WDI Podcast

Feminist Question Time at FILIA with speakers from Brasil, Spain, Australia, USA, and Bahamas

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Eugenia Rodrigues - Brasil - Women and children first! Protecting the rights of women, girls and gender non-conforming children

Amparo Domingo - Spain - SOGI report

Stefanie Bode - Germany - The latest moves to try to regulate 'surrogacy' on a global level.

Kara Dansky - USA - Abortion Rights Under Attack in the U.S.

Anna Kerr - Australia - UN bodies are being extensively manipulated by monied interests.

Rochelle R. Dean - Bahamas - Effective Protection of Women's Rights

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time LIVE with speakers from Brasil, Canada and UK

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Eugenia Rodrigues Brasil, Back to reality: why we cannot afford, as Humanity, the "trans" discourse,

Denise Mckenna UK, on the ‘Woman Is This’ (WIT) survey

Valerie Pelletier, Canada, Survivor of prostitution, rad fem musician

Kellie-Jay Keen (Posie Parker), UK, Extremism?

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Ukraine, Scotland, Canada and England

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Olena Zaitseva, Ukraine

Lawyer, feminist, Nordic Model activist, gender equality expert in several organizations, member of Public Council at MFO "Equal Opportunities" of Ukraine's parliament, member of Yurfem Women's Association of Lawyers, one of the founders of Resistanta (abolitionist feminist group in Ukraine)

Topic - Ukraine's gender policy: risks and achievements, who are protected - women's rights or other groups

Maria Dmytrtiyeva, Ukraine

I am a radical feminist, a left Ukrainian nationalist and a women's rights researcher and expert working with the Ukrainian ministries and local bodies of self-government on promoting women's rights. I have been promoting the Nordic model on prostitution since 2005.

Topic: Challenges to women's rights in Ukraine - postcolonial context

Sally Wainwright, Scotland

Sally is the founder and director of the Audacious Women Festival, which takes place in Edinburgh every February. She is a member of Women Speak Scotland which campaigns for women's sex based rights and is also the joint Scotland country contact for WHRC.

Topic: An update from Scotland

Cherry Smiley, Canada

Cherry Smiley is a feminist, artist, and researcher from the

Nlaka'pamux and Dine' Nations. She is currently a PhD candidate in the

communications studies program at Concordia University in Montreal and

founder and executive director of Women's Studies Online.

Topic: Putting women back in women's studies

Jan Williams, England

Single parent and corporate HR person, I restarted OBJECT and widened its focus. OBJECT works collaboratively to end violent systems that harm, objectify, kill and exploit women: porn, prostitution, sex clubs, surrogacy and transgenderism.

Topic: Setting up gender critical groups in professions

More information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Australia & New Zealand

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Michelle Uriarau - Founding member, ManaWāhineKōrero and Women’s Action Group Sth West Victoria

Caroline Norma - lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, and is a member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia

Virginia Mansel Lees - Feminist, Women’s Rights Activist

More information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Serbia, South Korea, Australia and UK

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Daša Stevović,Serbia, Update from Serbia

Taekyung, South Korea, The power of female universities as a place only for women

Dr Catherine Lynch, Australia, The voice of the child as commodity in adoption and surrogacy

More information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Australia & New Zealand

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Michelle Uriarau - Founding member, ManaWāhineKōrero and Women’s Action Group Sth West Victoria

Caroline Norma - lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, and is a member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia

Virginia Mansel Lees - Feminist, Women’s Rights Activist

More information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from the UK, Wales, France and USA

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Claudine Lee, UK. What is happening in the UK Green Party?

Eleanor Scott, Wales. How are Welsh institutions implementing gender ideology without debate or policy change - behind our backs.

Marian Rutigliano, USA. Men invading women’s spaces since the 70’s.

Marie-Josephe Devillers, France. Report from France.

More information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Vaishnavi Sundar, country contact for WHRC India, in conversation with Raquel Rosario Sánchez.

Raquel is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She specialises in ending male violence against girls and women. Raquel is a columnist for Dominican newspaper El Caribe and a featured writer for Spanish platform Tribuna Feminista. On an international level, and aside from her work as an anti-violence advocate, Raquel campaigns for the protection and/or strengthening of sex-based rights. In recent years, she has campaigned for these protections in legislation and public policy initiatives in the Dominican Republic, the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom. As a researcher, she is currently pursuing a PhD with the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol. Her MA and PhD work focuses on men who pay for sex.

For more information: https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/country-info/india/

Feminist Question Time with focus on Italy

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

1 - Lucia Giansiracusa - ArciLesbica activist and one of the Italian Country Contacts for Italy

Topic: Presentation of our book We, the lesbians. Female preference and criticism of transfeminism. With focus on the concept of "false rights", which is one of the many topics covered in the book.

2 - Roberta Trucco - feminist, Graduated in Literature and Philosophy. She published a novel My name Is Mary Magdalene Marlin editore, 2019. She writes articles on the site www.cheliberta.it and for www.ferraraitalia.it. She has published several articles on the Corriere della Sera blog "La 27ora". She is a passionate reader of child psychoanalysis texts. She did aquarels for the album book "you say Vulva! handle with care"

Topic: Her novel " my name is MAry Magdalene" edited in 2019 by marlin editore to explain the connection between biology and biography, nature and life, to demonstrate how the ancestral wisdom that belongs to indigenous peaple and that has passed through women's bodies for millenia is so important to re-think our idea of human being!

3 - Cristina Gramolini - History and Philosophy teacher in a secondary school, lesbian activist since 1990 and currently national president of ArciLesbica, the association that this year organised a conference in Milan on the inviolable rights of women, entitled "Different, not exclusionary", with 15 speakers.

Topic: Changes in the conception of a law against homotransphobia, under discussion in Italy and not yet approved: from anti-discrimination law to legislation of gender identity theory; verbal violence and physical threats to critics.

More information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Australia, UK, Canada and Mexico

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Anna Kerr, Aus, WHRC CC Australia. Topic: Feminist Legal Clinic and WHRC Australia

Sheila Jeffreys, UK, radical lesbian feminist author and activist. Topic: What is the logic behind the Declaration? Why use the language of women's rights?

Shelley, Canada, Women Matter Canada - Concerned Canadian woman advocating for women and girls. I’m lucky enough to work with women in two outstanding groups - WMC and caWsbar. This is the greatest threat to women’s rights I’ve seen in my longish life - I do not intend to stand passively by while my granddaughters are deprived of those rights. Therefore, here I am. Topic: Policies affecting women and girls, and what we’ve got brewing for the election campaign.

Laura Lecuna, Mexico, WHRC Country Contact Mexico. Topic: Why feminists need to drop the word gender

More information: www.womensdeclaration.com