Year: 2023

  • A statement on Palestine and Gaza

    by Rosalind Petchesky, one of the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace at a demonstration at the White House, Washington DC, USA, on 27 December 2023, Al-Jazeera Video https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1739975664269471886

  • Labour women MPs 1987

    Photo in the Guardian article: Women in politics ‘We needed a massive amount of resilience’: the female Labour MPs from the class of ’87 At the general election that year, the number of women in the Commons jumped to (an albeit still tiny) 41. Some talk about the sexism – and the solidarity SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/we-needed-a-massive-amount-of-resilience-the-female-labour-mps-from-the-class-of-87?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

  • 73 women journalists will spend 8 March behind bars

    Reporters Without Borders Press Release 8 March 2023 On International Women’s Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned women journalists throughout the world, and sounds the alarm about the disappearance of women journalists from the Afghan media landscape. Of the 550 journalists and media workers who are currently…