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Day 7 #16daysofactivism #16DaysOfActivism2025 #16days #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness’ Screening and Panel Nominated for the 2016 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short, this 40-minute film tells the harrowing true story of Saba, a young woman from Pakistan’s Punjab region who survives an attempted ‘honour’ killing by her own father and uncle after marrying for love. Sign up here. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-girl-in-the-river-the-price-of-forgiveness-screening-and-panel-tickets-1900157063929?aff=oddtdtcreator EIDA webinar - supporting colleagues in the workplace who are subjected to domestic abuse. Sign up here. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domestic-abuse-supporting-colleagues-in-the-workplace-tickets-1069068064359?aff=oddtdtcreator

Day 7 #16daysofactivism #16DaysOfActivism2025 #16days #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence

Day 6 #16DaysOfActivism #16Days2025 Domestic abuse is the leading cause of homelessness for women. You can support women and children by donating to your local food bank. Search for your local food bank here. www.trussell.org.uk/emergency-fo...

Image description Dr Dalgarno invited speaker at PEEPSA SHERA Research Group https://www.shera-research.com Founder and Director will be presenting to the PEEPSA victim-survivor support Group on health, trauma and beyond the family courts. To support PEEPSA’s essential work, including building Christmas packages for victim-survivor families in need, donate here: https://peepsa.org HERSANA Free event When Technology Turns Toxic: AI, Abuse & The Realities of the Black Femme Experience in the Digital Age 10:00am to 11:30am online. This 90-minute, entry-level workshop explores how tech abuse and emerging AI tools are reshaping the landscape of gender-based violence, particularly for Black femmes. Through an intersectional lens, participants will unpack how power, bias, and digital control intersect in the lives of survivors https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-black-femme-experience-of-the-digital-world-ai-tech-and-virtual-abuse-tickets-1851779555499?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

Image description Suzy Lamplugh Trust Suzy Lamplugh Trust are offering a 30-minute Bystander Intervention Training to empower everyone to be active bystanders when they see harassment taking place. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stand-up-against-street-harassment-session-tickets-1691765569359?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A1wugfit%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTA0NzY3OTk2MS4xNzYxMDQzNTEy%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NjEwNDM1MTIkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjEwNDM1MTIkajYwJGwwJGgw Signpost to support By directing women experiencing abuse to the right support, churches can play an important role in standing alongside women who are trying to leave or recover from abusive relationships. Share Safe in Faith’s signposting toolkit to help upskill your church leaders. Signposting Toolkit: https://caritaswestminster.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Signposting-Toolkit-12.pdf www.shera-research.com

Image description Day 3 #16days #16daysofactivism #16daysofactivismagainstgenderbasedviolence Free Fleet Street Sound Bath This relaxing sound bath free meditation session has been designed to reduce stress, ease tension, and promote mental clarity through soothing sounds produced by instruments like gongs, crystal bowls, and tuning forks. Sign up here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sound-bath-meditation-tickets-1080592223429?aff=oddtdtcreator Safe and Together free training for educators in Angus The Safe and Together model provides a framework for working in partnership with the non-offending parent, while holding the perpetrator accountable to achieve better outcomes for families. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/s-t-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence-tickets-1764193643679?msockid=16ffe12446ba64ac2669f7a3472c6589

25th November: The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women These are some reasons we speak up for women: Domestic abuse features in nearly 90% of family court cases There is a pro-contact culture of institutional violence where violence against women and children is dismissed, minimised or seen as historic Join our global movement to end violence against women and children in the family courts www.shera-research.com Join the 16 Days conversation on social media: use #NoExcuse and #ACTtoEndViolence. Use #WeSpeakUp on social media to spread the word. Waltham Forest Launch Event https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16-days-of-activism-launch-event-tickets-1965078507715 Orange the World Get involved by wearing something orange to symbolise a brighter future free from violence against women and girls.

White Ribbon Day – Take the Pledge Everyone can speak up this White Ribbon Day by sharing a photo or video on social media, at work and with friends and family, saying why you speak up for women and girls. Join the 16 Days conversation on social media: use #NoExcuse and #ACTtoEndViolence. Use #WeSpeakUp on social media to spread the word. Waltham Forest Launch Event https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16-days-of-activism-launch-event-tickets-1965078507715 Orange the World Get involved by wearing something orange to symbolise a brighter future free from violence against women and girls.

Days 1 -4 of #16daysOfActivism #OrangeTheWorld #NoExcuse

‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago Claire Throssell has been central to the campaign to repeal parental contact laws following the deaths of her two sons at the hands of their father in 2014

What every parent and child owes to
@clairethrossellmbe
, words cannot express🙏. “I made him one last promise. I said to him: ‘No more children are going to die like you.’”

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- more to follow soon

Family Courts ACTION ONE: ASSUMED PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY BREAKING GOVERNMENT REFORM: Sex offenders to be denied parental responsibility The government announced plans to repeal the presumption of parental invol…

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@sisterssalon.bsky.social for this collation of #familycourt updates & campaigns - several led by SHERA & PEEPSA's
@sarahtaylor82.bsky.social. We are also calling for a review into all cases where 'parental alienation' has been used to remove a child brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-eight...

Check out @officialuom #blackhistorymonth events here: www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display...

Wrongful Gender Stereotypes in Family Courts: Discriminatory Legal Barriers to Women’s Access to Justice Where we are and where we need to be...

We have had some huge achievements over the last few weeks, but there is much more to do - we will continue our efforts until we dismantle gender inequality drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/wrongful-g...

Justice Committee to examine reform of the Family Court.

They will question the President of the Family Division and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner during an evidence session in Parliament on Tuesday, October 28 examining reform of the Family Court. committees.parliament.uk/event/25375

Globally, an estimated 736 million women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner, a non-partner sexual violence, or both at least once in their lifetime.

I am over the moon that this Labour Government has agreed to bring an end to presumption of contact in the family courts.

Huge thanks to the Prime Minister, @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social, @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social, Sarah Sackman, @womensaid.bsky.social, @sheraresearch.bsky.social, @drproudman.bsky.social, and my colleagues @marietidball.bsky.social, Natalie Fleet, and so many more.

Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article Complaint sent to Ipso over interview with ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother in Michael Gove-edited magazine Four alleged survivors of sexual abuse by Andrew Tate have complained to the press regulator about an interview with the self-proclaimed misogynist influencer and his brother in the Spectator magazine. The women, who have filed a high court claim accusing Tate of rape, coercive control and assault and battery, claim that the article, written by deputy editor, Freddy Gray, is inaccurate and misleading. Continue reading...

Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article

'Freedom Day': When the Family Court Lets Go, but the Damage Remains The day they say women and child victim-survivors are 'free' from Family Court proceedings, but they've already lost too much.

This post explores ‘Freedom Day’- the day children can no longer be forced into contact with an abusive parent, nor subjected to interference from courts. It marks the end of a long, traumatic process, & the beginning of another: the aftermath... drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/freedom-da...

#reproductiveabuse #reproductivecoercion #familycourt #familylaw

“The [Family] Court Took My Baby": Reproductive Coercion/Abuse in the Name of Fathers' Rights. 'Neutral' Law, Coercive Outcomes: How Family Courts Police Reproduction

This post discusses reproductive coercion of #mothers/#women in the family courts and the linked outcomes for #children. It attends to the clear contradictions between health policies that promote mother-child bonds & legal policies that suppress this drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/the-family...

General registration open details 👇 @veronicasvard.bsky.social @killedbyproxy.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @lovedayh.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @sheraresearch.bsky.social @lindaconnolly.bsky.social @proftinamiller.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social

University of Hiroshima, Brunel University, University of Ottawa, Equality Now, The National Family Violence Law Center, and many more to report on the current situations in Colombia, Brazil, Japan, Sri Lanka, Africa, Spain, the UK, the USA, Canada and beyond. More details soon.

This year, we have world-leading expert speakers from the World Health Organization and SVRI - Sexual Violence Research Initiative, Association of Clinical Psychologists UK, Right to Equality,

(including but not limited to unregulated experts, systemic reforms, use of parental alienation theories / alternative approaches and solutions).

Save the date! October 7th 2025:

#Familycourt #HealthJustice #Global #postseparationabuse

Join us for a free online ground-breaking Health Justice Conference focussing on global insights into the family courts and health/human rights impacts for victim survivor women and children

The Invisible Labour of Family Court: Surviving The System That Was Meant To Help The silent burden and drudgery of navigating family court alone, while holding everything else together

We need to talk about the invisible labour of #familycourt. From the court preparation to the managing trauma, just how much of the #familylaw system and broader society is upheld by the invisible labour of women and children? drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/the-invisi...

Little Red Riding Hood's bedtime reading
Enough to make you scream
Well done Nic & Liz @sheraresearch.bsky.social for making waves
No Samba but a dance in Durham Hills for the ink blot witch makers & expert fakers
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Everybody Scream
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