Give, receive, lend, share: Buy Nothing movement sweeps the world, offers lifeline in a crisis
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2023
By 9pm on April 5, the authorities in Ottawa, capital of Canada, had reports of 600 trees down and a million people plunged into darkness as an intense ice storm lashed the area. Two people died, both hit by falling trees or branches. It was in this freezing darkness that a local “Buy Nothing” group came through for its members.
Mahathir leads new 'Malay movement' to fight in next Malaysian national polls
FRIDAY, AUGUST 05, 2022
Ex-Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has formed a new "Malay movement" led by four small political parties, to contest 120 seats in the next general election.
Spain voted on Tuesday in favour of a proposal to draw up legislation to abolish prostitution, cracking down further on pimping and introducing tougher penalties for men buying sex in a controversial initiative that has split the women's rights movement.
Anti-harassment movement in Japan grows as actors reveal sexual violence
THURSDAY, JUNE 02, 2022
A number of male film directors have recently been accused of sexual violence by women. Actors are vulnerable to violence because of the strict hierarchical relationships in film productions and their unstable employment status.
Spanish parliament approves law qualifying all non-consensual sex as rape
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022
Spain's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a bill that qualifies all non-consensual sex as rape in response to social outrage after the so-called Wolf Pack case gave momentum to the women's rights movement in the country four years ago.
Pro-democracy groups back in focus after projected messages
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020
In the wake of messages projected on Sunday (May 10) on the walls of buildings and sites related to the 2010 red-shirt crackdown, the authorities are now keeping a close eye on all pro-democracy groups.
S. Korean star director sues women's rights group over '#MeToo damages'
THURSDAY, MARCH 07, 2019
A famed South Korean film director who was accused of sexual abuse has filed a lawsuit against a women's rights group over "damages" caused by the #MeToo movement against him, a Seoul court said Thursday.
When four young Ukrainians banded together in 2008 to break the mould for protesting sexism and violence against women, they set off a wave of bare-breasted “sextremism” that eventually spread around the world.