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Academics In Support of Professor Homa Hoodfar

Campaign run by Women in Black The renowned Canadian-Iranian anthropologist, Professor Homa Hoodfar, has been arrested in Iran and has not had access to her lawyer, family members or to needed medical care. In early March just before her scheduled departure from Iran, the Counter Intelligence Unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard raided Prof. Hoodfar’s …

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Our bodies are our own! Małgorzata Tracz on women’s rights in Wrocław

Our bodies are not the property of the government, of politicians or of the episcopate. Our bodies are our own! – said the Chairperson of the Polish Green Party Zieloni Małgorzata Tracz during the demonstration of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy on the 3rd April in Wrocław. Read the speech. Today I had …

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Protests in Poland as proposed laws curtail women’s rights

Religiously conservative Law & Justice party embarks on nuclear family agenda, described as ‘payback time for the church’ after years of liberalism Campaigners are planning to step up resistance to Poland’s ultra-conservative government after it cleared a constitutional path for hardline law changes, expected to include a total ban on abortion and curbs to gender …

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