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Feminist campaigns community working together for gender justice & bodily autonomy. JOIN US 📣
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Appalling: @ObserverUK finds 1 in 3 pregnant women in prison are being held pre-trial. The practice of remanding pregnant women should be abolished, especially given the NHS acknowledges all pregnancies in prison are high-risk. @hansummers @nic__murray
https://t.co/zH3MPgax50
theguardian.com
New data on prisons has added to calls by campaigners to end custodial sentences for expectant mothers
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I wrote this because loving a club doesn’t mean defending the indefensible. It means demanding better. Arsenal should do better and the fact that they won’t even try says everything. @AFC_SOASV
https://t.co/9m0ghICCkj
https://t.co/ToU9sTKohu
telegraph.co.uk
Our protest group sent thousands of letters to Emirates calling for action on player, who is charged with rape, but was met with silence
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Statement From Arsenal Supporters Against Sexual Violence.
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Rianna Cleary, who was 18 at the time, gave birth to her daughter Aisha alone in a Surrey prison cell after officers ignored her calls for help. Janey Starling from @we_level_up is calling for an end to the imprisonment of pregnant women. She tells Novara Media: “Pregnant women
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Solidarity with @Pal_action & all who resist state violence - at home and globally! We reject the government’s proposed proscription of campaigners & advocates disrupting weapons manufacturing in the UK as a terrorist group. Our latest blog explains why: https://t.co/7V1bNOUcXJ
welevelup.org
The Palestine Action ban and Crime & Policing Bill are interconnected feminist issues that will criminalise more women and restrict protest.
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New: Minister for Prisons Lord Timpson has commissioned an independent investigation into the use of restraints on pregnant women Proud of my work reporting exclusives on this for The Times. You can read my interview with one of the women here➡️ https://t.co/YdBkDuBCY9
thetimes.com
One of five women who went into labour while an inmate at HMP Bronzefield says she begged officers to remove her restraints in the hospital
Continuing our correspondence with Lord Timpson (@JamesTCobbler) about the treatment of pregnant women in the criminal justice system, he has written to us outlining policy changes, better oversight, and a push for more humane, health-informed practices across women’s prisons ⬇️
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The joint winners of @SMKcampaigners Campaign of the Year Award ❤️‍🔥 @RapeCrisisEandW @centreWJ @EVAWuk @rightsofwomen for our successful campaign to #KeepCounsellingConfidential
@we_level_up for the No Births Behind Bars campaign to end the imprisonment of pregnant women đź’«
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These debates aren't about public safety or "integration." They're about deciding whose bodies are deemed acceptable, whose culture is "tolerated, and whose freedoms are conditional on state approval. That is fascism.
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Once again, Muslim women are being weaponised in dehumanising debates designed to stir up hate and Islamophobia. Their bodily autonomy erased, safety endangered, and their identities reduced to talking points. Let's be clear: this is not about safety it's about control.
I tabled a motion in Parliament on banning the burqa and the niqab. How many other MPs signed it? Zero. None. Not one. My view? The burqa and the niqab are unsafe, un-British, and unwanted. Both should be banned.
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🔴⚪️ Reach Out Directly to the Club! ⚪️🔴 Join us in directly emailing Arsenal’s Head of Communications, Managing Director and Vice Chair. Together, we can show that sexual violence will not be ignored — not in football, not at Arsenal, not anywhere.🩵 https://t.co/MSXUoDyHnB
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We know the facts. Months have been spent raising awareness, protesting, and campaigning, yet we've received no response. Stay tuned for our next campaign to strengthen our calls for accountability, transparency, and a commitment to safeguarding. 📣🩵
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Our womanhood has always been policed or outrightly erased because it does not meet the white supremacist ideal of femininity. THERE IS NO FEMINISM WITHOUT TRANS WOMEN.
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The dehumanisation of trans people in this country closely resembles the historic and ongoing dehumanisation of Black and Global Majority and disabled women.
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Our freedom to live free from violence and coercion - and to have the material resources and conditions to do so - is a battle between the public and the state, not between cisgender women and trans women.
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Transphobia is not feminist. It’s FASCIST! The Supreme Court decision is not a win for women, it is a violent setback in feminist history. Bodily autonomy is key to feminist liberation. From abortion to transition, feminist and trans liberation are two sides of the same coin.
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Solidarity needed! Our friends at @AbortionSupport Network need our help to keep their helpline running. They provide life-changing healthcare to those who need it most. Please donate to their urgent fundraiser to keep their helpline running:
abortionsupport.donorsupport.co
We need your help to save our helpline. We need to raise £50,000 by the end of April to cover the increasing costs of helping people travel for an abortion. Over 2024 and into this year, calls – and...
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Pregnant women and mothers continue to face higher-risk sentencing outcomes compared to if the Imposition guideline was in place as intended. Women in our criminal justice system cannot afford to wait any longer!
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But the Justice Secretary prioritised political point-scoring over keeping pregnant women and mothers safe, and the new sentencing guideline has been delayed indefinitely. The impact on women is, as Francesca says, devastating.
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The Sentencing Council’s new guideline explicitly directed courts to avoid imprisoning pregnant women & mothers due to the risks- a huge breakthrough in courts having to consider the harm prison causes to women & their babies & prioritise community-based alternatives to prison.
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In a letter to @guardian, criminal defence solicitor Francesca Cociani, highlights the impact delays to the new sentencing guideline, which we fought hard for, will have on women and their babies. Read the article:Â https://t.co/n0yCIJoGFa
theguardian.com
Letters: In response to the suspension of new sentencing rules, Cordella Bart-Stewart highlights the racial disparities that continue to dog the criminal justice system. Plus Francesca Cociani on the...
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