Iran’s jailed rights advocate Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Proposed by Alexia Tsouni Narges Mohammadi is honoured for her fight against ‘the oppression of women’ in Iran at ‘tremendous personal costs’. Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and relentless fight for social reform. While …

Women’s Court: feminist approach to justice – Foča case

Women’s Court – a space for women’s testimonies on their experiences of injustice suffered during the war and in peace – instead of objects of injustice and violence, women become subjects of justice. Women’s Court – feminist approach to justice – makes visible the continuity of injustice and violence against women, both in war and …

Feminist Anti-War Resistance – abortion rights petition

Post by Sissy Vovou Tuesday 28 February 2023, by Collective “Russians are dying out”, officials and parliamentarians tragically tell us from the rostrum. It would seem, indeed, that the birth rate is not rising, and that in April 2022 Russia recorded its lowest birth rate since 1943-1944. In January 2023, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin …

Turkey: We Give Up NOT A WORD of the Istanbul Convention

Proposed for publication by Fotini Sianou We Give Up NOT A WORD of the Istanbul Convention, despite the Council of State’s Decision! On July 19, 2022, the Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, announced its decision on a series of lawsuits filed for the annulment of President Erdogan’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul …

Defending the reproductive rights of Ukrainian women-a global feminist struggle

International appeal signed by the board of the Women’s Rights Organisation TOMOV-Greece Defending the reproductive rights of Ukrainian women in Ukraine, Poland, across and beyond the European Union: a global feminist struggle Since February 24th, Ukrainian women are facing increasing levels of gender based violence as a consequence of the Russian invasion: (1) Russian troops …