On Monday, June 9, Northern Ireland once again witnessed a dangerous wave of far-right mobilisation, racist attacks, and organised arson. Following reports of a stabbing incident in Belfast, fascist and racist groups exploited the tense atmosphere and inflamed racist sentiments, took to the streets and launched a series of coordinated attacks against migrants and people of colour. Homes, cars, and shops belonging to migrants, in Belfast, Ballymena, and Larne, were targeted an

The streets and alleyways of Afghanistan's major cities recently witnessed arrests and brutal violence by Taliban armed groups over the “improper hijab”. As a result women and young girls in Herat, which was particularly hard hit, organised a protest that was met with severe Taliban repression. The women marched peacefully, chanting “open the schools to girls” and “enough of Taliban violence against women”, when they were confronted by Taliban military units. They were hit wi

Joint Statement by Women Activists and Human Rights Organisations on the Death of Ghazal Mawlan Ghazal Mowlan, a 20-year-old woman and a member of the Kurdish organisation of Iran, was critically injured on April 14 following drone attacks carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran targeting a refugee camp in Soordash in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Despite her urgent and life-threatening condition, she was transferred between multiple hospitals in Sulaymaniyah and was syst

I call on all women's organisations, human rights groups, and freedom-loving communities to join us alongside Amnesty International and the SWIW Committee (Solidarity With Workers in Iran) to oppose this regressive war on Iran. Let us stand together in solidarity for peace and justice for the people of Iran. Halaleh Taheri, centre. Today we have learned that the largest gas platform in Iran, aside from the hundreds of other oil and electricity fabric in the south of the count