Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by WOLEK Aleksandra
Aleksandra Wolek reports on a protest against the proposal to ban abortions in Poland, the largest Polish-led political protest in the UK in recent years.
On Saturday 9 April thousands of people demonstrated across Poland against the proposed ban on abortion. The demonstrations were called by (…)
, by GROSS Daniel
As Poland debates the most restrictive abortion law in Europe, campaigners have invoked genocide – but pro-choice Poles too have imported imagery from the US.
Six years ago, Polish activists made international headlines when they compared abortion to genocide. In the city of Poznań, posters (…)
, by MORTIMER Caroline
The 21-year-old’s defence lawyer said she did ’would not have found herself before the court’ if she lived anywhere else in the UK.
A Northern Irish woman has been given a suspended prison sentence for buying pills over the internet to induce an abortion.
The 21-year-old pleaded guilty to (…)
, by Reuters
Women’s rights activists infuriated by plans to tighten regulations to bring them into line with Catholic church’s teachings.
Thousands of people have attended a pro-choice rally outside parliament in Warsaw after the leader of Poland’s ruling party backed a call from Catholic bishops for a (…)
, by SMITH Alex Duval
As vote on issue looms in Warsaw parliament, Beata Szydło of Law & Justice party says she supports making terminations illegal
The Polish prime minister, Beata Szydło, said she backs moves towards a total ban on abortion, in a sign the nationalist government may be set to turn its (…)
, 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, (…)
, 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. (…)
, 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 BREDOUX Lénaïq
One of 40 signatories to an open letter details shocking levels of relentless, and sometimes violent, harassment.
There was the government minister who demanded to have a “pretty woman” opposite him during lunch. And another who would stop an interview to look at a young girl walking by and (…)
, by SHEA BAIRD Kate
Ada Colau and the other women involved in the citizen platform Barcelona en Comú are showing how municipal politics can be feminized from the bottom up.
Something special is happening in Barcelona. At the local elections in May, the citizen platform Barcelona en Comú (Barcelona in Common) (…)
, by GJORGJIOSKA Adela
Wrapped in a perfumed Valentine’s-meets-Mother’s-Day packaging, year after year International Women’s Day seems to become further stripped of its political flavour. What is worrying is that this occurs at a time when women face deteriorating conditions across south-east Europe, in their homes, (…)
, by ČAKARDIC Ankica
Ankica Čakardić is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. She coordinates educational programmes at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb, is a member of The Organisation for Workers Initiative and Democratisation, Croatia, Women’s Front for Labour and (…)
, by TOLIĆ Anita
Anita Tolić is a member of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism and Institute for Labour Studies in Slovenia.
“In the relative absence of an organized, progressive feminist struggle, the economic and social circumstances, which generate re-traditionalisation, re-patriarchalisation and (…)
, by GAITANOU Eirini
Eirini Gaitanou, is a PhD student at King’s College London, studying social movements amid the crisis in Greece. She has been active in the social movements in Greece for over a decade and has participated in both practical and theoretical debates during this time. She is a member of the (…)
, by BLANC Eric
In 1906, Finland became the world’s first nation to grant full female suffrage.[1] This watershed achievement for women was won by Finnish socialists during the revolutionary upheaval that swept the Czarist empire to which Finland belonged.
Yet this important history has been overlooked by (…)
, by Socialist Democracy (Ireland)
The repression of women by the Irish state has been exposed yet again by the case of a clinically dead woman being kept alive in order to continue a pregnancy. The responsibility of the state for this woman’s situation was summed up in the claim by doctors that they were unable to accede to her (…)
, by RYDER Andrew
Andrew Ryder explains how the Hungarian ruling party’s anti-woman campaign is part and parcel of their larger agenda.
A PUBLIC service announcement (PSA) produced by the Hungarian government has provoked worldwide outrage by placing the blame for sexual assault on survivors. The video depicts (…)
, by EZQUERRA Sandra
In the past few years numerous authors have examined how the current economic crisis in Spain has differential impacts on women and men. While this is important to show, this article’s goal is to make the leap from a mere description of the gendered effects of the crisis, to an analysis of some (…)
, by PYZIK Agata
The backlash sees sex education and contraception being restricted – and gay people compared to paedophiles.
Post-communist countries have experienced of late a kind of inverted sexual revolution. You’ve heard about the appalling new law against “homosexual propaganda” in Russia, or perhaps (…)
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