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Five grassroots feminist initiatives in five different countries transcend mainstream narratives about women’s rights
Feminist groups in Europe and Eurasia are continuing to resist the far-right rollback of women’s rights. But the international media usually focuses on mass demonstrations for (...)
Equality Now is calling on Eurasian countries to amend sexual violence laws towards consent-based definitions
Sexual violence laws in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are outdated and still require survivors of rape and sexual assault to ‘prove’ that physical force was used to (...)
We’ve come a long way!
The fight for reproductive freedom in Ireland
Irish publisher Lilliput Press recently launched the photobook, Road to Repeal: 50 years of struggle in Ireland for contraception and abortion, in Dublin’s Mansion House. Social policy analyst Pauline Conroy, photographer (...)
OPINION: The EU should insist that Poland uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care
It’s two years since hundreds of thousands of people – mostly women – joined protests in Poland against a near-total ban on legal abortion. Police used violence to disperse rallies and detained (...)
A Russian anti-war activist and refugee in Poland reacts to feminist leader Marta Lempart, who has begun calling for Russian refugees to “get the fuck out” of Western Europe.
Dear Ms Marta.
While speaking at Monday’s rally in front of the Russian Embassy, you addressed Russians/Russian women (...)
In a Twitter space hosted by BIRN’s Reporting Democracy, experts warned civil society needs to organize against conservative-religious forces that are pushing through abortion restrictions with little public support.
Women’s rights activists condemned the moves by governments in Central Europe (...)
The activists taking inspiration — and money — from US anti-abortion groups
When news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned decades of precedent and opened the door to abortion bans across the country, the reaction from opponents of the procedure in Europe was simple: We can do it (...)
Ukraine has very liberal abortion laws. In Poland, it is almost entirely illegal. Millions of Ukrainians discovered this when they fled the war in their home country and crossed the Polish border.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Imagine stepping across a border and discovering that reproductive rights you (...)
Women turn to aid groups for help, with many unaware their rights to reproductive healthcare have vanished upon crossing the border
When the first Russian bombs fell on Ukraine, Myroslava Marchenko was a gynaecologist at a private clinic in Kyiv. The next day, one of her patients was due to (...)
Inclusivity and efficiency are often taken to be in contradiction in our current times. That’s why professionalization seems like a good way out for many groups who want to have a societal impact. After all if you have experts deciding about your outreach policies, design material, and find (...)
On October 3, 2016, I was about to teach my regular Monday morning class at the University of Warsaw, a day in the life of a college professor. This Monday would be different, though.
When I entered the university campus, I was astonished to see my female colleagues and female students all (...)
Girls, mothers, grandmothers of the world, let us unite for a globe without wars. Let us stand up for our men, friends, lovers, husbands, sons, grandsons, that they will stay at home with us, so that they will not be laying in foreign countries in anonymous graves, that they will not be (...)
Family of Agnieszka T say they want to ‘save other women in Poland from a similar fate’, as case met with anger over restrictive termination laws
Protests are under way across Poland after the death of a 37-year-old woman this week who was refused an abortion, a year since the country (...)
As new laws hit the most vulnerable pregnant women in need of care, volunteers struggle to help those unable to access safe abortions
One year ago, on the night Poland introduced one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe, the phone started ringing at the country’s most high-profile (...)
What has happened in Greece over the last two years is worthy of attention: never before in the history of the country has the issue of women’s rights had so much attention in the press, been the subject of such passionate public debate and occupied the forefront of the political scene.
It all (...)
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in more than 70 Polish towns and cities on 6-8 November 2021, demanding, as they did last year, the right of women to choose, after the death of a pregnant woman in Pszczyna hospital while doctors waited for “the heart of the embryo to stop beating”. (...)
Protesters link woman’s death by septic shock to new restrictions on ending unviable pregnancies
“Her heart was beating too,” thousands of protesters across Poland chanted on Saturday during demonstrations sparked by the death of a pregnant 30-year-old woman in hospital. Her family say that the (...)
Tens of thousands have travelled to other European countries for legal terminations since near-total ban, campaigners say
At least 34,000 women in Poland are known to have sought abortions illegally or abroad since the country introduced a near total ban on terminations.
According to (...)
Abortion access has never been equal in Europe. The right to terminate an unwanted or unviable pregnancy varies from Malta, where the procedure is illegal in all circumstances, to the Netherlands, which has some of the most liberal laws on the continent. Protesters took (...)
In the Czech Republic, the legal definition of rape requires the threat of violence. Campaigners say it is failing victims
“I felt so lost when I heard the court verdict; as if the fact that he raped me was somehow not enough,” said Jana Novak.
Novak, from Prague, pressed charges against her (...)
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