Women’s Aid launches ‘Change That Lasts’: a new approach to domestic abuse
Friday 1st July 2016

The national domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid, in wider partnership with domestic abuse charity SafeLives, is launching a new comprehensive approach and scheme to tackle domestic abuse called ‘Change that Lasts’.  Read more...

In a pornified culture, even 'smashing patriarchy' is a fetish
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust. March 28, 2016

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

I’ve always appreciated this quote from Assata Shakur and felt it to be ironclad radical truth. Then I woke up to the insidious reality of patriarchy. After too many years dick-footing around, I finally recognized male pattern violence for what it is: the worst problem in the world.  Read more...

Peru compensates woman in historic UN Human Rights abortion case
In 2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian girl, named K.L., was 14 weeks pregnant when doctors at the public hospital in Lima diagnosed the foetus with anencephaly. Anencephaly is a fatal birth defect, where the foetus lacks most or all of the forebrain. Doctors told her that continuing the pregnancy would put her life and health at risk. She was recommended to have an abortion.  Read more...