Activism

Does Legalizing Prostitution Help or Hurt Women?

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Legalisation and decriminalisation are two different things. Legalisation means instead of removing laws criminalizing women, other laws and policies are introduced. Women who can’t meet the new laws then become criminalised again. The abuse that is currently happening continues. The most affected are the women who needs the most protecting.Tunisia is an example of this. It also allows police to keep using current laws to target women as Amnesty found in countries that have the nordic or similar models.

Activism

The X-ile Project Helps Ireland to “Face the 8th”

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The X-ile Project launched on December 10, 2015, with their first round of 11 photographs. They hope that their project will call people’s attention to what they say is an “identification problem between the Irish government and some factions of Irish society, and women who travel for access to abortion services.”

Arts & Culture

Spray Paint Cans and Politics: Using graffiti to talk about feminism and revolution in the Arab world

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Egyptian artist, Khadiga El-Ghawas started sketching and doing tags on street corners in 2010...Then on January 25, 2011, everything changed as Egyptians took to the streets to call for the removal of then-President Hosni Mubarak...It was also in 2011 that she connected with Women on Walls and began to use her art to actively engage with political discourses and discourses on women.

Abortion

March for Choice 2015

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We marched, not only to call for a repeal of the 8th amendment by our government, but to let every single Irish woman who has had, or who will have an abortion know that they are NOT a criminal, that they are NOT alone, and that thousands of people, all over the country support them and their decision.

Abortion

“Send In the Drones”: Sending the Abortion Drone to Ireland

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On September 26th, the fourth annual March for Choice will take to the streets of Dublin, Ireland as part of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. As the last March for Choice before the next general election in Ireland, many are also viewing the march as an opportunity to once again stress to politicians the importance of repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution—an amendment which “acknowledges the right to life of the unborn,” and turns abortion into a criminal act. Will a delivery by the Abortion Drone help to tip the scales of justice in favor of the Irish pro-choice lobby? Or will they need something more?

Op-Ed

The Lighthouse

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Democracy means not only that the representatives are freely elected, but also that the rule of law is applied equally to everyone.