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Naomi Cunningham, Barrister, Outer Temple Chambers said:
‘Plaid Cymru’s tight-lipped and grudging concession implies that it thinks “the law as it stands” is unsatisfactory, and it is hoping for a change of law that will enable it to discriminate on grounds of “gender-critical” belief in future. Activists are free to work towards that change if they choose, but meanwhile political parties along with public authorities, service-providers and employers must all comply with the law as it is.’
On 29th January 2024 Lisa-Marie Taylor, CEO of FiLiA, attended an event organised by the local council and billed as one of a series, with the aim of ‘hearing your ideas’ to ‘create the positive change you would like to see’ in Brighton & Hove. What she witnessed during the course of the two-hour workshop left her shocked; silencing, intimidation and a lack of willingness to engage on what is one of the key topics within the VAWG sector currently.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FiLiA along with 17 groups with concerns about the SNP’s controversial gender reforms has written to Scottish Labour and the Scottish Tories to ask them how they propose to address the issues. The groups include Women’s rights and LGB campaigners, clinicians and parents of children with gender dysphoria.
This piece highlights the institutional violence and contempt with which Mexican authorities treat women and feminist activists all over the country, while femicides, rapes, and trafficking are on the rise. With this piece, we are building solidarity across borders with other feminists to send the message that they are not alone and that the world is watching how Mexican women are being punished for standing up against male violence.
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our bookshop, which has been created out of a joint Twitter action with Woman’s Place UK.
The Hague Mothers FiLiA Legacy Project aims to amplify the voices of the women who are victims of The Hague Convention, to raise awareness of the issues, and to work with lawyers, domestic violence experts, children’s organisations, women’s groups, and Hague victims to put right the injustices perpetuated by this legislation.
