Learn about the causes we are fighting for and how you can get involved.

Narrow your search or read everything.

I want to learn about
Choose format
Reset filter
How the ISS Workers Won
How the ISS Workers Won

Our ISS striking women are showing every worker how real trade unionism is done. Their inspiring struggle has set an example for the entire labour and trade union movement to follow. It’s working-class women like this who have the most to lose from the attacks on pay, conditions and public services and who have the most to gain from getting organized in the unions and fighting back. Women who are prepared to to get properly organized in their workplaces are the ones who will genuinely shape working conditions for future generations and stop society from slipping into barbarism.

BlogSara DahlenClass Politics, Representation
Third time in Kathmandu
Third time in Kathmandu

This is a followup piece about a story that we published on June 2022. Women had walked for 20 days to reach the capital of Nepal seeking justice for two women who had died due to violence. One of the women have not yet found justice. This is a reflective and informative piece on their journey for seeking justice.

BlogSara DahlenGlobal, Violence Against Women
A Thriving Industry of Surrogacy in the Global South Demonstrates its Harms for Women Everywhere
A Thriving Industry of Surrogacy in the Global South Demonstrates its Harms for Women Everywhere

Discussion on the harms of surrogacy in relation to the Global South and the developing world. The piece covers countries like India, Nepal, China and Ukraine and argues that the exploitation of women in surrogacy in this part of the world testifies to the inherently exploitative nature of surrogacy as an industry. Understanding what is happening in the developing world deepens feminist knowledge of the ethical problems with surrogacy.

BlogSara DahlenGlobal, Reproductive Rights
In Conversation with Gülsüm Kav: Feminist Activism in Turkey, 2023 Elections and Earthquakes
In Conversation with Gülsüm Kav: Feminist Activism in Turkey, 2023 Elections and Earthquakes

This is an interview with one of the founders of the "We Will Stop Femicide" Platform in Turkey. As part of its mission, the Platform collects and disseminates data on femicides in Turkey and supports victims' families during litigation processes. For more than a year, the Platform has been on trial for closure and needs international solidarity.

BlogSara DahlenGlobal, Violence Against Women
Remember Sanctuary-Seeking Women On Lesbian Visibility Day
Remember Sanctuary-Seeking Women On Lesbian Visibility Day

The women of Lesbian Immigration Support Group should be front and centre of the UK’s Lesbian Visibility Day. But instead we’ll have endless listicles about rich celebrities and posts waxing lyrical about historical white women. The irony of Lesbian Visibility Day is that we centre those who had visibility anyway; women whose status, wealth, and privilege protect them from the discrimination.

BlogSara DahlenLesbian Rights
Join Us and #Dance4Freedom
Join Us and #Dance4Freedom

In March, five young women in Iran who posted a TikTok video of themselves dancing without wearing hijab were arrested and mistreated. In support of them and their brave sisters in revolution in Iran, on and around 29 April some of us will be dancing in Piccadilly Circus, and others will be dancing around the country and sending in our videos annotated with #Dance4Freedom.

StatementsSara DahlenGlobal, Violence Against Women
A Best Friend's Handbook - A Support Resource for Teenage Girls
A Best Friend's Handbook - A Support Resource for Teenage Girls

Adolescence is a tricky period in a girl's life, with harassment and abuse being a constant feature for many. Fortunately, girls are often surrounded by allies to help them through this passage of their lives: their friends. We have created a beautifully crafted feminist handbook covering topics such as relationships, family problems, body issues and the sexualised culture that surrounds them. This Handbook is full of tips and information for girls so that they can support their friends, and indirectly support themselves too. A must for any girl growing up today.

Blog, Young FeministsSara Dahlen
Saturday April 29 is International Dance Day, so put your dancing shoes on and get ready to step out in protest!
Saturday April 29 is International Dance Day, so put your dancing shoes on and get ready to step out in protest!

Women will be dancing in solidarity with the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in protest against the Islamic Regime where dancing is forbidden & brutally punished. One Law for All and Women’s Liberation Movement charity FiLiA are again joining forces as part of the Hair4Freedom campaign launched in November 2022. This time, we will #Dance4Freedom on International Dance Day, Saturday April 29th 2023. #Dance4Freedom aims to defend the woman’s revolution in Iran via protest dance. The dance-in will be 45 minutes (accessible moves will be included), symbolic of the time it took for morality police to call an ambulance after Mahsa Amini collapsed when in detention. Mahsa Jina Amini is a young Kurdish woman killed for a few strands of hair. Her death is the spark of the women-led revolution in Iran unfolding in Iran.

StatementsSara Dahlen
Matriarchal Manifesta
Matriarchal Manifesta

International expert in Matriarchal studies, Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth shares a Matriarchal Manifesta within the context of other relevant papers about her study of matriarchal societies.

BlogSara DahlenGlobal
Hannah Barnes and Time to Think
Hannah Barnes and Time to Think

Hannah Barnes is an award-winning BBC journalist, whose recent book Time to Think details what happened at the Gender Identity Development Service in London, a clinic beset by controversy. She joins FiLiA in discussion about her work. While Barnes does not approach the subject of gender identity medicine from a feminist perspective, her research and insights make worthwhile reading for women questioning the medicalisation of children.

BlogSara DahlenSex-Based Rights
Acid attacks against women in Mexico: the raison d'être of the Carmen Sanchez Foundation
Acid attacks against women in Mexico: the raison d'être of the Carmen Sanchez Foundation

The Carmen Sanchez Foundation foundation was created "as a response by Carmen Sánchez to the omissions and indolence of the Mexican authorities and the public health system in guaranteeing and enforcing the human rights of women who have survived an acid attack. But also as an act of love.” In Mexico this serious assault has also been associated with violence against women and girls, with disproportionately higher numbers of male perpetrators (87% of attackers)* assaulting women (94% of victims)*

BlogSara DahlenViolence Against Women, Global, Disability
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

As tensions grow across the world, and as the terrible war in Ukraine continues into its second year, we face a dangerous and uncertain future. Women are often at the front line of suffering in modern war. Here we reprint an extract from Lindsey German's book How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women (Pluto) where she takes up some of these issues. Published in 2012, it remains highly relevant today.

BlogSara DahlenPeace
A Women’s Strike Wave
A Women’s Strike Wave

Lindsey German writes about the socialist origins of International Women's Day and its links to current trade unionism. She discusses the many reasons for women to join unions and argues that one result of this present strike wave will be more union membership across the board.

BlogSara DahlenClass Politics