This extraordinary election has seen one horrible irony for women traded for another. At the start of the campaign, when Theresa May looked to turn her high personal ratings (lol) into an even higher Conservative majority (lololol), it seemed that the UK’s second female prime minister was going (...)
The neglect of women’s rights in Northern Ireland is a scar on the United Kingdom’s conscience.
In April, a young woman from Belfast was prosecuted under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 because, at the age of 19, she was unable to raise the funds she needed to travel to England for a (...)
Specialist black and minority ethnic domestic violence services are already under strain. Without ringfenced funding, they will be forced to close.
Women have, without any shadow of a doubt, been among the hardest hit casualties of austerity. So no one will be shocked that they will be hit (...)
“We are likely witnessing the birth of a new feminist movement on an international level. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we have a feminist movement everywhere. The International Women’s Strike was joined by fifty countries, but participation in the strike was uneven among the various (...)
Critics say amendment sends wrong message in country where it is estimated domestic abuse kills a woman every 40 minutes
Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial amendment that decriminalises some forms of domestic violence .
The amendment, which sailed through both houses of (...)
Ahead of a crucial report, we report on the battle faced by Britain’s most excluded demographic.
As gender politics go, it was unquestionably a modest step, but in Bradford’s Carlisle business centre the development felt seismic.
For five years Haniya had been striving to secure a job in (...)
On Sunday 28 August, Isra Zariat, writing for the the Norwegian broadcasting website NRK , revealed that Norwegian doctors are conducting ‘virginity tests’ on behalf of concerned Muslim parents. Doctor Therese Kristina Utgård revealed that her website Klara Klok answers questions about the hymen (...)
The new report on joblessness shows the role played by discrimination – but attitudes within our community must change too.
Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged group in Britain. They are three times more likely than other women to be unemployed or looking for work, and twice as (...)
Female politicians, campaigners and journalists demand change as shocking tales of harassment emerge.
Isabelle Attard, a French MP from Normandy, stood outside the French parliament flanked by dozens of protesting female politicians and feminist campaigners. Armed with placards and (...)
Labour’s Sadiq Khan decisively defeated Zac Goldsmith after the most disgustingly Islamaphobic campaign by the Tories. Khan won 57% against Goldsmith’s 43% to end eight years of Tory rule at City Hall. Voters in London showed their contempt for the Tory dog whistle politics that Cameron himself (...)
BERLIN — Caught up in a melee of drunken revelers outside the Cologne train station on New Year’s Eve, Caitlin Duncan, a neuroscience student from Seattle, was terrified. She had somehow gotten separated from her German boyfriend, who had both their cellphones and her wallet. Ms. Duncan, 27, said (...)
During the night of the 31 December / 1 January the city of Cologne was the scene of massive attacks on women. These attacks represent a new quality. Similar but less massive assaults took place in Hamburg and Stuttgart.
According to the police up to thousand men were assaulting women on the (...)
Dozens of women were sexually harassed on New Year’s Eve in Germany. But rather than connecting the events to everyday sexist violence in Germany, the political and media establishments have focused on the nationalities of the alleged perpetrators argue Silke Stöckle and Marion Wegscheider.
The (...)
Keeping an “arm’s length” from strangers is just one of the suggestions made by Cologne’s mayor to avoid sexual assault, after dozens of women were targeted in the city on New Year’s Eve. Following a crisis meeting after an unprecedented number of women were groped, harassed and assaulted during (...)
When Anna Zhavnerovich wrote about a beating she received from her boyfriend, it triggered a huge reaction. Now there are signs of a political shift in attitudes regarding the campaign to identify domestic violence as a crime.
Anna Zhavnerovich went to the police a week after she says her (...)
One of 40 signatories to an open letter details shocking levels of relentless, and sometimes violent, harassment.
There was the government minister who demanded to have a “pretty woman” opposite him during lunch. And another who would stop an interview to look at a young girl walking by and make (...)
Ada Colau and the other women involved in the citizen platform Barcelona en Comú are showing how municipal politics can be feminized from the bottom up.
Something special is happening in Barcelona. At the local elections in May, the citizen platform Barcelona en Comú (Barcelona in Common) could (...)
Andrew Ryder explains how the Hungarian ruling party’s anti-woman campaign is part and parcel of their larger agenda.
A PUBLIC service announcement (PSA) produced by the Hungarian government has provoked worldwide outrage by placing the blame for sexual assault on survivors. The video depicts (...)
In the past few years numerous authors have examined how the current economic crisis in Spain has differential impacts on women and men. While this is important to show, this article’s goal is to make the leap from a mere description of the gendered effects of the crisis, to an analysis of some (...)
The backlash sees sex education and contraception being restricted – and gay people compared to paedophiles.
Post-communist countries have experienced of late a kind of inverted sexual revolution. You’ve heard about the appalling new law against “homosexual propaganda” in Russia, or perhaps the (...)
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