Please, USA, get ahold of yourself. This is not ok in any way. We need *national* policies & laws which emphatically & incontrovertibly PROTECT WOMEN’s & GIRL’s basic rights. We are under siege & need help! @SenateDems @POTUS @WhiteHouse @HouseDemocrats @OVWJustice @UNHumanRights

Mothers in the courtroom are damned if they do, and damned if they don't.

A system that fails to protect our children from abusers - simply bc there is an assumption that children need 2 parents - is a system that is archaic & broken. Children thrive with one protective parent & do not need to love or spend time w an abuser. It’s twisted to assume so.

Atefeh, a mere 36, stood as a valiant voice in Iran’s #WomanLifeFreedom movement. Nightly, she boldly cried “Death to Khamenei” from her balcony. Tragically, the Islamic regime’s agents snatched her away, subjected her to brutal torture, and took her life. Her body was ruthlessly returned to her balcony, staged with a gas hose in a horrific attempt to fabricate a suicide. This heinous act exemplifies the regime’s deep-seated hatred towards women, their freedom, their hair, their dance, and their song. This is the cruel reality under a barbaric regime.

This is the kind of accountability we need. A system where judges can make horrific judgements with no consequence for themselves - will only breed more horrific decisions that devastates children and families. Judicial immunity produces a culture of impunity.

Our keynote speaker @bindelj this morning connecting the dots between prostitution, male violence and misogyny and the false equivalencies being peddled to make it palatable. “If sex work is work, then surely rape is theft?” - Julie Bindel, #ICCC2023

'We implicitly believe that men have the right to a certain amount of violence. Our laws may pretend that we don’t, but the application of these laws demonstrate we do. It is within this environment that the idea of “parental alienation” has thrived.' themovementofmothers.org/202…

We continue our 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥 presentations and discussions tomorrow - with speakers from the fields of advocacy, media, law, academia and survivor communities - helping us increase our understanding of coercive control in all its guises.

This is the phenomenal ICCC 2023 lineup today with presentations on a great range of topics, all connecting the dots and discussing how coercive control shows up in systems large and small, from families, to social and justice systems, to governments and nation states. Join us!

Too often the justice system enables the abuser & fails to protect victims of violence & coercive control. Professor Amy Bonomi and prosecutor David Martin will report on how this happens & their work to reform for stronger accountability and better protections for victims.

ICCC 2023 is starting today, kicking off at 1 pm US Eastern Time with filmmaker @Jen_Senko, Professor and Author @DorothyERoberts and coercive control expert @DrEmmaKatz. See you there ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Always looking at patterns & how factors connect, ICCC 2023 joins the conversation about the dangerous intersection of coercive control, male violence and guns. Senior Advisor for Implementation at @Everytown @RuhiBengali and gun violence prevention advocate @drdoreendm present.

ICCC steering committee member Natalie Blundell of @WeSpokeOrg gives crucial testimony on the state of NY family courts and delivered an 11 point recommendation for reform 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 thank you Natalie.

Journalists @Andreia_O_Nobre and @nerea_novo collects the data and reports on the multiple discreet and intersecting means by which women and girls are oppressed and discriminated against globally. In this session will give us a 2023 status update.

Systemic coercive control takes many forms, and ICCC 2023 will examine how states in different parts of the world act in oppressive ways; author @LetaHong and filmmaker @ronaldvoort bring contrasting perspectives from Holland and China. Don't miss this importan conversation.

At ICCC 2023 we will talk about both micro and macro forms of coercive control and oppression; journalist Desiree Kane @Dbirdy and social worker & researcher Hannah Taylor will present on historical harms and legacy of colonialist oppression from an Indigenous perspective.

Join us for a screening of the powerful short film The Timekeeper followed by a discussion about the costs of coercive control on women and their children, with UK National Domestic Abuse Consultant & Trainer Roz Davidson, Psychotherapist Cathy Press & filmmaker Chris Godwin.

Our conference team are very proud to share that two of the leading voices tackling the grim task of researching, data collecting and reporting on femicide around the world, Shalva Weil and @K_IngalaSmith will present together at ICCC 2023. Don't miss this important conversation.

I’m excited to discuss how the child “welfare” system we rely on to protect children is actually a family policing system that imposes coercive control on parents (including mothers experiencing intimate partner violence) and harms their children—and why we must reimagine safety.

In keeping with our theme this year; Connecting The Dots: The Invisible Costs of Coercive Control, this session with @DorothyERoberts and @DrEmmaKatz joins up the personal with the systemic when talking about how the most vulnerable among us are victimized.