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The growing witch hunt of women speaking up for our sex-based legal rights is an absolute disgrace.

It is now routine for the behaviour and opinions of women to be surveilled and denounced at every turn.

Women are being reported to our employers or the police; we are slurred on social and mainstream media; we are purged from our professional and political organisations.

There is a clear, determined campaign of intimidation/threat being waged against women who dare to speak in public arena; a campaign that has been enabled & encouraged by abject failure of political/civil society to assert & defend our rights of freedom of expression and assembly

This is fostering a climate of authoritarianism which endangers the very basis of our democracy.

Our attackers often make the lofty claim to be ‘on the right side of history’.

We demur.

Our side of history believes in upholding the right of everyone to live their lives free from fear, threat, intimidation and oppression – not be subject to it.

Our side of history believes a society must address the needs and concerns of all its citizens - not just those who have access to the corridors of power.

Our side of history believes that resolution of conflict should come through respectful dialogue – not intimidation and threat.

Women will not be silenced. We will stand up against oppression in all its forms.

We know which side of history we are on.

What about you?