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ACTIVISTS across Britain will take part in a 24-hour fast on International Women’s Day this week in solidarity with Yarl’s Wood hunger strikers.
Migrants’ rights campaigners have united with the friends of those in the detention centre to call the Freedom Fast for Thursday. They are urging “all people of conscience" to join.
Over 100 Yarl's Wood inmates have been on hunger strike since February 21 against the “inhumane” conditions at the centre and the government's practice of indefinite detention. But the Home Office has refused to acknowledge their demands.
MAISSON HASSAN highlights how amid bombed-out cities and collapsing hospitals, women-led initiatives are keeping communities alive
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
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
