IT’S hard to know where to begin, describing the events of last weekend.
The annual conference of feminist organisation FiLiA is an incredible feat of organisation, gathering together women’s rights activists from around the globe.
And as the poet Jenny Lindsay tweeted on Sunday night: “That they assume we centre them in our conversations speaks volumes their arrogance.” It’s safe to say that women brave enough to stand up to Iran’s “morality police” or the actual bloody Taliban were probably unmoved by the tutting of some city councillors.For every well-earned moment of celebration at FiLiA– a policy battle won, a facility launched, a miscarriage of justice overturned – there are countless calls to action.
Expect two topics to rise up the Scottish policy agenda following this year’s FiLiA: surrogacy and sex-buying, both involving crucial questions about demand and supply. One of the stated aims of reform is to dissuade UK couples from seeking surrogacy arrangements overseas, which the Commissions acknowledge “can bring a greater risk of exploitation of women and children”.
Most of these were based on a template from grassroots group Nordic Model Now! – a group that campaigns for the buying of sex to be criminalised, and the selling to be decriminalised.
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