12th March 2020 - #SilencedByJustice demonstration / Mujer 2020
#SILENCEDBYJUSTICE
FiLiA was pleased to join a variety of specialist services outside Westminster Magistrates Court today to protest at how women are #SilencedByJustice. The event organised by Standing Together and Women and Girls Network included speeches from EVAW, Rights of Women, Centre for Women’s Justice and we left the final words to Natalie and those survivors who contact #TheCourtSaid.
We chose Westminster as that’s where Standing Together hold the Specialist Domestic Abuse Court, the best chance of accessing Justice through the criminal system. However this is not available across the country and doesn’t support women using the civil or family justice system. Its not good enough and women deserve better.
Many women are #SilencedByJustice sometimes permanently, last year 111 women lost lives to male violence and so we covered our mouth with black scarves and stood in silence for 111 seconds in sisterhood and solidarity with those women. At the end of the silence we filled the air with noise in their memory. Power to the Women!!
If you are free on Tuesday 17th March 9am you can join EVAW and Centre for Women’s Justice as they protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice at the CPS’s decriminalisation of rape.
By SJ
Photos by Jess Rose and SJ
MUJER 2020
The exhibition “Mujer 2020” co-organised by Escalera Caracol and FiLiA UK opened on 10th March in Buenos Aires. In addition of individual works of art, we exhibited the work of Vivas Nos Queremos México-Argentina-France, a selection of works produced for FiLiA 2019 Feminist Conference, Ni Una Menos Chile and Madres Víctimas de Trata. Also pieces of art donated by feminists from Brazil and Panama. The opening was very well attended and around 300 hundred people visited us between 7 and 10 pm. The exhibition will continue for two extra weeks.
Around 10 pieces of art from France, Argentina, Panamá. Chile and Brazil will travel to London to be exhibited during FiLiA Feminist Conference 2020.
The news picked up details of the exhibition and the article can be read HERE
By Marta
