Purna

@purnasen.bsky.social

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Visiting Prof CWASU, UK Feminista Board, Int Coalition Against Economic Abuse Formerly SpAd ICC, UN, Commonwealth Sect, Amnesty International, LSE, Respect chair Long time policy, rights, anti-vawg person. Veggie; cat/animal and nature devotee

This photo shows a cormorant sitting on a partially submerged tree trunk, airing its open wings
Photo shows a landscape of blue skies with wispy clouds and an expanse of water surrounded by trees on all sides.
Two red poppies fully open, pictured from above.
Five pale pink peonies in a vase. Artificial light above them shows off the pale pink flower heads against dark backlight.
Allium flower - partly hidden behind lilac leaves and with a backdrop of a lilac tree trunk
A pink peony flower
Photo shows to trees getting their new leaves after winter, with a blue sky and bright white clouds behind
Photo of a male kingfisher on a branch. His colourful back is on full view as is his profile (his head is turned leftwards)
Image shows threatening clouds of grey with some white And some tall trees starting to get their leaves on
Photo shows Gisele Pelicot speaking into a mic. She is holding glasses and some papers. She is wearing a dark jacket.
Photo shows open yellow daffodils in a cream jar. In the foreground is a gold structure, which is a candle. In the background are pink and white furnishings.
Photo is of the newly married brides on their wedding day
Picture shows a colourful mug designed by Natalia aged 8
Session poster for a conversation on the Brighton conference 1996, with #Lizkelly #HilaryMcCollum and me At the 2025 #Filia conference this coming weekend
Conor Gearty and Purna Sen holding the report ‘Above the Parapet’ in the UN General Assembly room in New York.
Extract from the article: “at the time the court said her action against the ma. Exceeded the ‘reasonable bounds’ of self defence. Her attacker was given a lighter sentence: six months in prison, also suspended. Ms. Choi could never let go of the injustice. She passed a general equivalency diploma test and enrolled in a correspondence college in her 60s, studying women’s issues and human rights. In 2020, inspired by the #MeToo movement, she filed for a retrial, 56 years after the incident.
Photo shows the sky with rippled clouds, through the ridges of which blue sky can be seen. A few magnificent trees are below.
Zebra in the long grass, looking at the camera
List of names and photos of birds identitied through an app, by their songs: great spotted woodpecker, great tit, blue tit, parakeet, coal tit.
A full face photo of Cynthia Enloe, smiling.
Dark grey clouds provide a threatening backdrop to sunlit trees. The trees are a mix of various greens. The palette is beautiful.
Photo shows the national theatre by the river Thames in london
Photo shows a part of the article text which addresses the points made in the skeet
Woman and Rottweiler against a clear blue sky.
Evening sunlight shines on bare branches and trees against dark, threatening clouds in the background
the photo shows a statement which talks of the lawlessness on the online pornography world and its link to sexual violence. The statement welcomes aspects of the Review's recommendations: age verification, the right to withdraw consent, extension of off-line safeguards to online pornography.
Photo shows a lone tree with leaves alongside other bare trees. Behind is a fiery low sky where the sun is emerging, bounded by cloud and grey sky above it.
Photo shows the frame of a window through which sunlight pours on pink walls, making them appear a terracotta colour, and several plants.
Photo shows tall bare trees in the background with a full Holly tree in the foreground. The sky is a mixture of blue and pale pink somewhat obscured by clouds.
Picture shows a colourful group of pansies They are lilac, purple and yellow
‘Melanie Verwoerd, a former ambassador to Ireland for South Africa, said the focus on Afrikaner rights inverted the history of a people who have benefitted since the 17th century from land their ancestors took from Black people. She said she was speaking “as a white person, and as an Afrikaner“ adding that it was categorically false that white South Africans were being persecuted. ‘
Photo shows Cythia Enloe facing the camera with a broad smile
Denuded trees against a pale blue sky with a crescent moon just peeking through the branches
Promotion poster for the film six triple eight - showing some film information and a photo of several of the women actors
Red and variegated roses in a vase against a black and white domestic background.
The sky at 0840 yesterday - nude tree branches and the moon high in a blue sky.
This photo has blurred and dark images of faces, at the centre of which is a sharp image of a brightly lit Gisele. She is looking up as if she can see the sky and has been released from the courtroom.
Graffiti art of Gislele Pelicot in sunglasses and text in French saying shame must change sides.
There are no images in this photo just text in French then in English. Une avocate de la défense se fait huer. "Pseudo avocate !!", lancent quelques membres du collectif des Amazones d’Avignon. "Pseudo féministe !", rétorque une femme qui semble être une compagne d’accusé. A defense lawyer is booed. "Pseudo lawyer!!", shout some members of the Amazones d'Avignon collective. "Pseudo feminist!", retorts a woman who appears to be a partner of the accused.
Photo shows a high wall, a few denuded trees in front of it and a banner on the wall saying ‘merci Gisele’ ( thank you Gisele) It also has two woman symbols.
Photo shows silhouettes of trees and some buildings with blue skies and while clouds. The clouds shine pink on their undersides.
Photo shows a red whiskered bulbul with a piece of watermelon in its beak and a plate of fruit including a cube of watermelon
This photo shows a very bright rainbow framed on both sides by trees.
The photo is an extract of text from this article: Corporal punishments were also used, Biggs discovered. In 1748, the vice-chancellor paid the town crier 10 shillings to whip “10 unruly women”, Spinning House accounts show. Prison inspectors frequently condemned the jail, which the social historian Henry Mayhew called an “abomination” in 1851, noting the keeper pulled the girls’ hair if they didn’t keep quiet and threw them into solitary confinement. “The prison was notoriously cold and damp, and the food was just bread and sometimes gruel,” Biggs said. In December 1846, the 17-year-old Elizabeth Howe died after spending a night in a Spinning House cell with a broken window and a damp bed.
Photo is a screen shot from the article: ‘ “I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten”..”as people fled the village, some girls jumped into the Nile to commit suicide- I know four of them personally. “ Reports of women killing themselves to avoid rape circulated online as the RSF ambushed town after town in eastern Al Jazira. ‘
The two photos contain graphs showing falls in birth rates between 1970 and 2021 globally and in the EU, OECD, Europe and Central Asia, North America, Eastern and Southern Africa, Western and Central Africa, the Arab world, Eastern Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia. All have fallen but not all by the same extent.
Pictures show denuded trees with pink and blue skies behind. Early morning light.
7” record covers: #HerbieHancock #GeorgeBenson #Linx #RandyCrawford #DavidBowie
This image is a women’s head exploding
Photo shows a large screen on which Trevor Noah’s face is projected. He is sitting on the stage below the screen.
The photo shows a hummingbird as it approaches a flower