FiLiA

Hilla Kerner is a feminist who works with Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter, the longest standing rape crisis centre in Canada. She joins Sadia Hameed in a conversation about Cindy Gladue, a m...

30 Apr 202038min

Sarah and Alice discuss the current Government consultation on pre-charge bail, and why a change in police practice is needed to protect victims-survivors of rape, domestic abuse and stalking. Sarah L...

16 Apr 202035min

Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She became Spokeswoman for FiLiA on 25 November 2019, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence A...

14 Apr 20201h 8min

Simi Kamal is head of grants at the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. She is a geographer, social development specialist, and women’s rights advocate with over 30 years’ experience in water sector, p...

11 Apr 202043min

Recording from the Violence Against Lesbians Panel at the FiLiA Conference in 2019. Featuring: Susan Hawthorne - Unnoticed, Unrecorded, Unremembered: Inscribing the Torture of Lesbians Hilary McCol...

9 Apr 20201h 13min

Recording from the Sunday Closing Session of the FiLiA 2019 Conference. Featuring a number of women speaking, including: Sharena Lee Satti, author and passionate poet from Bradford, who speaks openly ...

5 Apr 20201h 32min

"Gay conversion is still thriving in the 21st century. The conversion therapy of today is the prescription of cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, and hysterectomies as treatment for girls and women who ...

3 Apr 202048min

In the UK, as the coronavirus pandemic rages, we are seeing the effects of years of over-medicalisation of birth. The NHS has decided that the best use of its midwives would be to close all midwifery-...

1 Apr 202029min