🚀 Today we’re proud to launch the Reproductive Rights Activist Collective! Building on the learnings and successes of last year’s Bootcamp, the Collective will nurture talented new activists for #abortionrights and #reprorights. Visit our new website: https://t.co/3bW8S7tQ0J
IYAFP is hosting a #CSW69 side event on resisting anti-rights movements through intergenerational collaboration. We’re seeking poets, storytellers & musicians to bring this conversation to life!
$100 per performer
🔗Application Link: https://t.co/oDTwzCziwZ
#SRHRJ#CSW69
Dodds is right that the Government should discuss its approach to taxation. It should tax the rich.
Instead, the Government has self-imposed restraints that have lead them to decimate assistance for the world's poorest - those experience famine, conflict, disaster and disease.
Our letter to the Prime Minister expressing deep concern regarding his decision to cut ODA. Cutting ODA to raise defence spending is a false economy. The aid budget is an important instrument for long-term stability and economic partnership. We hope the government will reconsider
APPG on Global SRHR Chair Sarah Champion has responded to the announcement of cuts to UK ODA.
Cuts to ODA are "pulling the rug from under some of the world’s most vulnerable people" and women and girls often suffer disproportionately from cuts to SRHR services.
Prison is no place for pregnant women. This news of a pregnant woman's rights being so clearly breached is shocking, but sadly not surprising. We stand with @we_level_up & others calling for an end to the detention of pregnant women. #NoBirthsBehindBars
https://t.co/UpP2HAfKsb
Cutting ODA from 0.5% to 0.3% by 2027 is deeply shortsighted and doesn’t make anyone safer.
The deep irony is that development money can prevent wars & is used to patch up the consequences of them, cutting this support is counterproductive and I urge the government to rethink.
🚨 “We are profoundly shocked and disappointed that the government has made the reckless decision to raid the already diminished ODA budget—reducing it to less than half of our legal obligation,” says co-CEO Hannah Bond
Full statement here:
https://t.co/jhq46cqybx
Are you passionate about combatting sexism & sexual harassment in schools? Come and work with us!
UK Feminista is recruiting a Programme Coordinator.
🗓️ Deadline for applications: 26 March
🖋️ More details & apply 👉 https://t.co/uUTne1605S
Spending 30% of your income 20 years ago on a house with a garden isn’t the same as spending 30% of your income to live in a box room in a HMO you share with 5 other people.
🚨 RRAC Bootcamp is back! 🚨
Ready to drive radical change in reproductive rights? Join our 18-week programme & tackle the reproductive justice issues that matter most in your community!
#ReproJustice#ActivistBootcamp#RadicalChange
So much drama about pensioners paying tax on State Pension because of massive triple lock increases. Younger people with higher state pension ages, no DB pensions, no SERPS/S2P, yet funding billions more SP each year are shaking their heads in disbelief.
https://t.co/JJICrd3s6e
Your regular reminder that *thousands* of accounts from women and their family and friends alongside them report activity like this to be harassment. These people know that - they just choose to ignore it because they believe they're right and women should deal with it. #backoff
In the UK...
Average full-time take-home salary: £27k
Average yearly rental costs: £15k
Average UK house price cost: £290k
Average student debt: £45k
Average yearly food and utility costs: £4k
Average yearly cost for nursery: £15k
Average cost of a baby in their first year: £1.5k
Hope that helps.
I spoke to @shanti_das yesterday (after I recovered) about why safe access zones are so essential around abortion clinics. It's not just 'silent prayer' - it's a set of coordinated activities designed to undermine women's decision-making and the provision of legal healthcare.
@rachaelfrclarke Argh sorry to hear this happened to you. You are such an articulate and vociferous defender of bodily autonomy and we appreciate you!!