Lockdown is resulting in an increase in domestic abuse. This is one of the gender issues that the recently-formed Equality Fund in Canada is looking at and helping with. In this article they discuss their scope and aims, especially in light of the pandemic. In a Pandemic, Gender Equality More Important Than Ever Jessica Houssian, […]
Coronavirus: When Home Gets Violent under Lockdown in Europe
Coronavirus: When home gets violent under lockdown in Europe Natalie Higgins BBC News, Brussels, April 12, 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52216966 Flags were lowered to half-mast and three days of mourning were declared in the Spanish town of Almassora to mark Carina’s death. In normal times, this community near Valencia would have gathered in silence to remember their […]
Femicides, Violence Against Women, and the Covid-19 Pandemic
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In February of this year the brutal killing and mutilation of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, her body skinned and missing some of its organs, and the abduction and murder of 7-year-old Fátima Aldrighett, her tortured body discovered in a plastic bag, sparked enormous outrage in Mexico and around the world. According to my friend, who […]
Activists Appear Unveiled in Tehran on Women’s Day
Activists Appear Unveiled in Tehran on Women’s Day Michael Lipin, VOA Persian service, March 08, 2019 https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/activists-appear-unveiled-tehran-womens-day Small groups of Iranian women celebrated International Women’s Day by appearing publicly unveiled in Tehran and calling on Iranians to support their defiance of mandatory veiling in the Islamist nation. VOA Persian received and verified a video clip […]
Women’s Day Spurs Femicide Protests Across Mexico & Turkey
Please join our Collective Meditation, with the Mother and Archangel Michael where we say “Enough” to gender violence. Collective Meditation: 8 Minutes @ 8 AM and/or PM – Holding Love and Sending Love Mexican Women to March Against Gender Violence By Associated Press, March 07, 2020 https://www.voanews.com/americas/mexican-women-march-against-gender-violence MEXICO CITY – Protests against gender violence in […]
International Women’s Day: Clashes, Coronavirus, and Women Prepare to Strike
By Jason Slotkin, NPR, March 8, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813477367/international-womens-day-2020-clashes-coronavirus-and-women-prepare-to-strike Organizers and marchers have been out marking International Women’s Day. A holiday with its origins in the labor and socialist movements of the 20th century, the day now recognized by the United Nations occasions rallies and events from Caracas to Baghdad to spotlight issues facing women globally. […]
Mexican Women Try the Power of Silence
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In quiet protest of gender violence, many women plan a one-day retreat from public life March 9. Their temporary absence might bring permanent change. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2020 https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2020/0227/Mexican-women-try-the-power-of-silence On March 9, much of Mexico will become very quiet. The silence, in fact, is meant to be […]
International Women’s Day 2020 — Red Hands, Shoes, Masks & Dresses — “Enough Violence!”
www.voice of freedom.ca Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years. March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day. This latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. […]
Russian Advocates against Domestic Violence Branded ‘Enemies of the Family’
Warning: This story contains graphic details By Chris Brown, CBC News, February 25, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-domestic-violence-1.5437241 Given the savagery of what Margarita Gracheva’s husband did to her, you’d think Russian lawmakers would want to stop it from happening to other women. Instead, attitudes toward legislating tougher laws on domestic violence remain stuck in another century. Two […]
Sex Trafficking in Canada and America
Women being exploited is an age-old issue on Earth. What we’re seeing Now are innovative ways for this to stop. Also, please join 8 Minutes @ 8 AM/PM to send Love. ‘My name is Karly’: Sex trafficking victim joins police on front lines in battle against exploitation Jennifer Barr, CBC News, February 18, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/national-human-trafficking-1.5459509 […]
Women in Mexico City Rallied Against Femicide With Hundreds of Red Shoes
By Erica Sanchez, Leah Rodriguez, Global Citizen, January 13, 2020 https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/mexico-city-femicide-protest-red-shoes/ A series of performance demonstrations in Mexico City are bringing attention to the growing gender-based violence rates throughout the country. Activists placed hundreds of painted-red women’s shoes on the main square in Zocalo, Mexico City’s cultural and religious hub, on Saturday, according to the […]
The Threats and Abuse Outspoken Pakistani Women Receive (2016)
(We have taken the executive decision of no longer making our links “hot” to address the malware problem.) Backgrounder: The threats and abuse outspoken Pakistani women receive (2016) BBC.com, July 19, 2016 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36824514 The apparent “honour killing” of Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has led to renewed debate over women’s rights in the country, […]
Femicide: Big Rallies across France to Condemn Domestic Violence
Femicide: Big rallies across France to condemn domestic violence BBC.com, Nov. 23, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50531213 Marches have been held in dozens of French cities to condemn femicide and other forms of gender-based violence. Using the hashtag #NousToutes (All of Us), protesters accuse the authorities of turning a blind eye to the problem. Measures to tackle domestic […]
Transcript ~ Archangel Gabrielle on AHWAA: Start Small, Recognizing the Magnitude of Gender Inequality, June 22, 2017
In the Throes of Ascension Archangel Gabrielle An Hour With An Angel, June 22, 2017 Linda Dillon: Channel for the Council of Love Steve Beckow: Host, InLight Radio Steve Beckow: We are welcoming Archangel Gabrielle today who, I hope, will give us an update on the state of emergent gender equality in the world, how […]