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We're delighted to publish our new FiLiA Activity Booklet filled with news about our work throughout the year and how this develops out of ideas that emerge through our conferences and our discussions with local Women – with thanks to all of them for working with us, and thanks to Sisters Trust for enabling the FiLiA Legacy Project to continue.
It is often said that women are the ‘shock absorbers’ of poverty. More likely to live in poverty, managing tight budgets and going without to protect others from hardship. New research from the Trussell Trust has laid bare the scale of hunger across the country, the disproportionate impact it has on women and how we can change it.
An interview with Arely Reyes Castillo, a Mexican feminist recently prosecuted and incarcerated because of her activism. Her ordeal illustrates the political persecution that feminist campaigners and other activists in Mexico are subjected to by government institutions and the severe consequences of this criminalisation.
A mother who fled domestic violence with her daughter has been forced to hand her 2-year-old over to a father who has made death threats to both the mother and the child. He will take the child - who, until a few days ago, was still being breastfed - back to his own country on the other side of the world. This is the brutality of the Hague Convention. We have written to the Attorney-General to ask that he urgently intercede.
Maryam Namazie, spokesperson of One Law for All and Lisa-Marie Taylor, CEO of FiLiA are calling on women to join them in solidarity with Iran’s women’s revolution for a mass hair-cutting.
