The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously this evening to pass a bill that makes free period products available to anyone who needs them, becoming the first country to do so, after calls to
#endperiodpoverty
.
The heartbreaking image of Amal Hussain experiencing unspeakable suffering from malnutrition put a face and a name to the often overlooked humanitarian cost of years of civil war in Yemen. Now she is gone.
We’ve just left a vaccine center in Cardiff where some of the first people in the UK to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine (outside of trials) have been getting their shots this morning.
The number of female solo travelers has skyrocketed, but amid Instagram-worthy escapades are tales of violence, raising questions about how the world is greeting women who travel alone.
She has not been summoned back to prison and her husband, Richard, said she was calm upon hearing the verdict. But he said it was clear she was being used, yet again, as a political tool.
"It's clearly a game of cat and mouse," he said.
At the Russian embassy in London, chalk messages denouncing Putin, the war, and government action fill the length of the wall. Red paint has been thrown on the embassy window. Barbed fencing tied with blue and yellow balloons.
The reclaim the streets vigil tonight has been cancelled, but a makeshift memorial to Sarah Everard in Clapham Common -- and messages of solidarity from all women who have experienced harassment and violence -- are growing.
People are threading their bouquets through the Clapham Common bandstand and already it is making the most beautiful monument to Sarah Everard and to all who knew and loved her.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband just confirmed that she has been given an additional one year prison sentence and one-year ban on leaving country. Her lawyer has 20 days to appeal the ruling.
For the first time, Pecherska Lavra in Kyiv is hosting a Ukrainian Orthodox service on Christmas. Carols rang out in the golden hall, the Ukrainian language echoing out through the church.
The pandemic is a challenge not only for public health but also for messaging. Here’s how some world leaders have talked to their citizens about the outbreak.
Legal abortions began in Ireland this week with solidarity and some small protests. But right groups say more protections are needed for women and healthcare providers
I chatted with some of the very first people set to receive the vaccine in the UK today, who ahead of the shot described feeling excitement, pride and -- for many -- a sense of relief:
As a woman who regularly travels alone, vast majority of my experiences have been positive and enriching. But there is no doubt women face unique risks in all of public spaces, and there is no comprehensive global data collected on violence against female travelers.
“He was a Muslim-born Kiwi who was full of energy, love and happiness,” wrote the family of Mucad Ibrahim, a 3-year-old killed in the New Zealand attack. These are the stories of the 50 victims who spanned generations and nationalities.
“Italy’s piecemeal attempts to cut it off — isolating towns first, then regions, then shutting down the country in an intentionally porous lockdown — always lagged behind the virus’s lethal trajectory.” Hope this is being read far and wide.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP tulip siddiq now confirming what her family expected today -- her ankle tag has been removed but still no sign of when she will be able to return to London -- and she is being summoned to court again.
I have been in touch with Nazanin‘s family. Some news:
1) Thankfully her ankle tag has been removed. Her first trip will be to see her grandmother.
2) Less positive - she has been summoned once again to court next Sunday.
#FreeNazanin
Nearly 4 years after the devastating Grenfell Tower fire, a cladding crisis is gripping the U.K. Scores of people are still living in buildings clad in flammable materials, some have to pay for costly nightly fire watches or remediation ...
Anti racism rally underway on O’Connell Street in Dublin ahead of a planned far right rally planned for later today nearby. Much larger crowd chanting refugees “are welcome here” as others wave Irish flags from the sidewalk in front of the GPO
US has filed assurances in Assange extradition case, which were requested by a British court before it makes a final decision on his ability to appeal. Next step is a hearing on May 20. More on what those assurances are all about in our earlier story here:
Meghan & Harry’s Archewell foundation among 1st donors to new charity initiative for diversity and inclusion in UK media.
@marcusryder
one of the trustees, spoke to me earlier this week about the issues the interview shone a light on
We are delighted to announce that we have just registered a sister charity, The PressPad Charitable Foundation, and are thrilled that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their Archewell Foundation will be among our first donors. (1/4)
#DiversityandInclusion
#archewellfoundation
The violent confrontations that rattled the English city of Leicester last month have prompted soul searching in an area long heralded as a success story of diversity and integration among its large Indian diaspora. Thanks to all who spoke for this story.
Unmarried couples are asking E.U. to ensure they can be reunited amid coronavirus restrictions: “The whole E.U. is trying to reopen for tourism, for economic reasons, but they are also completely disregarding these couples," one person told me.
When we met Daniil last week, he used his small crutches, to gesture toward the stains on the cement in entryway to his apartment building and told us that it was his and his mother’s blood. They were hit by cluster munitions this spring,
Sarah Everard's death set off a movement, but for her friends the grief is personal. For many, her transformation into a national symbol has complicated their own raw feelings of grief.
Nearly 4 years after Grenfell, hundreds of thousands of people are living in apartments with fire safety failures, but people with disabilities have even greater concerns.
"We’ve been an afterthought,” one activist told me.
An immigration court in London has upheld the decision by the British government to strip citizenship from Shamima Begum, who went to Syria to join the Islamic State in 2015. Our latest on the case
For decades, the Ukrainian Social Club has been at the heart of the expat community in London. Now, its become a makeshift logistics hub and donation center filled with people scrambling to send aid home
a harrowing piece of reporting from
@VALERIEinNYT
.
“If you do not think about it all, you can live,” Viktoriya said in an interview in the village on a recent rainy day. “But it is certainly not forgotten.”
last week, we visited Donegal to report on how even the smallest communities in Ireland -- some little more than a pub and a post office at a crossroads -- are playing host to Ukrainian refugees with the always wonderful
@pdossantos
“People were just living their normal lives, and suddenly this happened and we are all trying to help,” Kamilia Gorniak told me, speaking w/ pride at seeing so many of her neighbors and friends step up with aid. “I don’t know anyone who is not helping.”
In central Kyiv. Investigators inspected the body of a woman in a black body bag, half unzipped. One held her thin wrist, covered in dirt and debris as it protruded from the bag for a moment. Then they folded her arms across her body.
On Monday,
@MeAndVan
tweeted that she was looking for the man who gave her a bike when she was a 5-year-old refugee. A day later, they were reunited, thanks to a little help from someone who spotted her post. The internet isn't always a horrible place
“This is a real problem,” said Soma Sara, the 22-year-old Londoner who founded Everyone’s Invited, a platform where young women and girls have sparking a national conversation about the sexual violence they face. “Rape culture is real.”
Twice a day, the tide pulls the flowing edges of the Thames back revealing centuries of forgotten London life.
This is when the mudlarks come out.
Thanks to
@LondonMudlark
for the peek into your world.
For Ukrainian children fighting cancer & their families, their personal crisis has converge with a national one in a country gripped by war. We spoke with some of these families, who opened up their lives to us at their most difficult moments.
13 members of Mariupol drama theater's company have reconvened in the west of Ukraine for a new performance. Collectively, they survived weeks of siege, the devastating attack on their home theatre, Russian filtration camps & displacement from their homes.
As these stories — and the fears surrounding them — have spread, young women have called for a boycott of clubs. My latest with
@BellaKwai
from Nottingham and Durham.
“There are those moments where it’s like love at first sight, but with a friend,” one friend said of Sarah. "You meet a fellow woman and go, ‘I love you, and I don’t know you yet properly, but I know that I’m going to love you. And it was one of those things.”
“They often ask when will the war end, when will they return to school?” said one a Ukrainian teacher who has been running classes remotely after fleeing her hometown. “I always smile and say that it will be soon — we have to be patient a little longer.”
The Inuit midwives of Inukjuak, in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, fought to bring birth back to their community. Years on, the program is a symbol of hope our dispatch, w/ beautiful photos from
@photobracken
who visited this summer.
anti immigration protesters now marching from parnell square to o’connell street chanting “Leo leo leo, out out out” against the taoiseach. Passersby are looking on with unease as they are set to collide with an anti-racism rally. Lots of police keeping the groups apart
From Buckingham Palace: "The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow." Our live updates here:
“The fish pond is getting smaller,” said Agnieszka Bleka, who recruits mostly European workers in the city of Preston. “And people are picking and choosing the jobs, or leaving as well, going to their home countries.”
Gabriella Zaghari-Ratcliffe was a toddler when she and her mother, Nazanin, were stopped at the airport in Tehran. Now she’s 5, and back in the uK. with her father for the first time since 2016.
Horrifying images from Kramatorsk railway station this morning, where a strike on an area being actively used for civilian evacuations left "dozens" dead the governor said. Here is what we know so far
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sentence in Iran ends today, after five years. But there is no sign yet of her release.
“It's perpetual ambiguity,” her husband told me earlier this week.
One of those was Yulia, right, who said she felt helpless and had to come to the protest to show her support for Ukraine. Her mother called her this morning to tell her a village near her home had been targeted during the invasion.
This is what a barrister looks like:
@EssexBarrister
is working to change perceptions about who belongs in England's legal establishment from the inside.
When glasses were raised and meals shared outside
@TheCarltonTav
this week, the patrons were toasting a pub that was simultaneously brand-new & 100 years old, celebrating the reclamation of a piece of their community.