We've rounded up the things that have been making noise in our circles this week.
On Monday women at Yarls Wood immigration detention centre launched a hunger strike against their indefinite detention and imminent charter flight.
Peacekeepers fathered more than 6,000 children in Liberia in the 1990's, despite the power imbalances between themselves and the mothers, in violation of their code of ethics. AP news agency reports attributing a center set up to register and support them.
In China money lenders offering services like Afterpay have been demanding young women send naked selfies as collateral, forcing the financial regulators to intervene.
A dinner lady is taking the British government to court A single mum who relies on universal credit is challenging the government's benefits scheme for being "irrational". This follows reports which have shown that 86% of the Tory government benefits cuts have fallen on women.
Sammy Woodhouse - a victim of child sexual exploitation has called for a change in the law amid claims a man who raped her was offered a role in her son's life.
What's been making noise in your circles this week? Let us know at make.more.noise.manc@gmail.com.
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