
POSTED BY Featured ON Mar 12, 2018
INNorthern Ireland has a problem with rape culture
This kind of behaviour has real world consequences. By WRDA Communications Belfast has a problem with Rape Culture. Eating lunch, buying clothes or even just walking down the street, women in this city are met with a barrage of misogynistic material. Violence against women is made light of and women’s bodies are used as room dressing. We have a high rate of violence against women and the way women are presented in pop culture is part of the problem. In February 2018 the David James Kerr...

POSTED BY Featured ON Mar 7, 2018
INRebel Women are at the National Portrait Gallery
‘…As she moved on, he heard glass shatter…’ A portrait in London’s National Portrait Gallery that was slashed with a butcher’s cleaver by a suffragette has been put back on display in the gallery for the first time in over twenty years. And a photograph showing the damage has been included in a complementary display devoted to the suffrage movement that inspired the attack in July 1914. The portrait of one of the National Portrait Gallery’s founders, Thomas...

POSTED BY Featured ON Aug 7, 2017
INNuclear bomb ban: time to sign the treaty
History was made in 2017 when nuclear weapons were banned under international law. On 7 July 122 governments adopted a new treaty at the United Nations making the possession of these horrific weapons of mass destruction illegal, as were other related activities such as testing, using, developing, or assisting with nuclear weapons – which includes among other things financing or planning to use such weapons. The treaty also includes provisions for assisting victims of nuclear weapons use...
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