Today is #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty - thank you to Danielle Metz of #INFIW for this important message. Today we are also sharing our appeal in memory of Sunny Jacobs - the Sunny Scholarship for Formerly Incarcerated women, find out more: www.gofundme.com/f/sunny-scho...

Today is #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty. The #DeathPenalty doesn't make communities safer. It deepens cycles of violence. We remember the inspiring Sunny Jacobs who, after being released from prison, lived a life of inspiring and supporting others. www.gofundme.com/f/sunny-scho... #NoDeathPenalty

“Women are essentially stigmatised more because they are a mother…” Our latest #Podcast episode on women’s #incarceration & the impact on their children is out now, featuring @shonaminson.bsky.social 🎧 Listen now snd share lnk.to/women-beyond... #ChildrensRights #PrisonIsAFeministIssue

🎙️ Imprisoned in Kenya with her then 3-month-old daughter, Teresa Njoroge turned her story into a mission for justice. Season 2 of #WomenBeyondWallsPodcast starts here: lnk.to/women-beyond... #PodcastRecommendations #PrisonIsAFeministIssue

“Bad girls”? That label is a lie. Season 2 of the Women Beyond Walls #podcast launches 29 July. Subscribe now + catch up on Season 1: lnk.to/women-beyond... #WomenBeyondWalls w. @huemangroupmedia.bsky.social & music from Lady Unchained & Miri

🎙️ Only one week to go! Ahead of Season 2 of the Women Beyond Walls Podcast (29 July), we revisit Susan Kigula’s powerful story—from death row to law graduate and changemaker. 🎧 Listen now: www.womenbeyondwalls.org/susankigula #deathpenalty #podcastrecommendation #freeher

🎧 10 days to go! Season 2 of the Women Beyond Walls #podcast launches on 29 July, 2025. Subscribe now at your favourite podcast platform and catch up on any Season 1 episodes you missed: 👉 lnk.to/women-beyond... #WomenBeyondWalls #PodcastLaunch #Season2 #JusticeForAll

🎙️ Season 2 of Women Beyond Walls #podcast is nearly here! Reimagining #justice, one story at a time — hear from women worldwide who’ve lived through incarceration & those reshaping systems. 🎧❤️ subscribe now: lnk.to/women-beyond... #WomenBeyondWallsPod #AccessToJustice @huemangroupmedia.bsky.social

🚨 A global rise in women’s imprisonment is being driven by poverty, discriminatory laws & the criminalisation of survival. A new report by @penalreformint.bsky.social & @women-beyond-walls.bsky.social reveals a 57% increase since 2000. www.ibanet.org//Poverty-and...

Six women return to reclaim Holloway Prison in the powerful film #HOLLOWAY. Screening + panel on 21 July 2025, 8pm in London. Hosted with Clean Break. 🎟️: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/hollowa... #WomenBeyondWalls #HollowayFilm

📣 Our May 2025 newsletter is out now Read on the links between #debt + #gender + #criminalisation. 🔗: open.substack.com/pub/womenbey...

#15YearsOfBangkokRules - Admission is a moment of vulnerability. Women entering prison must get support: family contact, legal advice, clear info, and child care arrangements where needed. Dignity from the start. #GenderEquality #Incarceration

Our latest newsletter is out! open.substack.com/pub/womenbey... We dive deeper into how #poverty & status lead to the #criminalisation of women—especially around #SexWork —and take a look back at key moments from #CSW69. Plus: global news, resources, opportunities.

In @msmagazine.com, Women Beyond Walls' @sabrinamahtani.bsky.social explains why #poverty & outdated laws are fuelling women’s #incarceration. 📖 Read: msmagazine.com/2025/04/10/w... ➕📖 Our Report w. @penalreformint.bsky.social: experiences.cleverstory.io/womens-beyon... #15YearsOfBangkokRules

We’re still saying 'racial injustice'—because pretending race doesn’t matter doesn’t make inequality disappear. #Incarceration isn’t neutral. The system hits harder if you're poor, a woman, and especially if you're racialised. 📢 This is part of our #DirtyWords series. #RacialJustice #racism

On #WorldHealthDay we remember: health is more than medicine. It’s about #justice, dignity, and care. Too many women are punished when they need support. We’re calling for a legal system rooted in care, not punishment. womenbeyondwalls.org/povertytopunishment #MentalHealth #DecrimPoverty

When poverty is punished, #justice fails. Around the world, women are jailed for begging for survival. But there’s hope: courts and commissions are pushing back. It’s time to #DecriminalisePoverty. Read more: experiences.cleverstory.io/womens-beyon... #FromPovertyToPunishment

Our new report w. Penal Reform Int, 'From Poverty to Punishment', explores how poverty is not just a pathway into the criminal legal system for women—but also a barrier to accessing #justice once caught up in it. 📖Read the report here: lnkd.in/eizGSVcp #15YearsOfBangkokRules, #DecriminalisePoverty

Our new report, 'From Poverty to Punishment', exposes how legal systems across the world punish women for simply trying to survive. Criminalisation is no solution to poverty. 📖 Read the report here: experiences.cleverstory.io/womens-beyon... #15YearsOfBangkokRules #Incarceration #JusticeForAll

@sabrinamahtani.bsky.social, @women-beyond-walls.bsky.social, gives key findings on women imprisonment, including: 1️⃣ Lack of data. 2️⃣ Laws criminalize women for life-sustaining activities. 3️⃣ Harsh drug laws are increasing women’s imprisonment. Learn more: www.womenbeyondwalls.org/povertytopun...

“Justice is honouring our complexity.” - Jhody Polk at #CSW69 on why to engage with women impacted by so-called #justice systems we need a different approach. #FromPubishmentToPoverty

🚨 NEW REPORT: From Poverty to Punishment 🚨 Women are disproportionately imprisoned due to poverty, vulnerability & discriminatory laws. 📖 Read the report now, be part of the call to end the criminalisation of poverty. 🔗 www.womenbeyondwalls.org/povertytopunishment #15YearsOfBangkokRules

🎥 Follow @sdg16.plus for live updates, or tune in to the livestream: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c....

🚨 To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Bangkok Rules, “Promising Practices to Reduce the Harmful Impact of Imprisonment on Women” is happening now! This #CSW69 side event will focus on reducing the harmful impact of imprisonment on women globally.

"So many women are in prison for drugs. So [we should think about them] within our advocacy for decriminalisation.” - Gloria Lai, Regional Director, Asia, @idpc.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more and watch now: lnkd.in/e-6E7cad #15YearsofBangkokRules #DecriminalisePoverty @awidwomensrights.bsky.social

We’re excited to be launching our report with Penal Reform International - From Poverty to Punishment – on Monday! 📺 You can watch the event that will be broadcast on UN WebTV: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c... #CSW69 #15YearsOfBangkokRules #PovertyToPunishment

❓ #DYK: The number of incarcerated women is growing much faster than rates of incarcerated men. Launching at #CSW69, Penal Reform International & @women-beyond-walls.bsky.social's new report will explore how biased policies criminalize women due to poverty. Read the full @theguardian.com article 👇

📢 Today's #DirtyWords (words we will still be using even though certain governments don’t like them) are #Equality and #Inequality. To stop naming inequality would be to turn a blind eye to the forces that criminalise women in the first place. #languagematters #freeher #incarceration #CSW69

📢 Launching 17 March at #CSW69: A new report by Penal Reform International & Women Beyond Walls on how biased laws criminalise women for poverty & status. Read more in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #15YearsOfBangkokRules #DecriminalisePoverty #CSW69 #FromPovertyToPunishment

For #IWD2025, a powerful discussion exploring the over-criminalisation of women & girls. 🎥 Filmed at @awidwomensrights.bsky.social 2024, moderated by @sabrinamahtani.bsky.social, featuring: Coletta Youngers, Gloria Lai, Catia Kim, Yatie Jonet. 🔗 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU27...

"Women held in cells, brutalised, degraded, dehumanised and killed, will not be included in the narrative of International Women’s Day, because we are not the women they care about." - @debbiekilroy.bsky.social & Tabitha Lean in @womensagenda.bsky.social: womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-d... #IWD2025

🎉 Our #CSW69 Guide is out now! 🎉 🔗 womenbeyondwalls.substack.com/p/commission... For all who want to end the global over-criminalisation and mass-incarceration of women & girls (and all who might just want to learn more) – this is for you! #Beijing30 #BeijingPlus30 #15YearsOfBangkokRules

🦋 Women Beyond Walls is now on @bsky.app! 🦋 We’re here to share insights, events & stories about ending the over-criminalisation and mass #incarceration of women worldwide. We'd love to connect, you can subscribe to our monthly newsletter at: womenbeyondwalls.substack.com #WomenBeyondWalls #Justice