The Italian feminist movement Non una di meno (not one less) ] issued the following call for a national demonstration on 25 November, the International Day Against Violence Against Women.
We are the tide that flooded the streets of Rome on the last 26th of November. We are the ones that on the (...)
, by KELLY Jane
What is it that has happened to open up the huge debate across the media and beyond about sexism? Why has it happened now? It’s been going on for ever yet suddenly everyone is talking and writing about it. From Hollywood to the British parliament, from the popular press to left wing blogs, (...)
, by SMALEJAN Alison
BERLIN — Caught up in a melee of drunken revelers outside the Cologne train station on New Year’s Eve, Caitlin Duncan, a neuroscience student from Seattle, was terrified. She had somehow gotten separated from her German boyfriend, who had both their cellphones and her wallet. Ms. Duncan, 27, said (...)
, by KLEIN Angela
During the night of the 31 December / 1 January the city of Cologne was the scene of massive attacks on women. These attacks represent a new quality. Similar but less massive assaults took place in Hamburg and Stuttgart.
According to the police up to thousand men were assaulting women on the (...)
, by STOCKLE Silke, WEGSCHEIDER Marion
Dozens of women were sexually harassed on New Year’s Eve in Germany. But rather than connecting the events to everyday sexist violence in Germany, the political and media establishments have focused on the nationalities of the alleged perpetrators argue Silke Stöckle and Marion Wegscheider.
The (...)
, by SMITH Lydia
Keeping an “arm’s length” from strangers is just one of the suggestions made by Cologne’s mayor to avoid sexual assault, after dozens of women were targeted in the city on New Year’s Eve. Following a crisis meeting after an unprecedented number of women were groped, harassed and assaulted during (...)
, by PATEL Pragna
The various social contracts that are emerging between the State and the dominant religious right minority leaderships in the UK trade on nothing less than the human rights of minority women, says Pragna Patel.
There is more than one form of freedom, explains Aunt Lydia, a prominent character (...)
, by PATEL Pragna
The lack of accuracy in understanding honour based abuse in the UK has critical implications, not only for social policy and strategies developed to protect women, but also in fostering equality and anti-racism.
‘Honour killings’ in the UK are back in the spot light with the high profile case of (...)
, by HUNDAL Sunny
This conspiracy of silence over immigrant brides must end Sunny Hundal.
Last week a young bride was living in fear of her life after managing to escape from a violent husband and his family in Manchester. She had suffered six months of domestic violence and verbal abuse. She said that (...)
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