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@ctvottawa The hijacking that occurred on #IWD2023 showed #canpoli & funded orgs shamelessly falling over themselves to centre males. They exposed themselves as having done nothing of significance to address real issues affecting women #OnTheBasisOfSex, like repro rights, #femicide, #VAW.
@ctvottawa #Canadians are told ‘there’s no gender equality without trans women’, but no one can back up the rhetoric with substance. No one can answer the simple inquiring question, Why?

Why are female sex-based rights & protections as enshrined in the @CanadianCharter being held hostage?
@ctvottawa @CanadianCharter Why are males, especially rapists and violent offenders who begin identifying as trans after their crimes and convictions, being placed in the Women's prison estate? And all this against the Geneva convention.
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We need to talk about male violence - men killing women & children. Too many women & children have already been killed & it’s the start of a new year - Bruna Fonseca, Natalie McNally & Tausha Haight, her mother Gail Earl, & Tausha’s five children -
identified by family and friends as Macie (17), Briley (12), twins Ammon and Sienna (7), & Gavin (4). I can’t tell you whether these men thought it right to kill, but what I can tell you from 27 years of profiling cases is that they thought it was THEIR RIGHT.
We need to talk about this supercharged sense of entitlement and ownership men believe they have over women and children and stop saying it’s ‘senseless’ ‘tragic’ ‘gun violence’ ‘motiveless’ It’s not.
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This progress is positive. The killer will most likely be known to Natalie, yes. BUT police saying he is not a risk to other women is utter nonsense. He murdered a woman who was pregnant. Of course he is a risk to other women 🚩 EVERY woman knows this. I really wish ImageImage
Men would stop saying ridiculous things like this & focus on what’s important. Appeal to those who know this man. Someone knows him. Listen to the Community intell. I’m hearing that a former partner was stalking Natalie. Do the house-to house, speak to those who knew Natalie &
those whom she confided in. Speak with her family, friends, check social media etc. There’s lots to do in the star burst of a murder. This man is a public protection risk 🚩 Any man who murders a woman is. Help find him. Perhaps you saw the man with the rucksack?
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Can you help find Natalie McNally’s killer? Natalie was 15 weeks pregnant with a baby boy. She was stabbed to death in her home in Lurgan Northern Ireland on Sunday 18 December. This man carrying a rucksack arrived at Silverwood Green near Natalie’s home at 852pm.
He was seen leaving Silverwood Green at 930pm. @PoliceServiceNI are appealing for phone/video footage, CCTV, car dash-cam footage, photos, any information that can help find him. Also, there’s a golf course close to Natalie’s house which leads to the M1 Motorway.
Perhaps you saw the man with the rucksack around this time? Do you recognize his gait in the video? Or maybe you know someone locally who was acting strangely after Natalie’s murder. You can upload info anonymously here mipp.police.uk/operation/PSNI… or
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'Pornography today is so violent and dehumanizing to women and girls that most women can’t look at it without being traumatized...
Canadians have the honour of owning the world’s biggest conveyor of woman-hating, the Montreal-based website Porn Hub. The website is free to access, with no age restrictions and no restrictions on the defilement of women. Rape and torture videos abound...
Porn Hub was visited 42 billion times in 2019. To put this number in perspective, there are 4 billion men on the planet.
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Author of the classic Understanding Terror Networks, Sageman has become only more critical of the U.S. govt’s approach to the problem.

He argues that U.S. society has been transformed for the worse by an extreme overreaction to a limited threat—limited, he insists, Image
by an extreme overreaction to a limited threat—limited, he insists, despite spectacular recent incidents, which he takes fully into account. Indeed, his discussion of just how limited the threat is marks a major contribution to the discussion and debate over the best way to a
just how limited the threat is marks a major contribution to the discussion and debate over the best way to a measured and much more effective response.
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Γιατί ο δημόσιος λόγος είναι ΣΚΟΠΙΜΑ προβληματικός
ώστε να διαιωνίζει τα προβλήματα
αντί να ανοίγει το δρόμο για ουσιαστικές λύσεις

παράδειγμα #γυναικοκτονια
(υπερδιπλο πανωκατωστεντονο Χυτήρογλου με ασορτί κουρτίνες για σπίτι και εξοχικό)

#metooGR #metoo

Ξεκινάμε λοιπόν
Όταν λέμε "νοηματοδοτώ" εννοούμε να δώσουμε ουσία
δηλ η #γυναικοκτονια είναι δολοφονία που συμβαίνει μπικοζ γιολο
ενώ μπορούμε και πρέπει να της δώσουμε νόημα και να την εκμεταλλευτούμε όσο δεν παίρνει
διαστρεβλώνοντάς την
απαξιώνοντάς την
και πατώντας πάνω στους τάφους των
δολοφονημένων γυναικών για να πουλήσουμε
"οικογένεια, τάξις και ηθική"
(βλέπε #συνεπιμέλεια
και μετατροπή του τομέα ΙΣΟΤΗΤΑΣ σε τομέα "οικογενειακής πολιτικής)

Στην εισαγωγή διαβάζουμε ότι όταν βγάζει το μαγιό του διαφωνεί με τον WHO / παγκόσμιο οργανισμό υγείας
όχι μόνο σε
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20 November 2020

#UKRI announced award of 141 new projects under #GCRF all addressing #SDGs

Global challenges being tackled by projects include [d]:
👉🏼environmental disasters
👉🏼education for children living through conflict
👉🏼malnutrition.” #odacuts ukri.org/news/ukri-anno…
Many of these 141 #GCRF award holders had been under strict @beisgovuk imposed embargo on #UKRI for over a year. I know, I was one of them. Delivering during the pandemic meant constant requests to ‘reprofile’ our grants meaning using resource to make projects Covid compliant
Between and in secret because of the embargo we worked out how to ensure partners had access to good enough internet for our partner meetings. This meant investing in and rapidly learning g about mobile technologies #odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts
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1/. At a time when many countries are starting to try & find ways of combating violence against women, #Turkey has just pulled out of #IstanbulConvention

This is the Convention on violence against women

Ironic that it is named after the city in #Turkey. theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…
2/. #Turkey’s withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention is deeply worrying, coming at time when #COVID19 measures/lockdowns have led to a spike in reports of violence

Many women & girls trapped at home with their abusers or unable to easily access safety #VAWG #istanbulsoezlesmesi
3/ Turkey’s withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention will have disastrous consequences for millions of women & girls & to organizations providing vital support to survivors of sexual assault & domestic violence

#Turkey should reconsider this awful decision
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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For 3 years I've wanted to write about why men murder women in the sex trade. I've been waiting for the publication of a study on the subject in Germany that finally come out a month ago. Stay tuned for my summary. Its painful but necessary to know who, when, where and why.
The state sanctioning the sex trade does not prevent lethal violence against women in #prostitution. From hands-off essentially decriminalized Berlin to the nearly prohibitionist German South, here is who is killing whom, when, where, how, and why. ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/who…
Murder in the sex trade is about as old as the industry itself. In Germany paying for sex has rarely ever been expressly illegal, yet sex buyers make up more than half of perpetrators (a lot of serial killers are buyers). It's not illegality of the trade that makes men kill women Image
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I am not okay tonight.

*TW: kidnap/murder*

Last Friday, Andrea Bharatt, a young 23 year old woman was on her way home from work at the magistrate's court, in Trinidad. 1/ Image
She and her co-worker took a taxi home, her co worker was dropped off and she was kidnapped. When her father called her phone, a man picked up and threatened to cut her ears off if he did not receive a ransom. 2/
The country went into a hyper vigilant mode searching for her everywhere with a $50K TT reward. A prominent business owner offered $400K for her safe return. 3/ Image
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Toch een draadje over wat kandidatuur van Kauthar van Groen Links en alcohol met elkaar te maken hebben.

Progressieve liberale femistische vrouwen uiten bezorgdheid over kandidatuur van Kauthar voor een progressieve partij zoals GL.

1/..
İslamist (Gülenist) Enis Odacı koppelt kritiek van de liberale femisten aan het feit dat de dames een borreltje lusten. (Alcohol verboden in İslam).

İn 2013 tijdens de demonstraties rond #Gezi park werd door Erdoğan gezegd dat demonstranten alcohol hadden gedronken in moskee
2/.
Door beeld van ontheiligen een vijandbeeld oproepen tegen terechte demonstratie.

İeder kritiek tegen İslam politiek werd/wordt neergesabeld alsof het om kritiek op İslam geloof zelf was/is.

3/.
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The criticisms around the challenge appear when monochromatic picture isn’t exactly saying enough about the story behind the challenge itself; so here I am trying my best to elaborate.
So it all started as a protest against #femicide occurring in Turkey after the killing of Pinar Gutelkin by her boyfriend. It’s a way for us women to raise our voices & stand in solidarity with the women we have lost.
It takes a lot of effort, strength, perseverance, wisdom, patience, intelligence, and grit to come through as the world has always been skewed against us.
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While #femicide cases are frequent in Turkey, governing AKP announced Turkey will withdraw from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention).

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AKP deputy chair Numan Kurtulmuş, "it was wrong to be a signatory to the Istanbul Convention. However it came into use years ago, we will follow the steps to withdraw from it now."

#GenderedViolence Image
During 18 years of AKP governance in Turkey:

📌At least 7500 #femicide cases reported
📌More than 100.000 women were sexually assaulted
📌There were over 200.000 sexual harassment cases in courts.

#IstanbulConvention Image
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Vladimir Putin's dirty war: A look into Russia's War on women, state-sponsored femicide. (a thread). #OpRussia #Femicide
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05…
Violence against women in Russia: There are at least 13 million victims every year. #OpRussia #Femicide
feriteamorte.it/eng/violence-a…
At least 14,000 women are murdered each year across Russia. Millions more are abused, raped, and tortured. #OpRussia #Femicide
leidenlawblog.nl/articles/putti…
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A fight against human trafficking will always expose drug and weapon trafficking.

A fight for #BlackLivesMatter #opDeathEaters #MeToo #MMIW #opBeast #opCanary #femicide will always help each other.

We are those on the bottom coming for those on the top.
There is no division.
Human rights is not a zero sum game. Those that are trying to create endogroups and provoke a competition for human rights are attempting to deflect from the point.

We are 'governed' by organized crime. End impunity now. #opDeathEaters
This is attempted endogroup creation.

"We can't fight impunity for X because Y fights impunity for X & they are associated with Z."

This is seductive coercion. This is endogroup creation. Do not fall for it. Rape is bad. Racism is bad. End impunity. Follow ideas, not people. ImageImage
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The gunman in #Canada’s worst mass shooting was a white man. Most mass shooters are.

Police in white supremacist countries downplay the violence of white men.
Esp when it’s directed against marginalized women such as indigenous women and sex workers 👉🏽 google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.…
(cw: vaw) Robert Pickton, one of the most notorious serial killers in history. He targeted mostly sex workers and Indigenous women, some dealing with addictions or mental health issues, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He admitted to butchering 49 women and feeding them to pigs.
When mothers, fathers or other relatives would go to Vancouver police to report their loved one missing, they were dismissed.

"And their response invariably would be: 'Well, we don't have time to look for hookers. Your daughter is a drug addict. What do you expect us to do?“
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Before worst mass shooting in #Canada - April 18/19 - one of the worst was Montreal École Polytechnique shooting of 1989, where 15 women were killed.

Responsible for both: misogynist men.

#Femicide
“If we look at the history of mass shootings, we can see that in many cases they begin with an act of gender-based violence, whether it’s femicide or intimate partner violence,”

One of most common predictors of future violent behaviour: domestic violence vs partners/daughters
#Canadian examples of misogynist attacks on women include some of the deadliest killing sprees the country has ever seen:

- Toronto Van attack, 2018. Self-proclaimed incel (someone who blames women for their inability to have sex) ran over dozens of people on Yonge Street.
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#Vivilikketie

Lawyer Richard Korver @jeadvocaat finds the compensation of the Dutch government for victims in youth care no recognition, but an insult: Youth care sexual abuse victims receive the same 5000 euro as someone who received a slap once.

trouw.nl/binnenland/com…
@jeadvocaat "At school we have been taught we must first apologise as well promise to never do it again. The promise is missing from these ministers. Where is the plan of action that should prevent abuse in the future? Where are the new protocols and rules?"

- @jeadvocaat
@jeadvocaat The Dutch government recently apologised to the many Dutch citizens who have been assaulted or abused as children in youth care since 1945. All victims receive 5000 euros. A sexual abuse victim receives the same compensation as someone who was spanked.

trouw.nl/binnenland/gel…
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One of the pieces of work that I am most proud of is also the most difficult to work on. It's the @Womens_Aid #Femicide Watch. For over 20 years we've charted the violent killing of women in Ireland. For just over 10 years, this has been my responsibility.
The file started in 1996, a year of unprecedented female homicide, with 19 women killed. Since then we have recorded 216 violent deaths of women with 16 children being killed alongside their mothers. There is a tendency to look at cases as isolated incidents. #Femicide
But what our #Femicide Watch allows us to do is to illustrate links between domestic violence & homicide and the danger posed to women. We can learn from these absolute tragedies about what needs to happen to better protect women and children & prevent the future deaths.
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For #IWD2018 a look at why Prime Minister Modi's #BetiBachaoBetiPadhao (Educate girls to Save them) program will not stop India's mass #femicide until these issues are addressed. Link & THREAD.
opendemocracy.net/5050/rita-bane…
1/ Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ (Save the Girl, Educate the Girl) programme, launched in January 2015, was the first time since India's independence in 1947 that the Indian government had raised the issue of female genocide in a public campaign.
2/ British census data in the 18th century had attributed India’s skewed #sexratio to female #infanticide and other forms of #femicide, such as sati, but after independence subsequent governments remained bizarrely indifferent to the issue even as it reached epidemic proportions.
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In Delhi a 11 month old girl died because the hospital refused to treat her without an #Aadhaar card.

#AadhaarFemicide
#AadhaarWarOnWomen
#AadhaarKills
#DestroyTheAadhaar

amarujala.com/amp/delhi-ncr/…
2/n.
In Chandigarh, a woman was refused #abortion because she did not have an Aadhaar. She sought a back alley abortion and suffered extreme bleeding and complications.

#AadhaarWarOnWomen

#AadhaarFemicide

#AadhaarKills

#DestroyTheAadhaar

dnaindia.com/india/report-a…
3/n. HIV+ women in India have stopped their treatment as hospitals demand the biometric Aadhaar. The women fear loss of anonymity & social stigma on them and their families. newindianexpress.com/states/karnata…

#AadhaarWarOnWomen
#AadhaarFemicide
#AadhaarKills
#DestroyTheAadhaar
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