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On 25 November, a massive wave of more than half a million people filled the streets of Rome, with many spontaneous gatherings in squares throughout the country - first and foremost in Messina, Sicily, to shout out all their anger and determination against patriarchal violence, against those (...)
Between 16 and 18 November, Warsaw was the capital of world social and Marxist feminism: hundreds of women from all around the world gathered to discuss political theory and praxis, exchange experiences, research results and free thoughts. Women of the North and the South, East and West, all (...)
As the cheerful noise of little children slowly fills the Jatekvar Bolcsode nursery in Budapest’s city centre, Istvan Zsupan, a 35-year-old entrepreneur, drops off Anna, the youngest of his three children.
Zsupan’s family is one of many who benefit from an array of government support (...)
“By going after women and girls who need medical care—and doctors who provide it—Polish authorities are using their powers to terrorize people instead of to protect basic rights,” said a Human Rights Watch researcher.
As a leading human rights organization declared Thursday that the Polish (...)
Dave Kellaway provides an in-depth analysis of the controversy surrounding Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales and his inappropriate behaviour towards women’s national team player Jenni Hermoso, examining the machismo culture underlying Rubiales’ actions and the strong backlash (...)
Last week saw protests in 40 towns across Bulgaria, after courts failed to convict a man who attacked his 18-year-old former partner with a knife. The case pointed to authorities’ failure to confront domestic violence — and the wider misogyny of public life.
Last Monday, thousands of people (...)
The Polish activist became the first person in Europe to be convicted for helping another woman get an abortion—and galvanized a movement behind her.
WARSAW—On March 14, Justyna Wydrzyńska arrived for her final day of court dressed in a magenta pantsuit, an orange blouse, and a gold (...)
Five grassroots feminist initiatives in five different countries transcend mainstream narratives about women’s rights
Feminist groups in Europe and Eurasia are continuing to resist the far-right rollback of women’s rights. But the international media usually focuses on mass demonstrations (...)
Equality Now is calling on Eurasian countries to amend sexual violence laws towards consent-based definitions
Sexual violence laws in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are outdated and still require survivors of rape and sexual assault to ‘prove’ that physical force was used to (...)
We’ve come a long way!
The fight for reproductive freedom in Ireland
Irish publisher Lilliput Press recently launched the photobook, Road to Repeal: 50 years of struggle in Ireland for contraception and abortion, in Dublin’s Mansion House. Social policy analyst Pauline Conroy, (...)
OPINION: The EU should insist that Poland uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care
It’s two years since hundreds of thousands of people – mostly women – joined protests in Poland against a near-total ban on legal abortion. Police used violence to disperse rallies and detained (...)
A Russian anti-war activist and refugee in Poland reacts to feminist leader Marta Lempart, who has begun calling for Russian refugees to “get the fuck out” of Western Europe.
Dear Ms Marta.
While speaking at Monday’s rally in front of the Russian Embassy, you addressed Russians/Russian (...)
In a Twitter space hosted by BIRN’s Reporting Democracy, experts warned civil society needs to organize against conservative-religious forces that are pushing through abortion restrictions with little public support.
Women’s rights activists condemned the moves by governments in Central (...)
The activists taking inspiration — and money — from US anti-abortion groups
When news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned decades of precedent and opened the door to abortion bans across the country, the reaction from opponents of the procedure in Europe was simple: We can do (...)
Ukraine has very liberal abortion laws. In Poland, it is almost entirely illegal. Millions of Ukrainians discovered this when they fled the war in their home country and crossed the Polish border.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Imagine stepping across a border and discovering that reproductive rights (...)
Women turn to aid groups for help, with many unaware their rights to reproductive healthcare have vanished upon crossing the border
When the first Russian bombs fell on Ukraine, Myroslava Marchenko was a gynaecologist at a private clinic in Kyiv. The next day, one of her patients was due to (...)
Inclusivity and efficiency are often taken to be in contradiction in our current times. That’s why professionalization seems like a good way out for many groups who want to have a societal impact. After all if you have experts deciding about your outreach policies, design material, and find (...)
On October 3, 2016, I was about to teach my regular Monday morning class at the University of Warsaw, a day in the life of a college professor. This Monday would be different, though.
When I entered the university campus, I was astonished to see my female colleagues and female students all (...)
Girls, mothers, grandmothers of the world, let us unite for a globe without wars. Let us stand up for our men, friends, lovers, husbands, sons, grandsons, that they will stay at home with us, so that they will not be laying in foreign countries in anonymous graves, that they will not be (...)
Family of Agnieszka T say they want to ‘save other women in Poland from a similar fate’, as case met with anger over restrictive termination laws
Protests are under way across Poland after the death of a 37-year-old woman this week who was refused an abortion, a year since the country (...)
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