Imigongo, Rwandan art form traditionally made by women, with red, black and white geometric designs painted on walls, pottery, tiles and canvas #WomensArt .

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1616 #WomensArt

UN rapporteur relays harrowing accounts from displacement camps in #Sudan www.turkiyetoday.com/region/un-ra...

#NewYear means new FiLiA Women's Assembly events – towards the end of January, our online Women-only group for Women across #Wales – ‘Make Them Listen!’ 🗓️ Thursday 29th January 🕖 7-8.30PM 🌐 Online via Zoom 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-ZoomWales #FWAZoomWales

Indigenous Australian artist Judy Watson Napangardi, Snake Vine (Ngalyipi) Dreaming, 2001 #WomensArt

East Window, 2008 by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), a highly prolific Italian painter, and respected teacher who founded the first art academy for women outside of a convent. Another pioneering female artist not celebrated enough in Euopean art history #WomensArt

From #FiLiA2025 ~ From Arrival to Survival: The Class Question in Migration with @rahilag.bsky.social, Salome Mbugua, Hannana Siddiqui & Faty Kane. ‘For me this is the biggest Women's rights violation, hiding in plain sight.’ ~ Faty Kane 📺 youtu.be/K4F1yWxxZ7E #MigrantWomen #MigrantWomenStories

Women's work in embroidery globally can act as a powerful form of preserving culture, heritage and identity. Examples include Hausa (Northern Nigeria) left, Palestinian tatreez (top right), Kantha (Bangladesh, West Bengal) and Ukrainian Vyshyvanka #Womensart

Looking to scale personal safety training while building internal capability? Our Personal Safety Train-the-Trainer course is a sustainable solution delivered over 2 days. Dates in February & April www.suzylamplugh.org/train-the-tr...

“Banaz’s murder will never leave my life.” 20 years on from Banaz Mahmod’s killing, the fight for justice continues. Bekhal Mahmod and SBS speak to @theguardian.com about our campaign for Banaz’s Law to recognise ‘honour’-based abuse as an aggravating factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Angel Lynn, a once bubbly 18-year-old college student with dreams of being a forensic scientist, was brain damaged after being pushed from a moving van when she was kidnapped by her controlling boyfriend. This is her story. #CoerciveControl shadowsofcontrol.com/storie...

Some #endofyear treats for you – with some more recordings from #FiLiA2025 🔥🎉 First up: ‘Why Does Women's History Keep Being Erased?’ 📺 youtu.be/_DqB6oYEirg With Onjali Rauf, @rachelhewitt.bsky.social, Susanna Rustin and @glosswitch.bsky.social #HappyNewYear2026 #HappyNewYear #WomensHistory

Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson's art tells the untold stories of her homeland in her mixed media artworks #WomensArt

Looking-Glass, by Louise Jopling, 1875, fashionable English painter of the Victorian era, who had a studio in Chelsea and was friends with Oscar Wilde and actress Ellen Terry #WomensArt

‘If women in prostitution are not explicitly prioritised, they are sidelined, misunderstood, or erased altogether.' Read more on the Govt's new #VAWG strategy in our blog by FiLiA Global #MVAWG lead, Sally Jackson. 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #misogyny #MaleViolence

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

'Glasgow Girls' Margaret & Frances Macdonald, 'The Christmas Story', title page of an Illuminated manuscript of the same title, 1895 #WomensArt

A #ChristmasDay present for you all!🎄🎁 From #FiLiA2025: LESBIANS COUNT! Our Voices, Our Views, Our Lives ♀️♀️ 📺 youtu.be/jHaQsVPl6Gg Ava Van Aurich, Jenny Willmott @scotlesbians.bsky.social and Sue Regan – three connected talks with Australia, UK-wide & int'l perspectives #lesbians

By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks. He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

In our latest blog by Sally Jackson, we welcome the Govt's new #VAWG strategy and share some comments on its opportunities and challenges. 🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/2025/12/22/filias-thoughts-on-the-new-vawg-strategy #MVAWG #misogyny #MaleViolence

Turner syndrome is on the rise globally, with big gaps in care between countries. A new study in AOGS highlights the need for improved strategies and resource allocation to deal with the growing burden. Read the full article here -> https://ow.ly/WBZz50XLrNk #TurnerSyndrome

For all the hard working, over burdened ♀ out there at Xmas.... By UK cartoonist Jacky Fleming 🩷

🧵 We welcome the long-awaited #VAWG strategy, published today. It includes some promising initiatives, many of which were signalled ahead of today’s launch, and it is positive to see renewed focus on this national emergency. www.gov.uk/government/p...

‘So we were drawing on the energy of women’s liberation but also the energy of the trade unionists who had started the modern campaign for equal pay with the Ford Dagenham strike...’ 50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act by Susanna Rustin. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition by Indigenous #Australian painter Barbara Merritt #WomensArt #December14th #Peace🕯

The man who neutralized a terrorist in Sydney by taking his weapon was a 43-year-old Ahmed Al Ahmed, the owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland. During the confrontation with the terrorists, Ahmed was shot twice in the arm, but he continued to fight

Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

'Our land' by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt ##ArtAdvent

A shout out to all of the people who find this time or year difficult for lots if reasons.... Big hugs to you ❤️

On #HumanRightsDay, we present the film ‘For Gisèle’ from #FiLiA2025, a dance created in honour of Gisèle Pelicot that aims to give back a little of what Gisèle Pelicot gave us by standing up and speaking out ❤️‍🔥 📺 youtu.be/64upA9FvgEE #ShameMustChangeSides #16Days #16DaysofActivism #GisèlePelicot

One in three Women will be subjected to sexual violence at least once during her lifetime. A third of us are Sarah. #FiLiA2025 We are all Sarah 💙💚 📺 youtu.be/tlYW9nE6Ggo With thanks to Sarah, Sisters Heal and @sisterssalon.bsky.social #16Days #16DaysOfActivism #MVAWG #MeToo

Important @ukhouseoflords.bsky.social debate last week on Govt's #VAWG strategy: #FGM, honour-based abuse, online #misogyny, CSE & role of the new Victims’ Commissioner. 📺 youtu.be/evl7kUzji1Y Peers’ asked Lord Hanson ‘when’ the strategy will be published, he repeatedly answered ‘very soon’...⏰

#FiLiA2025: The State as Perpetrator of Violence Against Women, with chair Brownyn Winter & @maryamaldossari.bsky.social, Clarice Saadi, Ninotchka Rosca, @atenadaemi.bsky.social, with interpreter Tooba Zakipoor, & Froha Poya; @unsrvaw.bsky.social sent a statement. 📺 youtu.be/o7CLnIVfbHI #16Days

Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt

Thank you for following, you're all very much appreciated! ❤️ Happy Friday 🎄!! ❄️

At the #FiLiA2025 closing, our sisters from #Kakuma joined us via a live Zoom and as always, there is so much to learn from them – their resilience and their compassion and above all, their unwavering #Sisterhood and #Solidarity 📺 youtu.be/_NZ4hW4T8qYi #16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomenLeftBehind

A UK female spitfire pilot, 1944, known as a ferry pilot, delivering newly manufactured aircrafts from the factory to airfields #WomensArt

Read FiLiA's Male Violence against Women & Girls Global Lead, Sally Jackson's blog on why feminists mark the UN day for the elimination of #VAWG & why our activism can never be limited to #16days ✊ 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW #IDEVAW2025 #NoExcuse

#VAWG is a trade union issue... ‘the trade union movement itself – still need to take the crisis of violence against women more seriously’. @kiritunks.bsky.social of the FiLiA TU Women’s Network writes for @mstaronline.bsky.social for #IDEVAW & the #16Days morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol...

Today, we share the #Femicide session from #FiLiA2025 to mark the UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women & to honour the Women’s lives stolen by male violence @femicidecensus.bsky.social 📺 youtu.be/yHIyubZlqes #IDEVAW #16Days #16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW2025 #NoExcuse

#OnThisDay, 25 Nov 1960, sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were assassinated for their political opposition to the Dominican dictator Trujillo. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #16Days 🗃️ 1/2

Femicide: the killing of a woman or girl, by a man and on account of her sex The facts: >In 2022 men used the brute force of their own bodies in 17% of killings by kicking, hitting and stamping a woman to death. Take action to end femicide #ActivismWorks brightonsisters.wordpress.com/femicide/

Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor was told by her record label to look more feminine, which she not only ignored but rebelled against. She later wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus warning of the misogynistic manipulation of women by the music industry #Womensart

Two more events coming up for #Wales #FiLiAWomensAssembly in Wales: come along to this event to hear more and to share your views on what women need from the Assembly in #Cardiff and Wales. 🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am 📍 Central Cardiff 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales #FWAWales

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), French portrait painter. Her subjects included Marie Antoinette and she enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities #WomensArt

Georgia O'Keeffe. Evening Star, No. III. 1917 #WomensArt

'The night the sky showered us with stars" by Sarah Morgan, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

We are horrified by reports of yet another racially motivated rape. We stand in solidarity with the woman attacked in Walsall. Black and minoritised women are disproportionately targeted with male violence and systematically failed when they report this abuse. We demand justice!