FiLiA has spoken to women across the UK with disabilities or caring responsibilities about the Government’s welfare reform proposals.  It is clear from what they have told us that the reforms could lead to significant harm – as we set out in our response to the Department for Work and Pensions’ consultation, Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper. Further detail, as well as our response and Parliamentary briefing can be found here.

FiLiA have written to Ofcom and the Guardian after the Guardian reported on Ofcom's so-called research into the ‘manosphere’ and misogyny. FiLiA have significant concerns about the impact this research could have on women and girls, and are asking Ofcom to recall it.

‘If only women’s experiences were taken as seriously as the unquestioned statements of 38 men.’

It is remarkable that a women such as Florence Canning could disappear without a trace after devoting nearly ten years of her life campaigning for the vote.

There is no memorial to Florence in Brighton, indeed, there is nothing to remember Florence anywhere, apart from her grave in the churchyard of St Paul’s Church, Tupsley, Hereford, and even that was in need of restoration prior to a successful Crowdfunder in spring 2023.

To Saudi Arabia’s allies in London and Washington: stop treating our lives like a line item on a trade deal. From Trump’s Riyadh photo-ops to his latest pledge of ‘no more lectures on how to live,’ the message is clear: authoritarianism is culture, and repression is tradition—as long as the oil keeps flowing. And from Keir Starmer’s silence, it seems Britain agrees. The economy comes first, human rights second. We’re not asking for heroism. We’re asking you to stop hiding behind diplomacy while our rights are crushed. If you can put human rights on the table when it's Russia or Iran, you can do the same with Saudi Arabia. If you can leverage deals for weapons, oil, and football, you can do it for freedom.

The FiLiA Campaigns and Policy team have been working to support women to contribute to the Government’s consultation on disability benefits reform. We wrote to Parliamentarians who are also working to support disabled people to share our work and some of the responses we've had, and invite them to support and work with us to stand up for disabled women and carers who could be devastated by the proposed reforms.