GET MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S PRISONS! KEEP PRISONS SINGLE SEX!
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#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
#GlobalPrisonProtests
#IWD2022
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Some photos from the Global Prison Protests around the world:
singlesexprisons.wixsite.com/sspwa/post/global-prison-protests-images
Press Release:
realforwomen.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/global-prison-protests-media-statement.pdf
Protests are planned in locations across the globe to raise awareness about how vulnerable women and girls are being locked up with men in prisons and jails.
Government departments around the world are implementing harmful policies which allow biological men to pretend they are women in order to be housed with girls & women in jails and prisons, including youth facilities. These policies introduce alarming levels of risk to the female inmate population; risk of serious assault, rape, even death, and the policies are based on unscientific and false claims that human beings can switch our biological sex.
On March 6th – 8th, in the lead up to International Women’s Day, protests will be happening in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Canada and the USA, among other countries. Leading the global call and some of the protests are ex-incarcerated women from Canada, Australia and the USA. In their own words:
"Male prisons are significantly more violent than women's prisons, and that violence transfers to women when men are allowed in our prisons." – Heather Mason
“Removing sex-segregation from penal facilities is blatantly removing the most imperative form of harm prevention for females that exists within jails and prisons.” – Jessica Williams
“You know we’re in trouble when men’s feelings take precedence over women’s physical safety and wellbeing in the prison system.” – Amie Ichikawa
Incarcerated women & girls are among the most vulnerable and oppressed women on the planet, and they cannot escape or identify out of the policies which allow them to be victimised further than anyone could have imagined; by giving way to men “self-identifying” as women and being housed with at-risk girls & women in jails and prisons. Females and males (women/girls and men/boys) are biologically different in ways that cannot change and experts across the world oppose policies which allow male prisoners to be housed as and with women. At-risk male prisoners must be housed within male prisons & jails, and measures to protect their dignity and safety must occur within male penal facilities.
Women across the world are fed up! Enough is enough!
Our aim is to raise awareness about these harmful policies which are placing already vulnerable women and girls in dangerous situations with very dangerous men, and we hope to inspire others to take action to support our important cause. Supporters and sympathisers are asked to contact their local and federal politicians via email, letter, phone or in person meeting, and to let them know that policies and laws which allow men to be housed with women in jails and prisons have absolutely no place in a decent society.
The media is asked to fulfil their important role in society by helping protestors get our message out to the masses. The public deserves to know what is happening to the most vulnerable members of our communities.
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1 Researchers identify 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women - www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170504104342.htm
2 The landscape of sex-differential transcriptome and its consequent selection in human adults - 017-0352-z
3 Fair Play For Women: Prisons - fairplayforwomen.com/campaigns/prisons/
4 Office for National Statistics: Findings from analyses based on the Homicide Index recorded by the Home Office covering different aspects of homicide. 11.Focus on domestic homicides - www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2015/chapter2homicide#focus-on-domestic-homicides ;
U.S. Department of Justice-Office of Justice Programs-Bureau of Justice Statistics-November 2011, NCJ 236018- PATTERNS & TRENDS: Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008: Annual Rates for 2009 and 2010, Alexia Cooper and Erica L. Smith, BJS Statisticians - bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf ;
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME Vienna- GLOBAL STUDY ON HOMICIDE 2013: TRENDS, CONTEXTS, DATA - www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web.pdf
5 International Network for Incarcerated Girls and Women website: theinigw.wixsite.com/inigw
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International Network for Incarcerated Girls and Women
INIGW
theinigw.wixsite.com/inigw
Advocacy Groups
theinigw.wixsite.com/inigw/advocacy-groups
INIGW Members
Australia
Jessica Williams, INIGW Founder
Single Sex Prisons WA
singlesexprisons.wixsite.com/sspwa/post/global-prison-protests
Twitter: twitter.com/SSPWA_
Canada
Heather Mason, INIGW Founding Member
Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar)
www.cawsbar.ca/
Twitter: twitter.com/caWsbar
United States of America
Amie Ichikawa
Woman II Woman inc.
www.womaniiwoman.org/
Twitter: twitter.com/womaniiwomaninc
Ireland
Laoise Uí Aodha de Brún
The Countess Advocacy
thecountess.ie/
Twitter: twitter.com/TheCountessIE
United Kingdom
Women's Declaration International
womensdeclaration.com/en/
Twitter: twitter.com/WDI_UK
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Women's Declaration International (WDI) has been hosting a "Global Prison's Protests Breakout Room" on Saturdays at 17:30pm (UK Time) after the regular Feminist Question Time Webinars:
womensdeclaration.com/en/whrc-live/
Sign the Declaration on Women's Sex-based Rights here and you will be put on the email address for updates from WDI and the WDI Newsletter for your Country:
womensdeclaration.com/en/declaration-womens-sex-based-rights-summary/
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