Purna
Visiting Prof CWASU
SpAd ICC, chair Respect, Board Member UK Feminista
Long time policy, rights, anti-vawg person. Veggie; cat/animal and nature devotee
- #Slovakia PM's national security adviser resigns over #Epstein links Messages show #MiroslavLajčák 's wish for a woman in Epstein’s orbit E asked for t-shirts before giving him access -additionly offering a woman (#girl ?)’s sisters The #BrotherhoodOfPowerfulMen reaches far&has common activities.
- Wow! Washington Post low point
- A modicum of accountability 👍🏼 This must set a precedent. None of anything that is happening now would be possible without the #survivors speaking They have made the change ❤️🙏🏽 #CSA #childAbuse #sexTrafficking Peter #Mandelson to quit Lords over #Epstein emails www.thetimes.com/article/69d4...
- Current #international #political upheavals, including challenges to #multi-lateralism, put the #UN in crisis: its effectiveness is challenged & huge $ cuts have prompted layoffs & restructuring. A new #SG is to be selected in #2026. With this mess to address, a #woman might finally get the job! 😂
- First #daffodils of #2026 So uplifting. 💛
- I have today deleted the other app. Much relieved.
- There’s so much flux in the world right now. And some reasons for hope 🙏🏽 #Iran
- As #USA follows through on the #disengagement w #multi-laterialism that it signalled, the challenge now is to construct a different (part-)world order. What is that settlement? Where is the imagination and creativity to envision and craft it? #internationalPolitics #UN apnews.com/article/unit...
- 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 And some things are just irresistible - they simply have to be done! 😂💕 #wearTheTrousers #trousers #school
- With many 🙏🏽 to @rostaylor.bsky.social for this discussion and for giving space to #school activism in the story of change for #women re #trousers It’s a great episode 👍🏼 Women’s appearance in the world is still a battlefield..and still we move forward 🎉 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
- On my daughter’s wedding day, when one bride is to wear a jumpsuit, it’s fab to have this podcast out on trousers. 🙏🏽@rostaylor.bsky.social for having. My #WoodhouseSchool trousers episode was both evidence of constraints on girls & affirmation of solidarity amongst school kids. 💕
- 2 weeks to go until Christmas and you can still buy gifts /support @UK-feminista: “These beautiful bags, mugs, tea towels &posters were designed by Natalia (8yo) & Eva (15yo) to celebrate 15 years of #UKFeminista! Power change with your gifts this festive season🎄 Shop 👉 uk-feminista.teemill.com “
- It’s so important that we know where we have come from, how we got here. None of us is starting from scratch. Grateful for the opportunity to have been involved in this effort to make connections 🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️
- “#Sheinbaum, #Mexico’s first female #president, made ending violence against women a cornerstone of her campaign, but only a year after being elected, she was groped by a stranger in public.” #vawg #sexualHaraasment #MeToo #WomenInPolitics #TakeBackTheStreets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
- There are some absolute gems in @ZohranKMamdani’s speech 💎 No matter that there will be many obstacles (put) in his way, his alliances, loyalties & priorities are spot on. He has brought hope to many #NewYork ers, & those beyond, who need urgent change #NYC www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
- From #JessAssato over at the other place: Great to see the Government introduce a ban on strangulation content in pornography. We first made this argument back in the Online Safety Bill and @BertinGabby made it one of her Review’s recommendations. Huge thanks to @APPG_CSE @UK_Feminista @barnardos
- 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 #Giuffre ❣️❣️❣️💔💔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
- I was Special Advisor to #ICC #Prosecutor This case, prolonged investigation &consequent harms are extremely disturbing. The impact on the 2 directly concerned& all staff is huge. Much work still to do. Inside alleged sexual misconduct of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan www.thetimes.com/article/3d90...
- It’s taken many years, the persistence of #victims #survivors, the passing of (at least one of) them & Some supportive journalists & turning public opinion -> a degree of censure is in place. Significant that this is not the outcome of legal process #Andrew #Epstein www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
- Why would we expect London to be exempt from #grooming? It would make no sense #CSE #childSexualAbuse #sexualAbuse #Rape Sadiq Khan accused of covering up #London grooming gangs scandal www.thetimes.com/article/f9cc...
- #GenZ doing their thing again This time in #Madagascar Madagascar Military Seizes Power, Then Nation Explodes in Joy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...
- Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term Man who appealed #Pelicot #rape conviction handed longer jail term www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Thanks to @filiacharity.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on and discuss the 1996 Brighton conference on #violence #abuse and #womens #citizenship this weekend I’ll be with @proflizkelly @hillarymcc7 on Saturday Tx here: Filia.org.uk/tickets
- Such sad news - Jane Goodall make such a huge difference in this world, for our collective good. 💔 🙏🏽
- In #Liverpool today for fringe event on #Fabian pamphlet today at 1700 We’re talking #HumanRights & #VAWG It’s outside the secure zone - which means local #vawg peeps can join us. Please do! Cc #CiaraBergman #RapeCrisis #SaraHyde #SarahRussellMP #FabianWomensNetwork fabians.org.uk/only-halfway/
- Ex-Wall Street Star Accused of Abusing Women in Penthouse Sex ‘Dungeon’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...
- “..10,000 Nepali youth, including ..in the diaspora, voted for an interim prime minister not through physical or electoral ballots, but through an online poll on..a platform primarily used by gamers.” #SriLanka #Nepal #Bangladesh #GenZ is doing politics in new ways #Asia aje.io/vts5oo
- Calling #UK #VAWG peeps You may have spoken to Reem @unsrvaw.bsky.social in 2024 or you may have missed her but you can hear her speak about her visit & report at this #CWASU event on 25/9. She will be in discussion w' @proflizkelly.bsky.social & me. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...
- It’s crucial we remember what’s going on in #Afghansistant and that we don’t give up the fight, abandon the women there Cc @profkarimabennoune.bsky.social Conference on international legal possibilities this Thursday 18 September 👇🏽
- On September 18, 2025 we will host a conference, organized by Prof @profkarimabennoune.bsky.social, on ending gender apartheid in Afghanistan and beyond. “Countering Gender Apartheid with International Law: A Strategic Convening” Read more and register: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/michiga...
- Shattered by news of #ConorGearty’s passing. I was his deputy at #LSE #IPA where principled risk taking proved productive & fun. He became a dear friend. Conor offered opportunities; it was great to reciprocate: we launched a report at the #UN (his 1st visit to #UNGA room) I will miss him deeply 💔
- 📣📣📣 Mark your diaries: 25 September 1700 BST Reem AlSalem will be discussing her #UK report on #VAWG with me & Liz Kelly Join us to hear about the report & to discuss what needs to doing now Registration link coming next week #unsrvaw @unsrvaw.bsky.social @profLizKelly.bsky.social #cwasu
- #Korea n #women who were #prostituted have won a case against their own government & now have the US military in their sights. They were recruited,contained, tested, forced to take penicillin + In a First, Korean Women Target U.S. Military in Suit Over Prostitution www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/w...
- What a woman is #ChoiMal-ja 🙏🏽 💖 She was wronged decades ago & had to wait 61 yrs for justice - won through her #determination, the impact of #MeToo & study #SouthKorea #Woman Is #Absolved Decades After Biting Attacker’s Tongue During Attempted #Rape www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...
- The #UK Deputy Prime Minister has conveyed the government’s assessment that there is no #genocide #Gaza The Court with the jurisdiction to make that determination considers it to be plausible. #ICJ Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, government concludes www.thetimes.com/article/06e8...
- 💬 "there’s an urgent need for guidance & resources tailored to Alternative Provision settings to address sexism and sexual harassment" 📒 That's why we've launched 'Understanding Sexual Harassment' for AP settings 👉 Director Nina Humphries explains: rb.gy/eprlbz 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @ukfeminista.bsky.social
- This is so beautiful 😍
- #UN experts call for emergency #UNGA meeting as genocide and man-made famine unfold in #Gaza, urging action under the Uniting for #Peace resolution to hold Israel accountable: "The General Assembly must act without delay to stop the machinery of death" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
- ‘I felt like the walls were closing in. All I could see was Fred West’s face’: how one woman escaped Britain’s worst serial killers - The Guardian A harrowing account of #sexualAbuse, intimidation fear and, eventually, survival, growth. How easily horrors are overlooked. 🙏🏽 #KathleenRichards
- I worked as Special Advisor to the Prosecutor The case that opened the allegations against him in his #ICC role is very distressing. Now another woman has come forward. Such bravery. #MeToo www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug...
- He raped as a man. He has been found guilty. He now identifies as a woman. He is dangerous. Met Police volunteer guilty of #raping woman and girl www.thetimes.com/article/c311...
