During women’s history month, many women share their stories aiming to connect with and empower other women. But one group whose stories often go untold are women and girls fleeing conflict, seeking asylum and living in refugee camps. Many female asylum seekers and refugees continue to experience a high level …
Settling into a new country can be a challenging experience for many refugees. When you consider the language and cultural barriers, personal trauma, and a combination of racism and stigma associated with the label ‘refugee’, it is easy to understand why this can be so daunting. Fortunately, there are many …
Book review by Katy Cottrell What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway) is a collection of stories that navigate the experiences of womanhood which are typically considered taboo, from periods to menopause and everything in between. The title of the book is apt, within minutes …
Written by Abi Dare – book review by Ben Sturt This is a story about courage and determination in the face of a world that is set up against you. Facing the world is Adunni, a young teenage girl from a village in Nigeria. Growing up, all she had ever …
The pandemic has impacted all levels of society and no one has been left untouched. Many events, work and social activities have moved online. This change was easier for some than others and it has highlighted different social issues such as digital poverty and other divides among communities. Social activism …
A fundamental tenant of a liberal democratic society is the ability to hear all opinions (as long as they don’t incite crime!!) and the best place to do that safely, where one can engage in safe debate, is at Universities…
Sexual Abuse and Violence Awareness (SAVA) Week had powerfully moving events and opened up some really proactive and encouraging discussions around issues of sexual violence in Exeter, as well as across the UK.
To enable communities to raise awareness of sexual violence, Become The Voice has launched a new campaign based in Exeter to empower people to tackle the issues that they feel are important…
By Charlotte Littlewood The Palestinian women’s rights advocate Ali Fanoun Tamimi, expressed the desperate longing for peace in the region. He asserted that Soleimani and organisations like Hamas, which receive support from Iran, bring chaos and instability to Palestine. He also said there was widespread disgust at the actions of …
By Charlotte Littlewood Palestinian clans in the West Bank, which are under the influence of Hizb-Ut-Tahrir (HuT) — the global Islamist group — are calling for the revocation of the Convention to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the shutting down of women’s rights organisations and the banning of feminist education …