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A COMPOSITE IMAGE OF LOTS OF SILHOUETTES OF LOTS OF DRAWINGS OF WOMEN, SHAPED INTO THE HEAD OF WOMAN. tHERE IS THE HASHTAG FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY #IWD2025.

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Posted by The Law School

12 March 2025

#IWD is not just one day, the fight for women’s rights continues every day!

To mark International Women’s Day 2025, our very own Dignity and Democracy Blog is hosting a Special Issue to raise awareness of ongoing challenges to women’s rights, and #AccelerateAction for real change. 

Charlie Bishop highlights the dangers of allowing intimate images to be admitted as evidence in court proceedings. She underlines how our courts may become “sites where coercive control is reproduced rather than dismantled”, with women suffering further systemic violations.  

Zainab Zafar examines the devastating impact India’s occupation of Kashmir has had on women’s dignity, autonomy, and identity. She explores how gender-based violence has been weaponised, with “women’s bodies […] transformed into battlegrounds”, to repress and dehumanise local communities. 

Visit the Blog for further posts discussing women’s rights and human dignity in the coming weeks. If you want contribute, please get in touch: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/humanrightsanddemocracyforumblog/how-to-contribute/

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