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The Mothership remembers all those whose lives were lost this #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance

Beyond the Backlash: Charting a New Course for Women and Work in a Changing Global Economy

Registration link: link.cgdev.org/l/683263/202...

Beyond the Backlash: Charting a New Course for Women and Work schedule of events (link in reply)

IRL this week at the @cgdev.org annual Birdsall conference at a critical time. Women are LOSING ground in the economy and job markets despite being better equipped than ever to contribute to economies. How do we deal with the backlash? Join us and find out. #genderequality #labormarkets

Press release: Belgian and European governments must act to save USAID supplies and not cut back on funding - shipment of American contraceptives: 20 of the 24 shipments have already been lost – | IPP... 20 shipments of contraceptives lost

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I'm in Reykjavik with global leaders acting for change/ Reykjavik Global Forum

Can't imagine a more powerful start for RGF than being hosted by Iceland's President Halla Tomasdottir. As she said women leaders have all the ideas and solutions we need. We just need more support to continue our #unfinished business. #DareWe

Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents. The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...

Here is the second. Taken together they add up to masked kidnappers and child traffickers being able to walk into any child care facility in the country. 2/2
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Two articles are circulating this week that, taken together, should alarm every parent in the United States. Here is the first 1/2 🧵

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

One of the World’s Most Powerful Women Is Pressing Charges After Getting Groped by a Drunk Dude “If I do not file a complaint, where does that leave all Mexican women?” Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday.

“If I do not file a complaint, where does that leave all Mexican women?” Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday.
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Two women across a desk one says, we are looking for someone who can do the work of two men. Other says, oh so it's only part time?

Around 224 million women still don’t access family planning Since 1990, the number of people using modern contraception methods has doubled globally but despite this, nearly 224 million women in mainly developing regions still do not use safe and effective fam...

For far too many, the basic freedom to decide whether and when to have children is out of reach.

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The Real Economy: Reflections on Care, W20, and Beyond - ICRW October 29 marked the third annual International Day of Care and Support. It’s remarkable that we have only recognized and commemorated the importance of care for three years. And frankly, it is a sig...

My thoughts on W20 and three centuries of failed economic analysis #CareWorkIsWork
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Pandemic childcare funding is running out across the US: ‘The whole system is beginning to implode’ In Colorado, the end of subsidies means some daycares have open slots they can’t fill – even as demand remains high

Economists have gotten it wrong ever since Adam Smith. Demand for care always exceeds supply and our public policy keeps moving in the wrong direction. #careworkiscare #careeconomy
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‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?

Storyteller Extraordinaire @margaretatwood.bsky.social tells her own story:

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Money Matters: The Nation’s Retreat from Kids Federal spending on children has dropped to historic lows, but the steepest cuts are ahead.

Money Matters: The Nation’s Retreat from Kids
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#KidsCantWait

More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.

Investing in Children Strengthens America’s Global Leadership Supporting children’s development through health, nutrition, education, and protection programs helps the U.S. achieve its national security and economic interests, including the Administration’s prio...

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Voices of Care

The Mothership has launched!
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October 29 is the International Day of Care and Support. Care work sustains us yet remains invisible and undervalued. Join the #VoicesofCare movement to demand fair pay, benefits, and protections for caregivers – and honour their vital role in building resilient societies.
#CareEconomies #CareWork

Maria Ni Fhlatharta, Deputy Director at the Center for Inclusive Policy, and Maria Pereira, Senior Research Associate, stand smiling while holding CIP’s policy briefs. Behind them are a CIP banner and the Mexican flag in a display case.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CARE AND SUPPORT!

We highlight how deeply the care and disability agendas overlap: women and girls provide most unpaid care, support needs often remain unmet, and people with disabilities are caregivers too. Care is never a standalone issue.

Read our brief: bit.ly/42Yr5Ks

Voices of Care 2025 - International Day of Care and Support

Today, on the #CareandSupportDay, we celebrate the voices that inspire empathy, inclusion, and social justice.
🎧 Discover the #VoicesOfCare podcast and transform the way we understand care — at home, in the community, and around the world.

Listen on Spotify:
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Introducing The Mothership If Scheherezade had a podcast it might be The Mothership.

The Mothership will be launching tomorrow. #InternationalDayofCare #careworkiswork

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Republicans are taking food aid away from America's babies so they can blackmail Democrats into helping them end your food aid (in case you were confused by the US government shutdown).

Aid cuts shutdown or suspend one in three women’s anti-violence programmes Funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organisations working to end violence against women and girls, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Monday.

Protecting violent abusers isn't just an unintended consequence, it's a central reason why powerful men are arguing for austerity, cuts to social protection and the ending of foreign aid. #EndGBV
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Apparently living in equitable societies remains "stubbornly popular among Americans not in the MAGA camp." 🙄

Stacey Abrams on Why DEI Is the Key to Defeating Trump Stacey Abrams, the former gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, has released a '10 Steps Campaign' to fight Donald Trump and authoritarianism.

👏👏👏
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Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack Strikes, involving over 400 drones and 28 missiles, launched hours after Putin-Trump meeting in Budapest cancelled

Putin bombed a kindergarten. No leader who kills children should remain in power.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

The Trump security apparatus known as ICE continues to seize and detain innocent moms. None of us will be safe until ICE is disbanded and its leaders brought to justice.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Want better quality of life? Put more women in government.

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The Trump regime is imprisoning suburban moms. #resist #NoKings

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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈