky.social debate last week on Govt's #VAWG strategy: #FGM, honour-based abuse, online #misogyny, CSE & role of the new Victims’ Commissioner. 📺 youtu.be/evl7kUzji1Y Peers’ asked Lord Hanson ‘when’ the strategy will be published, he repeatedly answered ‘very soon’...⏰

What is the government doing to reduce violence against women and girls?

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