Women's Platform for Action International (WoPAI)

International Non-Profit association for women’s organisations across the globe.
A unified voice for a global women's movement.

[Women's Platform for Action International (WoPAI) @WomensActionInt]

We are excited to be on X!

WoPAI is a new International Non-Profit association of women’s organisations & informal women’s rights groups globally. We are independent of religious & political affiliations.

Please see our website for how to join!
https://t.co/TNtzR338Sq

[Athena Forum @AthenaForumEU]

Happy to see @griptmedia covering our response to the EU’s push for “conversion practices” bans, a framework so broad it would criminalise exploratory therapy and conversations with distressed young people, and part of a broader ideological capture.
https://t.co/Hm4bwLFcZM

[ENoMW @ENoMW]

📢 ENoMW Statement on the European Parliament Vote on a Consent-Based Definition of Rape.

🔗Full statement on our website: https://t.co/x6Y29I2ius

#FeministPolicy #VAW #VAWG #EuropeanParliament

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

Fully support this statement and position by @ENoMW

[Women's Platform for Action International (WoPAI) @WomensActionInt]

Appalling smear against @UNSRVAW

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

1/3 I have published a statement that is almost verbatim based on the letter I have sent ANTRA Brazil (@AntraBrasil) on Friday the 8th of May 2026, in response to Antra's repeated attacks, and acts of defamation and misinformation 👇

https://t.co/LvfXMenSlE

The letter I had sent is in response to a letter I had received from ANTRA on the 2nd of March 2026, but more importantly a concerning document that ANTRA had shared with stakeholders in #Brazil ahead of my academic visit in March 2026 and of which I received a copy.

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

It was a pleasure to meet with women organizations and women human rights defenders I Manila in April 2026 where i was on an academic visit.

It was particularly rewarding to meet Sally Ujano (right) after she was recently released from prison. Sally had been unfairly charged and convicted under Duerte’s regime of crimes she did not commit and which served as an excuse to punish her for her effective work on behalf of women and children.

[Athena Forum @AthenaForumEU]

@RoisinMichaux Yes, we are! With Faika @el_nagashi, @annettepacey and European Network of Migrant Women @ENoMW.

[Initiative "Lasst Frauen Sprechen!" @initiative_lfs]

https://t.co/bE1dn74fAy
eine neue Podcastfolge bei @KiekeMaFilm zum Sammelband "Was Frauen wollen - Alles außer Wokeness" - viel Spaß beim Anhören!
Ankündigungstext: "Die wundersame Karriere einer Auslandskorrespondentin, Frauenleben während der Corona-Jahre, ein Brief an die Tochter, Frauen in der Kunst - vier Autorinnen des Sammelbands sprechen über ihre Texte, über die Motivation dazu und über Persönliches. Mit Juliane Beer, Birgit Gärtner, Astrid Manthey und Dr. Carola Muysers"

[Women's Platform for Action International (WoPAI) @WomensActionInt]

@Vaishax @lgbinternationl Excellent video, as always!

[Vaishnavi Sundar @Vaishax]

On #LesbianVisibilityDay, lesbians from around the world talk about what it is like being a lesbian.

TY for this opportunity, @lgbinternationl. It was a joy making this video.

Watch on YT - https://t.co/4gShVcgS6k

[APPG on Commercial Sexual Exploitation @APPG_CSE]

'Hundreds of Women Are Being Sold Online: Why Aren’t We Investigating the Websites?'

Our Vice Chair @tracygilbert72 MP 👏

https://t.co/SMHfq6U2HK @ToniaAntoniazzi @Jess4Lowestoft @Baronessjenkin

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

WE MUST STOP PROMOTING THE IDEA THAT MEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEXUAL ACCESS TO WOMEN & GIRLS

“The grooming starts very young now. I work with girls that call themselves ‘hot’ at six, seven, eight, nine or ten years of age, because they are totally groomed by society to be sexual and ‘porn ready’ or rather ‘abuse ready’ – because it’s not sex.

I have a particular passion for working class kids. I work on estates in the UK, particularly in my city, but I’ve worked nationally and internationally as well. Kids who come from families that don’t work, don’t have an education, and are very poor and in poor health.

In the biggest estate I work on, the average life expectancy for women is about 40 and they are usually already grandmas by that age. It’s all hidden – it’s a hidden society – although it’s becoming more and more apparent with social media.

These girls, because of their postcodes alone, are written off. They’re written off from a very young age, so you’re constantly having to promote them and give them support to build their self-esteem so that they can fight this notion that to be a ‘sex worker’ is great. That it’s a great career and it’s an option that’s viable, sexy and wonderful. […]

In fact, that was the single biggest request from men who bought me. I was 15 when I entered the sex trade, but they still wanted to make me younger. They still wanted to treat me like I was a little girl and would often ask for your pubes to be shaved. […]

We need to stop promoting this idea that men have the right of sexual access to women as and when they freaking want; women of whatever age they want, whatever size they want, whatever position they want.

We absolutely have to call this out! Especially while we objectify women and girls, and make them ready. In my city it’s £5 to do whatever they want to another human, to a vulnerable girl or woman. Five quid!

Those women are probably going to have to have 20 or 30 men a day, and like I said, I just can’t live my life and be part of and support that notion, not for one second, not for any girl – absolutely none…”

Link to the full article in the next tweet.

[SurrogacyConcern @SurrogConcern]

This case is utterly heartbreaking, but not only are NHS Scotland health boards treating young women badly, they’re not being honest with these couples: pregnancies with donor eggs are higher risk for complications.

@NHSScotland needs to stop these ads.
https://t.co/n3SmsODclP

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

Why the Nordic Model? A view from New Zealand by Ally-Marie Diamond

“…It wasn’t until much later that I started to research what the Nordic Model is, and what full decriminalisation is. There was so much anger amongst women that I was completely overwhelmed and felt pulled in a million different directions. I wanted to please people, so for a long time I just went along with whoever was giving me the most attention and praise.

But then I realised something. Prostitution is wrong. Prostitution is violence. All these years I had felt shame, fear, I felt I was unlovable, like I was damaged goods because of the life I’d lived. I’d always thought it was my body, my choice. But finally I realised the choices I’d made all those years ago were not my fault. I was worth more than being raped everyday. I was worth more than being sold and bought.

Then I wondered how many other women were finding themselves with no other choice but prostitution. How many women were so broken, emotionally, physically and spiritually, that they thought it was the only road? It was then I started to research the different models and to think about where I wanted my voice to be most amplified.

Learning that it was New Zealand that had led the way down the disastrous full decriminalisation route, I made a decision that I would speak up for the women and children in my country. I decided that this is where my heart is and this is where my voice belongs.

Impressing people and other women is no longer my focus. Now my focus is fighting for what is right.

I am angry. Angry that women think selling themselves and being bought is a human right. Angry that women and children are dying at the hands of men who think it’s OK to buy them for instant sexual gratification. Angry that women and children are being trafficked. Angry that slavery is so rife in New Zealand, especially amongst our indigenous women and children.

What I am most angry about though, is that people are so oblivious to what is happening in their own communities – and if they do know, that they sit back and don’t do anything.

The Nordic Model is far from perfect. But we only have two models in front of us.

One, full decriminalisation, protects the women in prostitution who “choose” to be there.

The other, the Nordic Model, protects the vulnerable women who feel they have no other choice, and are desperately searching for ways to leave. Women who look up to the sky every night and wonder, is this all there is to life, is this all there is for me? Like I used to. These women are the majority, and the majority are women of colour.

Should we not be protecting our most vulnerable, who are the majority of women in prostitution? Who are mostly indigenous women and women of colour?

The Nordic Model is based on four pillars:

1. Criminalising the buyers,
2. Decriminalising prostituted individuals,
3. Offering help and services for them to leave the sex industry,
4. Awareness and education of the general public.

The Nordic Model provides exit services for women to leave the trade if they choose to. The buyers, even though criminalised, are usually not imprisoned. Instead they are warned; fined; and sometimes educated by survivors of the sex trade – with the money they pay for this being put back into the services that are providing support systems for the women to exit.

Support services are already in place for survivors of domestic violence. Women exiting the sex trade require similar services: Trauma counselling, safe houses, education, personal development, basic life skills, housing.

We cannot ignore the devastation that is happening in New Zealand right now…”

Link to the full article in the next tweet.

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

We are at the World March of Prostitution & Sex Trade Survivors in #Paris #France 🇫🇷 @CAPIntl @SPACEintl @CATWIntl to mark the 10th anniversary of France's Abolitionist Law.

#abolishprostitution #abolitiondelaprostitution #marchemondialedessurvivantes #aboliciónprostitución

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

A small but fearless group of women from Afghanistan is protesting in the streets of Kabul on International Women’s Day, demanding their basic rights and calling for an end to a gender apartheid regime.

[Athena Forum @AthenaForumEU]

Happy International Women’s Day! There is so much courage across Europe with many who speak up for women's rights and against authoritarian dogma in whatever form it takes. We will continue to hold the European Union and Council of Europe accountable.

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

Pleased to be participating in the side event to #CSW70 entitled “Protecting #Women and #Children: Combating Violence and Exploitation in #Surrogacy” convened by @ItalyUN_NY, Turkiye, Paraguay, the Holy Sea, and possibly others.
It will take place on 10th of march 2026 in UNHQ CR8, 1:15-2:30 pm EST.
Join us if you are at the CSW.

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

3/3 I reiterate my call on the Committee to eliminate all references to “sex work” and “minor sex workers,” as these terms do not reflect internationally agreed on UN language nor are they recognized under international law. They also undermine established treaties such as CEDAW itself, the Palermo Protocol, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

I call again on the @CedawUn committee to continue to recognize the inherent violence and exploitation in prostitution, emphasizing the inextricable link between prostitution and other grave crimes such as trafficking in persons, torture, and inhumane and degrading treatment.

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

1/3 I join the authors of the letter led by @CATWIntl in expressing my alarm at the @CedawUn concluding observations on the #Netherlands, a summary of which was also published by the committee here:
https://t.co/laC815Rhlq

A copy of the letter by civil society to CEDAW can be found here: https://t.co/zKk4YbyZXw

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

Workshops, Panels, Activism, Performances, Art, Films, Stalls, Books, Merchandise, Women-only Party and Networking

#Blackpool September 18th-19th for #FiLiA2027

#EarlyBird tickets end at midnight 9th March!

#GlobalFeminism

https://t.co/nz8nsjrN85