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Building Sisterhood and Solidarity, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Defending Women’s Human Rights #FiLiA2025 is in Brighton, East Sussex October 10-12 2025
#FiLiA2025 is THREE MONTHS FROM TODAY! 👩💻 150 speakers ♀️ 3 days of #Feminism 👭 #GlobalSisterhood 💃 Women-only party! 🎨 art~stalls~merch~films~books 👩👧 Free crèche 📢 #Femicide rally 🌈 #Brighton 💥 Over 1,600 tickets sold! Updated website: 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
FiLiA cards get placed across the world this one in #Birmingham Women find them and make their way to FiLiA. We are building a global movement working towards women’s liberation. Join us by buying your ticket today filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity #FiLiACard
🎥 Lights, solidarity, action. SBS presents A Fearful Silence, supported by @Film_London, as part of the #DayDreamers festival curated by #HouseofAEIOU. Join to engage with stories of empowerment rooted in intersectional feminist values at 2.30pm, 26 July, at Dominion Centre.
The letter I have sent with other colleagues to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in #Sudan regarding the reported continued serious crimes committed against women and girls back in May 2025 is now public: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/… Unfortunately we have not received a response.
Membership of @theRCN is c90% female. Women make up 58% of trade union membership generally. We are the majority yet too often unions fail us. If you want to make unions work for women join @FiLiA_charity TU Women's Network filia.org.uk/latest-news/20… /2
"It was SO well thought out, practically, politically, socially! It was SO international in its scope and vision. It was SO inspiring." Become a Friend of FiLiA #Sisterhood #Solidarity #FiLiA2025 filia.org.uk/friends-of-fil…
📢 #FiLiA2025 speaker news! 📢 @MaryamNamazie, Iranian-born campaigner & writer, spokesperson for @CEMB_forum & @One_Law_for_All & originator of #CelebratingDissent conferences will be speaking at #FiLiA 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomanLifeFreedom #WomensRevolution #Iran
Thanks to everyone who has already signed up to the FiLiA TU Women's Women's Network. Our first newsletter will be going out to you shortly with updates and next steps. Not signed up yet? Join here filia.org.uk/filia-trade-un… #UnionsForWomen
"[The RCN] have repeatedly failed to exercise their industrial muscle to advocate for female members distressed because they are being deprived of genuine single-sex spaces to dress and undress at work." /1 #UnionsForWomen #sandiepeggietribunal heraldscotland.com/news/25325910.…
#FiLiA2025 speaker news Joining the conversation is ABIGAIL OTTLEY. @row51203 is a 'trans widow', former teacher & prize-winning poet whose collection, Out of Eden, celebrates the strength & resilience of working class women. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #TransWidow #BTLG
New date for Just a Bit of Fun – The Reality of Glasgow‘s Strip Clubs With TWO clubs up for renewal in Sept, hear the reality behind these venues, the harm caused to Women & the laws governing them. 🗓️ Fri 22nd Aug 7pm 🔗 bit.ly/FiLiASEVReality #FiLiAStripClubReality
FiLiA cards get placed across the world this one in #Ottawa Women find them and make their way to FiLiA. We are building a global movement working towards women’s liberation. Join us by buying your ticket today filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity #FiLiACard
Joanna Rowland-Stuart is a 71-year-old gay man who attacked his husband with a samurai sword "stabbing and slicing him" more than 50 times in Brighton in May 2024. ‘News outlets’ reporting this a a crime committed by a woman or wife are not worthy of that label. #NotOurCrimes
Looking forward to hearing from @beatrixcampbell and @RahilaG at #FiLiA2025 on their book #PlanetPatriarchy Tickets available NOW filia.org.uk/tickets
‘A vital, passionate and superbly written global dispatch from two of the most respected stateswomen of feminist activism.’ — Samira Ahmed, journalist and broadcaster.
'A former Kentucky police officer has been sentenced to 33 months in prison after being convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, a black woman, in her home.' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
'It all seems to stem from a misplaced – and let’s call it what it is: #racist – mindset among midwives and doctors that “strong Black women” simply don’t need as much help as other patients.' independent.co.uk/voices/black-w…
'When the charity that conducts the census received the pitiful number of responses from their FOIs, blatantly #racist terms like “dark European” and “oriental” were used to describe the murdered women the census counts' @NdayeLisa #Femicide #Scotland thenational.scot/politics/25327…
'Instead of alleviating the economic burdens on female employees and workers, the #Iranian government has intensified restrictions, depriving many women of the early retirement rights they fought for over the years.' #Iran #GlobalSisterhood #FiLiA2025 hawarnews.com/en/iran-tighte…
'Today, at the age of 92, my reproductive years are far in the past, but old age doesn’t temper the anger I feel towards the legislators who exercise their power to order a woman to carry her pregnancy to term whether she wants to or not.' huffpost.com/entry/92-year-…
"I loved it all! It was pure joy and still makes me happy every time I think of it. I am so grateful for FiLiA existing." Become a Friend of FiLiA #Sisterhood #Solidarity #FiLiA2025 filia.org.uk/friends-of-fil…
'This means that not all rape cases are treated equally. When the survivor is #Adivasi, #Dalit, or from other marginalized communities, the violence is often ignored or accepted without outrage.' #FiLiA2025 session on #Caste Tickets available NOW feminisminindia.com/2025/07/22/whe…
'In exploring #migrant women's experiences of destination workplaces, this article attempts to reverse the gaze.' "I think I stopped thinking of myself as a #woman because in most places where I've been, maybe I'm one of the… lone women many times." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gl…