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Author and activist Rivera Sun spoke to our editor Leila Hawkins about the power of non-violent resistance, from the lun...
21/11/2025

Author and activist Rivera Sun spoke to our editor Leila Hawkins about the power of non-violent resistance, from the lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement to today’s pushback against the aggressive deportation raids targeting immigrant communities in the US.

👉 Scroll through for excerpts of the interview.

🔗 Read the full article via the link in our bio.

15/11/2025

Throwback to when we were "book of the month" at IE University's feminist library!

Guidance counsellor Yone Zubiaurre recommended us for the university's Purple Corner, a library dedicated to gender equality.

👀 Check out what she had to say about us.

12/11/2025

Protests are underway at COP30 to call for an end to the deforestation of the Amazon and oil and gas exploration projects that threaten the way of life Indigenous communities.

Among these is the ‘Answer Caravan’ flotilla, travelling along the main land and river export corridor of the soy industry, gathering food donated by small-scale farmers to supply the ‘People’s Summit’ at COP30.

Thousands are expected to take part in the summit, aiming to ensure grassroots groups and Indigenous peoples are a part of COP30 rather than corporations alone.

Almost 300 banks helped channel $138 billion to companies expanding oil operations in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2022 and 2024, according to a report co-published by Amazon Watch and environmental non-profits based in Germany, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Santander, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are the top three banks involved.

The study highlights that oil and gas blocks overlap with 1,647 Indigenous territories, including lands where Indigenous peoples live in voluntary isolation.

“Community leaders are threatened, attacked and sometimes even killed for defending their land against oil and gas extraction,” it notes. “Frequent oil spills from pipelines and refineries poison rivers and streams, endangering downstream communities, small-scale fishers and municipal water supplies.

“Air pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels causes more than 320,000 premature deaths in Latin America each year and is responsible for a wide range of illnesses, especially in children under 5, pregnant women and the elderly.”

A UN report published in April this year stated that Indigenous peoples safeguard 80% of the planet's remaining biodiversity, yet receive less than 1% of international climate funding.

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Tatiana Pardo Ibarra
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💡 Can online speech trigger real-world violence — even when it’s not hate speech?A study published in the scientific jou...
09/11/2025

💡 Can online speech trigger real-world violence — even when it’s not hate speech?

A study published in the scientific journal PNAS Nexus explores the relationship between online speech and real-world violence in India.

The data:

🔹 Analysed 22.4 million posts from Koo, an Indian social media network popular among India’s Hindu nationalists, between 2020 and 2022.

🔹 This was combined with records of attacks on religious minorities for the same period.

🔹 It showed that the use of certain hashtags correlated with an increase in attacks on Muslims and Christians, even if these are not explicitly classified as hate speech.

🔹 During internet outages these links disappeared, suggesting a direct connection between online speech and offline harm.

One example was the frequency of the use of "Jai Shri Ram" on Koo, which matched a rise in attacks against religious minorities in the 10 states of India’s Hindi Belt.

“Jai Shri Ram,” meaning “Glory to Lord Ram,” is a traditional Hindu expression of faith. The study explains that the phrase became politicised after a 1992 incident in which Hindu activists demolished a mosque at a disputed religious site. It has since been adopted as a slogan by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The study's authors conclude that the debate on what kinds of online speech influence offline harm must be broadened, as traditional moderation tools can’t capture posts that don’t break content rules, but still shape behaviour in divided societies.

❓ How can platforms and policymakers address posts that fuel division, without suppressing genuine cultural or religious expression?

Coverage of femicides and violence against women often reinforces stereotyping and victim-blaming, instead of questionin...
28/10/2025

Coverage of femicides and violence against women often reinforces stereotyping and victim-blaming, instead of questioning the root causes of the crimes.

Responsible reporting means:

☑️ Following the Do No Harm principle: considering how your reporting and the published article will impact survivors, women at risk, and grieving families, taking care not to cause further trauma.

☑️ Checking for and minimising bias in your reporting, ensuring you’re not repeating stereotypes.

The Latvian government is considering withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, the first legally binding international ...
22/10/2025

The Latvian government is considering withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, the first legally binding international treaty aimed at preventing violence against women.

Latvia ratified the convention in 2023, but lawmakers have now initiated a process that could result in its withdrawal. The treaty defines and condemns various forms of gender-based violence including stalking, sexual harassment, sexual and physical abuse by intimate partners, psychological violence, forced marriage, and forced sterilisation, recognising that it is the obligation of governments to address these.

In 2021 Turkey became the first country to withdraw from the treaty, arguing that it undermines "family values" and "normalises homosexuality."

Women’s rights activists in Latvia have protested the potential withdrawal, demonstrating outside parliament.



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Slide 2: Linda Liepiņa, leader of Latvia First by Saeima, CC BY-SA 2.0

Slide 4: Protest against withdrawal from Istanbul Convention in Turkey by Hilmi Hacaloğlu, public domain

The Church of England has announced that Sarah Mullally will become the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the very first ti...
16/10/2025

The Church of England has announced that Sarah Mullally will become the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the very first time the role goes to a woman in its centuries-long history.

The role of is still considered to be of great significance in the UK, serving as a spiritual leader for the Church of England. And while women have been able to become bishops since 2014, this appointment marks the first time a woman has risen to its highest office.

One particular piece of media coverage in Sky News caught our attention, under the headline: “Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first.”

The original standfirst read:

“The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.”

This is problematic because there is no reason for her marriage to figure so prominently in the article. Eamonn Mullally is a now-retired IT and Enterprise Architect. He may well have had an impressive career, but we fail to see the relevance to this story.

Thankfully, the standfirst was swiftly amended to say:

“Sarah Mullally, the 63-year-old archbishop-designate, is originally from Woking in Surrey, and was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.”

But the headline remains unchanged, and is also problematic. We agree that it’s still big news that the role has been given to a woman for the first time, however in 2025, it shouldn’t be. We will only move closer to normalising gender equality in leadership when the language we use reflects that.

Some better alternatives would be:

✔️ Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
✔️ Sarah Mullally is first woman to be appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury

After all, if the point is that she is the first woman to be “named” to the role, why not lead with her name?

For World Mental Health Day, we're sharing an article from our archive on caring for yourself during turbulent times. Au...
10/10/2025

For World Mental Health Day, we're sharing an article from our archive on caring for yourself during turbulent times.

Author Leila Hawkins reminds us to:

✨ Be understanding of where our negative emotions come from, instead of trying to fix them.
✨ Prioritise self-care as much as caring for other people.
✨ Avoid letting the boundaries between home and work get blurred — that way lies burnout.
✨ And finally, turn off the news — and talk to people you love instead.

Read more via the link in our bio.

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Cover: How to Mind Map by zipckr, CC BY 2.0

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08/10/2025

"Neurodiversity is a superpower."

The language used by the US government to warn against the use of Tylenol by pregnant women is deeply problematic, because it frames autism as an epidemic that needs eradicating.

Dr Katherine Hall says that “To present this idea that autism is something that we need to cure is absolutely the wrong message.”

👀 Watch a snippet of the interview here or read the full article by heading to the links in our bio.

BBC's Panorama has revealed secret filming of London Metropolitan police officers dismissing domestic violence reports a...
08/10/2025

BBC's Panorama has revealed secret filming of London Metropolitan police officers dismissing domestic violence reports and joking about r**e.

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley called their behaviour “totally unacceptable and contrary to the values and standards of the force.” Back in 2023, at a London Assembly meeting he admitted that 2-3 police officers were appearing in court each week for “dishonesty, violence against women and girls, domestic abuse and sexual offences.”

Head to the link in our bio for our coverage of women's safety and UK policing.

03/10/2025

The recent claim that taking paracetamol during pregnancy increases the risk of autism in children has been widely debunked by scientists and healthcare professionals worldwide.

We spoke to Dr Katherine Hall, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Coventry University (UK), to unpack the truth behind this claim, and the impact this announcement has had on mothers and neurodiverse individuals.

We also spoke to her about what journalists can do to avoid spreading misinformation.

Hit play for a snippet of the interview ▶️

In this op-ed written for World News Day, Luba Kassova and Richard Addy argue that the widely repeated claim that global...
28/09/2025

In this op-ed written for World News Day, Luba Kassova and Richard Addy argue that the widely repeated claim that global trust in news is in decline is misleading, and overly shaped by the US experience.

To counter this claim, Kassova and Addy analysed seven leading surveys covering news trends, finding that:

🔹Trust in US media has collapsed since the 1970s. But globally, trends are far less negative.

🔹According to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, average media trust hit 52% across 28 countries in 2025, Edelman’s highest on record.

🔹Nordic countries have some of the highest levels of trust in media, particularly in Finland and Denmark.

🔹In Africa, Nigeria and Kenya report high trust, driven by relatively independent private media and younger audiences cross-checking news sources.

They conclude that, “Undoubtedly there is much that news media can do better to grow public trust, but the blanket claim that global trust in news is in decline is erroneous and plays into authoritarians’ plans to destroy trust in independent media.

"To protect truth and democracy we must resist regurgitating unduly negative interpretations and just turn to the facts."


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Co-founded by Alia Chebbab and Leila Hawkins, NADJA is an innovative digital news platform that reports the world through the eyes of women. We aim to redefine news from women’s perspectives and focus on women who are changing the world. Launched in 2016, NADJA gives a fresh and unique approach to news rather than competing with other outlets on breaking news.

We believe women play an active role in shaping our world and our future, and deserve to have their voices heard.

Did you know that women make up only 24% of the news, exactly as they did in 2010? Only 19% of online news stories focus specifically on women, and as little as 4% of the stories clearly challenge stereotypes. The media is a powerful tool in influencing how we make sense of the world, and often how we act. But they lack the richness of women’s perspectives and depict an incomplete and discordant reality.

By shining a light on the women who made and are making a difference every day we aspire to contribute to a greater and fairer representation of women in the media.