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IRON gates to a public park in Shipley were festooned with placards, letters, poems, suffragette ribbons and flowers as part of the weekend’s nationwide Reclaim These Streets actions.
They carried messages which included: “I’m tired of ignoring harassment,” “It’s a men’s issue,” “Teach our girls to stand tall — and teach our boys to respect them.”
Another said: “For all the women who never got to bloom.”
The civilian toll climbs past 1,000 as women, children and families are struck in their homes, schools and public spaces – a stark illustration of the human cost of war. AZAR SEPEHR emphasises that the future of Iran is solely determinable by the people of that country and them alone
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference