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Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and girls. It’s practised in at least 25 African countries, as well as parts of the Middle East and Asia and among immigrant populations globally.
FGM is prevalent in (…)
It’s been almost a week since Julian Assange had his asylum revoked by the Ecuadorian government. As a result, he was arrested by the Metropolitan police for his failure to appear in court in June 2012 regarding allegations made by two Swedish women in which they accused him of sexual (…)
To understand the political relationship between individual violation and collective response, we need to explore the theoretical pathways that connect particular harms to universal conditions.
An urgent, freely downloadable ebook, Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo brings (…)
What is at stake in Catherine Deneuve’s recent letter in Le Monde attacking the feminist movement? It’s a question of where you draw the line.
After the 10th or so person sent me the stunningly silly anti-#MeToo letter signed by Catherine Deneuve and a hundred other French women (the actual (…)
A letter was published in Le Monde newspaper on January 9th signed by artists and intellectuals of whom the most well-known was Catherine Deneuve. It is an unacceptable and mistaken reaction to something which is itself debatable. The letter is a call to women not to give in to the ‘new (…)
Sexual harassment of women is pervasive in society writes Andy Stowe. What should the Left do?
The allegations against Harvey Weinstein and a list of men which grows daily are indicative of a much wider problem and there remains widespread acceptance of the idea that men are entitled to (…)
The links between domestic violence and mass killings are now exhaustively documented. So why the conspiracy of silence?
In America, they call it the Day Three Story. After a mass shooting, depending on whether the suspect is young or old, white, Asian or black, Muslim or Christian, the press (…)
About the most cringe-inducing—no, rage-inciting—aspect of President Duterte’s slimy “joke” about taking personal blame and accepting the penalty for the first three rapes a soldier commits in the course of enforcing martial law in Mindanao is how it “normalizes” and condones the use of rape as (…)
Feminists in Mexico and Guatemala working on femicide also use the concept of ‘feminicide’ to draw attention to state complicity in the killings of women.
La Catrina Indignada (Incensed Catrina) by Mabel Encinas. Catrina collage of the women dead by feminicide.
The word ‘feminicide’ was (…)
With its tumultuous diversity and multifaceted culture, India has had its own history of the oppression of women. Feudal, patriarchal values have conjoined with capitalism (first brought in through colonization, now being imposed by both Indian ruling elites and Western capital represented by (…)
According to many European publications, all refugees and migrants should be held collectively responsible.
Who is to blame for a sexual assault? The answer would seem to be obvious: It’s the perpetrator. But the public debate over the recent sex attacks in Germany suggests that when the (…)
Feminists are in a conundrum with the Cologne attacks: speak out and align with racism or be silent and align with complicity. As we all now know, notwithstanding the belated media response, and its devolvement into a series of unhelpful culture wars, on New Year’s Eve up to 1,000 men sexually (…)
On New Year’s Eve the city of Cologne witnessed massive attacks against women. These attacks had a qualitatively new dimension – a combination of mainly migrant offenders and sexual assaults on a mass scale with theft, the equivocal attitude of the authorities and a strained social atmosphere (…)
On the night of New Year’s Eve, numerous women were sexually attacked in public spaces in Cologne and other German cities.. These crimes demand thorough and comprehensive investigations. The prevailing impunity regarding crimes of sexualised violence must end.
We demand that the survivors (…)
Facts
On New Year’s Eve 2015, simultaneous coordinated sexual attacks took place against women in public space in about 10 cities, mostly in Germany, but also in Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and Finland… Several hundred women, to this day, filed a case for sexual attack, robbery, and rape. (…)
The Isis recently beheaded two women in Syria on charges of sorcery. They have stoned women to death, forced them into sexual slavery, forcefully veiled them, barred them from public spaces, executed thousands of people and committed grave and gendered crimes. The general reaction is to shudder (…)
English translation of Islamic State (Isis) women’s manifesto is published by all-female al-Khanssaa Brigade.
Girls can marry at the age of nine, should ideally have husbands by 16 or 17 and should not be corrupted by going to work, according to a treatise published by female Islamic State (…)
Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French politician (…)
The 2013 Solidarity Convention spent a considerable amount of time and energy on the issues raised by the draft of the document, Solidarity Process Around Reports of Sexual Violence and Battering, in both its initial form and in its first revision. There was also an intense email discussion. (…)
You can contact Solidarity’s Commission on Gendered Violence at violencecommission gmail.com
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Introduction
The 2013 Solidarity Convention spent a considerable amount of time and energy on the issues raised by the draft of the document, Solidarity Process Around Reports (…)
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