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Will the fashion industry ever learn? 

On 24 April 2013, when the Rana Plaza factory collapsed, killing over 1,000 garment workers and injuring countless others, the world rightly reeled in shock. This was the deadliest garment factory disaster in history – the deadliest accidental structural failure in our modern memory...

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What Can You Do To Support Garment Worker Justice?

Here are 3 simple steps you can take to support garment worker justice!...

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Why I am a passionate global feminist? Annie Lennox

As a younger woman in the early '70s, it actually took me several years before I could identify with the term "feminist" as a self-descriptor. When I wrote "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" back in 1985, I still didn't feel I "deserved" to account for myself as a bonafide feminist, as I suspected my mild obsession with make-up and shoes might disqualify me from belonging to the club....

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“Believe in yourself, do something, and be creative.”

Meet Debra Torok, Global Feminist, Circle Member, activist, musician, and professor of social justice education, arts activism, and music. ...

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“I am finding out how to be myself again.” 

The centre is a sanctuary which offers therapeutic counselling, mental health support, community and schools programmes, jobs skills, after-school programme, legal advice and much more....

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Every tiny hand tells a story

Meet Hadeel Arja, a Syrian member of MCJN, who talks about the invaluable mentoring MCJN provided to help her launch her media project 'Tiny Hand' which brings children's stories from war zones to new audiences....

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Your Impact in 2021-2022

Your support and solidarity brought funding, resources, skills, and sanctuary, to some of the most vulnerable and marginalised women in need....

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“I’m getting better at saying no!”  

Meet Ita O’Brien, Circle Member, Global Feminist, and leading proponent of creating safe spaces and boundaries when working with intimate content in film and television...

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Women’s Rights are Human Rights

Women’s rights are too often treated as secondary to human rights with gender-based violence, abuse and discrimination against women rife. ...

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Meet Livia de Paolis, Circle Member & film director

“I am inspired by the women who are not afraid to let their wild side shine bright!”...

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Meet feminist & Circle supporter, Rina Einy

As a feminist I believe that it is vital to address the causes of gender inequality in order to make the world a better place for all life on earth....

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Fast Fashion is a Feminist Issue

It is clear: the way we make clothes is hurting women. And it is hurting their families....