FiLiA
@filiacharity.bsky.social
Building Sisterhood and Solidarity, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Defending Women’s Human Rights
#FiLiA2027 is in Blackpool, Lancashire
Tickets and so much more @ https://linktr.ee/filiauk
#FiLiA2027 is in Blackpool, Lancashire
Tickets and so much more @ https://linktr.ee/filiauk
Starved, Protested, Arrested: Unearthing Annie Mills at the Marx Memorial Library. Join us for a tour of the library & an archive workshop on this little-known activist of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement.
🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm
📍 Marx Memorial Library, London
🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML
🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm
📍 Marx Memorial Library, London
🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Starved, Protested, Arrested: Unearthing Annie Mills at the Marx Memorial Library. Join us for a tour of the library & an archive workshop on this little-known activist of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement.
🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm
📍 Marx Memorial Library, London
🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML
🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm
📍 Marx Memorial Library, London
🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML
#MVAWG accounts for at least 15.8% of all recorded crime, has been declared a national threat and the Gov't has committed to halving this within 10 years.
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
December 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#MVAWG accounts for at least 15.8% of all recorded crime, has been declared a national threat and the Gov't has committed to halving this within 10 years.
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
And next week, our other #Wales event.
We know it's not easy for all Women to travel to #Cardiff and we want to hear from women across #Wales to find out how the #FiLiAWomensAssembly can support you.
🗓️ Wednesday 10th December 7pm
🌐 ONLINE
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-WalesZoom
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days
We know it's not easy for all Women to travel to #Cardiff and we want to hear from women across #Wales to find out how the #FiLiAWomensAssembly can support you.
🗓️ Wednesday 10th December 7pm
🌐 ONLINE
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-WalesZoom
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And next week, our other #Wales event.
We know it's not easy for all Women to travel to #Cardiff and we want to hear from women across #Wales to find out how the #FiLiAWomensAssembly can support you.
🗓️ Wednesday 10th December 7pm
🌐 ONLINE
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-WalesZoom
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days
We know it's not easy for all Women to travel to #Cardiff and we want to hear from women across #Wales to find out how the #FiLiAWomensAssembly can support you.
🗓️ Wednesday 10th December 7pm
🌐 ONLINE
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-WalesZoom
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days
Don't forget, tomorrow is our next event in #Wales - a Women-only meeting in #Cardiff & share your views on what Women need from the #FiLiAWomensAssembly in Wales.
🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Don't forget, tomorrow is our next event in #Wales - a Women-only meeting in #Cardiff & share your views on what Women need from the #FiLiAWomensAssembly in Wales.
🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
🗓️ Saturday 6th December 11am
🎟️ bit.ly/FWA-Wales
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
Our advocacy works; we have helped 5 Women reach safety & relocate to #Canada but the need is still urgent. Please continue to support us to help every one of them reach safety & freedom.
Donate to the FiLiA Kakuma Campaign➡️ filia.enthuse.com/Kakuma-campaign#!/
Your donations save lives! #16Days
Donate to the FiLiA Kakuma Campaign➡️ filia.enthuse.com/Kakuma-campaign#!/
Your donations save lives! #16Days
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Our advocacy works; we have helped 5 Women reach safety & relocate to #Canada but the need is still urgent. Please continue to support us to help every one of them reach safety & freedom.
Donate to the FiLiA Kakuma Campaign➡️ filia.enthuse.com/Kakuma-campaign#!/
Your donations save lives! #16Days
Donate to the FiLiA Kakuma Campaign➡️ filia.enthuse.com/Kakuma-campaign#!/
Your donations save lives! #16Days
🧵 Since we first met & interviewed nine lesbians in the #Kakuma refugee camp, we have walked alongside them & their sisters through moments of hope & far too many hardships.
Read more of their stories on our campaign page ➡️ filia.org.uk/kakuma-campaign
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomanLeftBehind
Read more of their stories on our campaign page ➡️ filia.org.uk/kakuma-campaign
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomanLeftBehind
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🧵 Since we first met & interviewed nine lesbians in the #Kakuma refugee camp, we have walked alongside them & their sisters through moments of hope & far too many hardships.
Read more of their stories on our campaign page ➡️ filia.org.uk/kakuma-campaign
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomanLeftBehind
Read more of their stories on our campaign page ➡️ filia.org.uk/kakuma-campaign
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomanLeftBehind
In our report, Making Policy Work for Women, one of the recommendations to Gov't was that they publish a resourced, cross-Governmental strategy for the target to halve #MVAWG in the next decade.
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #EndVAWG
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #EndVAWG
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In our report, Making Policy Work for Women, one of the recommendations to Gov't was that they publish a resourced, cross-Governmental strategy for the target to halve #MVAWG in the next decade.
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #EndVAWG
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #EndVAWG
Feminist Resistance to the Porn Industry – Gemma Aitchison, Rakel Nævdal, with chair @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social on how feminists are resisting exploitation, exposing truths & demanding change (w/Gail Dines @culturereframed.bsky.social via video).
📺 youtu.be/4FS5IANO26k
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
📺 youtu.be/4FS5IANO26k
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Feminist Resistance to the Porn Industry – Gemma Aitchison, Rakel Nævdal, with chair @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social on how feminists are resisting exploitation, exposing truths & demanding change (w/Gail Dines @culturereframed.bsky.social via video).
📺 youtu.be/4FS5IANO26k
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
📺 youtu.be/4FS5IANO26k
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
The FiLiA Women’s Assembly is a space for Women to come together and connect, build skills, form networks and take action on the issues that matter most to them. Whenever policies affect Women, Women must have the power to shape them.
🔗 filia.org.uk/filia-womens-assembly
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
🔗 filia.org.uk/filia-womens-assembly
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The FiLiA Women’s Assembly is a space for Women to come together and connect, build skills, form networks and take action on the issues that matter most to them. Whenever policies affect Women, Women must have the power to shape them.
🔗 filia.org.uk/filia-womens-assembly
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
🔗 filia.org.uk/filia-womens-assembly
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
FiLiA’s Campaigns & Policy Team are working to ensure Women are not just consulted, but actively involved in shaping the policies that affect them.
Because when Women are part of the process, policy is better-made, better-targeted & better-delivered.
➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
Because when Women are part of the process, policy is better-made, better-targeted & better-delivered.
➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
FiLiA’s Campaigns & Policy Team are working to ensure Women are not just consulted, but actively involved in shaping the policies that affect them.
Because when Women are part of the process, policy is better-made, better-targeted & better-delivered.
➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
Because when Women are part of the process, policy is better-made, better-targeted & better-delivered.
➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
In 2024, we conducted extensive research to identify the issues which are most pressing for Women.
Our findings confirm what women already know – policies are failing to reflect their lives, needs & experiences.
Read about our report & launch here: 🔗⬇️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
Our findings confirm what women already know – policies are failing to reflect their lives, needs & experiences.
Read about our report & launch here: 🔗⬇️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In 2024, we conducted extensive research to identify the issues which are most pressing for Women.
Our findings confirm what women already know – policies are failing to reflect their lives, needs & experiences.
Read about our report & launch here: 🔗⬇️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
Our findings confirm what women already know – policies are failing to reflect their lives, needs & experiences.
Read about our report & launch here: 🔗⬇️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
As we noted at the time, govts have choices on how to balance the books, but with these policy changes, they are choosing to make life worse for some of the most vulnerable & poorest in society #IDPD2025 #IDPD
Read our briefing to Parliamentarians ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-Parl...
Read our briefing to Parliamentarians ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-Parl...
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
As we noted at the time, govts have choices on how to balance the books, but with these policy changes, they are choosing to make life worse for some of the most vulnerable & poorest in society #IDPD2025 #IDPD
Read our briefing to Parliamentarians ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-Parl...
Read our briefing to Parliamentarians ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-Parl...
We called on the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions to:
➡️Stop the cuts
➡️Address the systemic barriers for disabled Women to work
➡️Actively listen to disabled Women, and the people who care for them
Read our full response ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-resp...
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
➡️Stop the cuts
➡️Address the systemic barriers for disabled Women to work
➡️Actively listen to disabled Women, and the people who care for them
Read our full response ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-resp...
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We called on the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions to:
➡️Stop the cuts
➡️Address the systemic barriers for disabled Women to work
➡️Actively listen to disabled Women, and the people who care for them
Read our full response ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-resp...
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
➡️Stop the cuts
➡️Address the systemic barriers for disabled Women to work
➡️Actively listen to disabled Women, and the people who care for them
Read our full response ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-resp...
#IDPD2025 #IDPD
Surrogacy must be part of #16Days – to shine a light on how #surrogacy is inherently exploitative, how it exposes Women & children to #humanrights violations, how it is characterised by violence against Women & children. Ban it now.
➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16DaysOfActivism
➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16DaysOfActivism
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Surrogacy must be part of #16Days – to shine a light on how #surrogacy is inherently exploitative, how it exposes Women & children to #humanrights violations, how it is characterised by violence against Women & children. Ban it now.
➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16DaysOfActivism
➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16DaysOfActivism
...and sisters from #Blackpool joined us to reveal the location of the #FiLiA2026 (now #FiLiA2027) in quite an amusing fashion! Register now for Early Bird Tickets! 💥
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets ⬇️
We left not with an ending, but with a #Feminist revolution in motion...
#Sisterhood and #Solidarity
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets ⬇️
We left not with an ending, but with a #Feminist revolution in motion...
#Sisterhood and #Solidarity
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
...and sisters from #Blackpool joined us to reveal the location of the #FiLiA2026 (now #FiLiA2027) in quite an amusing fashion! Register now for Early Bird Tickets! 💥
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets ⬇️
We left not with an ending, but with a #Feminist revolution in motion...
#Sisterhood and #Solidarity
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets ⬇️
We left not with an ending, but with a #Feminist revolution in motion...
#Sisterhood and #Solidarity
At the #FiLiA2025 closing, our sisters from #Kakuma joined us via a live Zoom and as always, there is so much to learn from them – their resilience and their compassion and above all, their unwavering #Sisterhood and #Solidarity
📺 youtu.be/_NZ4hW4T8qYi
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomenLeftBehind
📺 youtu.be/_NZ4hW4T8qYi
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomenLeftBehind
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
At the #FiLiA2025 closing, our sisters from #Kakuma joined us via a live Zoom and as always, there is so much to learn from them – their resilience and their compassion and above all, their unwavering #Sisterhood and #Solidarity
📺 youtu.be/_NZ4hW4T8qYi
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomenLeftBehind
📺 youtu.be/_NZ4hW4T8qYi
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #NoWomenLeftBehind
In September, the FiLiA Young Women's group had a stall at #SussexUni Freshers Fair & asked ‘What are the biggest problems young Women face in 2025?’
Read what the students had to say at our new blog ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #AndrewTate #MVAWG #Spiking #OnlyFans
Read what the students had to say at our new blog ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #AndrewTate #MVAWG #Spiking #OnlyFans
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
In September, the FiLiA Young Women's group had a stall at #SussexUni Freshers Fair & asked ‘What are the biggest problems young Women face in 2025?’
Read what the students had to say at our new blog ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #AndrewTate #MVAWG #Spiking #OnlyFans
Read what the students had to say at our new blog ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism #AndrewTate #MVAWG #Spiking #OnlyFans
In our accompanying letter to the Welsh Government, we urge officials to reform their approach to Equality Impact Assessments and widen stakeholder engagement to include grassroots women’s organisations.
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In our accompanying letter to the Welsh Government, we urge officials to reform their approach to Equality Impact Assessments and widen stakeholder engagement to include grassroots women’s organisations.
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
Last week, we wrote to the EHRC in response to their formal enforcement action concerning serious failures in the Welsh Government’s compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last week, we wrote to the EHRC in response to their formal enforcement action concerning serious failures in the Welsh Government’s compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
🔗 filia.org.uk/s/Letter-to-...
We responded to the EHRC's consultation on the Code of practice for services, public functions and associations earlier this year; read our full response here ➡️ filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-resp...
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We responded to the EHRC's consultation on the Code of practice for services, public functions and associations earlier this year; read our full response here ➡️ filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-resp...
Thank you, Lady Falkner, for your leadership and interventions in balancing the rights of everyone, in your role as Chair of the #EHRC
We are especially grateful for your defence of women's human rights, especially in the face of toxicity & hostility.
🔗 www.equalityhumanrights.com/kishwer-baro...
We are especially grateful for your defence of women's human rights, especially in the face of toxicity & hostility.
🔗 www.equalityhumanrights.com/kishwer-baro...
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thank you, Lady Falkner, for your leadership and interventions in balancing the rights of everyone, in your role as Chair of the #EHRC
We are especially grateful for your defence of women's human rights, especially in the face of toxicity & hostility.
🔗 www.equalityhumanrights.com/kishwer-baro...
We are especially grateful for your defence of women's human rights, especially in the face of toxicity & hostility.
🔗 www.equalityhumanrights.com/kishwer-baro...
For #16Days read about our #WomenFirst team, Women with lived & living experience.
Via their Audit Tool, they aim to help local authorities build on any existing good practice & address gaps, to improve outcomes for Women exploited in the sex trade.
🔗 filia.org.uk/women-first
#16DaysOfActivism
Via their Audit Tool, they aim to help local authorities build on any existing good practice & address gaps, to improve outcomes for Women exploited in the sex trade.
🔗 filia.org.uk/women-first
#16DaysOfActivism
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
For #16Days read about our #WomenFirst team, Women with lived & living experience.
Via their Audit Tool, they aim to help local authorities build on any existing good practice & address gaps, to improve outcomes for Women exploited in the sex trade.
🔗 filia.org.uk/women-first
#16DaysOfActivism
Via their Audit Tool, they aim to help local authorities build on any existing good practice & address gaps, to improve outcomes for Women exploited in the sex trade.
🔗 filia.org.uk/women-first
#16DaysOfActivism
For #16days, from #FiLiA2025, the session Caste is a Feminist Issue.
📺 youtu.be/j52q3aLQg_M
Vandana Aparanti, Terezia Rostas & Harumi Gellineau explored caste & stressed the urgency of cross-caste & Feminist #solidarity, with chair Sukhvinder Kaur @sikhwomensaiduk.bsky.social
#16DaysOfActivism
📺 youtu.be/j52q3aLQg_M
Vandana Aparanti, Terezia Rostas & Harumi Gellineau explored caste & stressed the urgency of cross-caste & Feminist #solidarity, with chair Sukhvinder Kaur @sikhwomensaiduk.bsky.social
#16DaysOfActivism
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
For #16days, from #FiLiA2025, the session Caste is a Feminist Issue.
📺 youtu.be/j52q3aLQg_M
Vandana Aparanti, Terezia Rostas & Harumi Gellineau explored caste & stressed the urgency of cross-caste & Feminist #solidarity, with chair Sukhvinder Kaur @sikhwomensaiduk.bsky.social
#16DaysOfActivism
📺 youtu.be/j52q3aLQg_M
Vandana Aparanti, Terezia Rostas & Harumi Gellineau explored caste & stressed the urgency of cross-caste & Feminist #solidarity, with chair Sukhvinder Kaur @sikhwomensaiduk.bsky.social
#16DaysOfActivism
The Crime and Policing Bill, currently in the House of Lords, contains a provision which would criminalise mothers who attempt to escape an abusive partner by going back to their home country with their children.
Read more ➡️ @filiahaguemums.bsky.social
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk/2025/11/24/d...
Read more ➡️ @filiahaguemums.bsky.social
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk/2025/11/24/d...
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Crime and Policing Bill, currently in the House of Lords, contains a provision which would criminalise mothers who attempt to escape an abusive partner by going back to their home country with their children.
Read more ➡️ @filiahaguemums.bsky.social
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk/2025/11/24/d...
Read more ➡️ @filiahaguemums.bsky.social
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk/2025/11/24/d...
As part of the #16days, we’re proud to highlight @filiahaguemums.bsky.social, a volunteer-led campaign working with frontline experts & victim-survivors to end injustices for mothers & children fleeing DA, created by #HagueAbductionConvention
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk
#16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk
#16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
As part of the #16days, we’re proud to highlight @filiahaguemums.bsky.social, a volunteer-led campaign working with frontline experts & victim-survivors to end injustices for mothers & children fleeing DA, created by #HagueAbductionConvention
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk
#16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW
🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk
#16DaysOfActivism #IDEVAW