🧵 As we head into #NewYear2026, we were happy to hear the news that another venue which relies on the exploitation of Women is shutting, with #HootersLiverpool announcing its closing this month. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

A #NewYearsDay treat from #FiLiA2025: Centring Women: Our Global Histories and Activism. 📺 youtu.be/4MLLj-Icqx8 Restoring Women to Cultural Memory – an inspirational session with @maxdashu.bsky.social 🔗 suppressedhistories.net #WomensHistory #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2026

More from #FiLiA2025, ‘Pornography Exposed: How a Normalised Industry Destroys Lives’. 📺 youtu.be/qvw5_kOMCUc With Gail Dines @culturereframed.bsky.social via Zoom, Vaishnavi Sundar, Valerie Tender and two French activists – and chaired by Luba Fein. #PornHarms #ListenToSurvivors #EndOfYear

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

Another gift for your #ChristmasDay 🎄🎁 From #FiLiA2025 – State Punishment, State Sanctions and the Fight for Women's Rights ♀️ 📺 youtu.be/OTy4Uz3VWdE With @jophoenix1.bsky.social, @atenadaemi.bsky.social (interpreter Tooba Zakipoor), Maggy Moyo & @qmarziababakarkh.bsky.social #WomensRights

‘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

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

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

🧵 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...

#NoClause104 it will criminalise victim-survivors. @filiahaguemums.bsky.social & others sent this co-signed letter to peers for support. @globalarrk.bsky.social @right2equality.bsky.social @womensaid.bsky.social @commissionerda.bsky.social @verabaird.bsky.social hague-mothers.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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

Tonight, UK peers debate Clause 104 of the Crime & Policing Bill. Together with #VAWG sector colleagues, @filiahaguemums.bsky.social are calling for 104 to be removed in its entirety. 🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk/2025/12/08/n... #NoClause104 #16Days #16DaysofActivism

Don't forget, this is ONLINE via Zoom tomorrow evening – for Women in #Wales 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-WalesZoom #FiLiAWomensAssembly #Online

Thank you @tracygilbertmp.bsky.social for petitioning Parliament to combat violence against women by: ➡️ requiring p*rnography websites to verify the age & ongoing consent of everyone on their platform ➡️ extending offline safeguards to online platforms 👏👏👏

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

🧵 Last month, FiLiA welcomed our new Director of Research, Dr Laura Favaro, who will bring together FiLiA’s diverse strands of research to establish a dedicated space for the production of high-quality, feminist-driven research: the FiLiA Research Hub. #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

Really looking forward to this. Spaces limited so book early! #UnionsForWomen #AnnieMills

Starved, Protested, Arrested: Unearthing Annie Mills at the Marx Memorial Library. Join us for a tour of the library & an archive workshop on this little-known activist of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement. 🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm 📍 Marx Memorial Library, London 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML

#MVAWG accounts for at least 15.8% of all recorded crime, has been declared a national threat and the Gov't has committed to halving this within 10 years. In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

And next week, our other #Wales event. We know it's not easy for all Women to travel to #Cardiff and we want to hear from women across #Wales to find out how the #FiLiAWomensAssembly can support you. 🗓️ Wednesday 10th December 7pm 🌐 ONLINE 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-WalesZoom #16DaysOfActivism #16Days

Don't forget, tomorrow is our next event in #Wales - a Women-only meeting in #Cardiff & share your views on what Women need from the #FiLiAWomensAssembly in Wales. 🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

🧵 Since we first met & interviewed nine lesbians in the #Kakuma refugee camp, we have walked alongside them & their sisters through moments of hope & far too many hardships. Read more of their stories on our campaign page ➡️ filia.org.uk/kakuma-campaign #16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomanLeftBehind

We welcome @jessasatomp.bsky.social's appointment to this role and look forward to working with her to improve the #VAWG response within health and social care. #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

Feminist Resistance to the Porn Industry – Gemma Aitchison, Rakel Nævdal, with chair @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social on how feminists are resisting exploitation, exposing truths & demanding change (w/Gail Dines @culturereframed.bsky.social via video). 📺 youtu.be/4FS5IANO26k #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

🧵 Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPD2025 #IDPD www.un.org/en/observanc...

Surrogacy must be part of #16Days – to shine a light on how #surrogacy is inherently exploitative, how it exposes Women & children to #humanrights violations, how it is characterised by violence against Women & children. Ban it now. ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #16DaysOfActivism

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

In September, the FiLiA Young Women's group had a stall at #SussexUni Freshers Fair & asked ‘What are the biggest problems young Women face in 2025?’ Read what the students had to say at our new blog ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #16Days #16DaysOfActivism #AndrewTate #MVAWG #Spiking #OnlyFans

Thank you, Lady Falkner, for your leadership and interventions in balancing the rights of everyone, in your role as Chair of the #EHRC We are especially grateful for your defence of women's human rights, especially in the face of toxicity & hostility. 🔗 www.equalityhumanrights.com/kishwer-baro...

A fantastic and insightful panel discussion. We took so much away from this as Chair. Caste may manifest in different ways but the underlying root causes of caste structures are identical.

For #16Days read about our #WomenFirst team, Women with lived & living experience. Via their Audit Tool, they aim to help local authorities build on any existing good practice & address gaps, to improve outcomes for Women exploited in the sex trade. 🔗 filia.org.uk/women-first #16DaysOfActivism

We also have an ONLINE event for Women in #Wales – especially for those who are unable to or struggle to travel to #Cardiff – we are hosting a FREE Women-only session via Zoom. 🗓️ Wednesday 10th December 7pm 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-WalesZoom #16Days #16DaysOfActivism #HumanRightsDay

And in the next two weeks, our next events in #Wales - firstly come along to this Women-only meeting in #Cardiff & share your views on what Women need from the #FiLiAWomensAssembly in Wales. 🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am 🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

Don't forget tonight is our next FiLiA Women's Assembly event in #Bolton - still a few tickets left for this, it's FREE and for Women-only 🔥 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAFireBolton #Manchester #GreaterManchester #16Days

For #16days, from #FiLiA2025, the session Caste is a Feminist Issue. 📺 youtu.be/j52q3aLQg_M Vandana Aparanti, Terezia Rostas & Harumi Gellineau explored caste & stressed the urgency of cross-caste & Feminist #solidarity, with chair Sukhvinder Kaur @sikhwomensaiduk.bsky.social #16DaysOfActivism

As part of the #16days, we’re proud to highlight @filiahaguemums.bsky.social, a volunteer-led campaign working with frontline experts & victim-survivors to end injustices for mothers & children fleeing DA, created by #HagueAbductionConvention 🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk #16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW

The two-child benefit cap will be scrapped in full from April 2026, described by the @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social as ‘a landmark step towards tackling child poverty in the UK’ & which will ‘lift over half a million children out of poverty by the end of the decade’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👀Looks like this government is scrapping the two child limit! This is good news for the thousands of children who will be lifted out of poverty and for the economy. Previous NEF analysis found this would reduce the economic cost of child poverty by £3.2bn a year.

It’s so important that we know where we have come from, how we got here. None of us is starting from scratch. Grateful for the opportunity to have been involved in this effort to make connections 🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️

Standing on the shoulders of giants – our #FiLiA2025 session Remembering & Honouring Brighton’96 & its significance for the movement to end #MVAWG w/ @proflizkelly.bsky.social, @hilarymcc7.bsky.social & @purnasen.bsky.social, & Joan Scanlon remembering Jalna Hanmer. 📺 youtu.be/pBNetVkmUmQ #16days

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

We are really grateful to @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social for sponsoring our launch in Parliament of the FiLiA Women’s Assembly & report, Making Policy Work for Women. Thanks so much to Home Office minister @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social for coming & speaking to women about our work, the assembly & VAWG

The #FiLiA newsletter is out now, with an update on the next conference in #Blackpool, our event in Parliament, our new research project, a @filiahaguemums.bsky.social campaign and more! 🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/next-conference-in-blackpool-first-parliamentary-event-and-more #Sisterhood & #Solidarity

Fantastic launch of the FiLiA Womens Assembly in Parliament today & report, Making Policy Work for Women. Thanks to @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social for sponsoring us & all who came for the enthusiastic reception @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social Read the report: bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women