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PART 1: International media about the
atrocities against women worldwide
from March 1 untill April 7 2021 and continuing
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PART 2: International media
about the
atrocities against women worldwide from April 26 untill April 12 2021
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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity.
Gino d'Artali
QUOTING
When I quote I use < is opening quote and > is closing
quote. When I close quoting from the article I use >>.
Gino d'Artali, radical feminist, founder and journalist of
cryfreedom.net
March 9 untill april 7 2021 and the women stronger than
ever!!!
Of course the actions did not stop on March 8 or soon after.
In the meantime women and feminists have cotinued to fight for their
rights:
Al Jazeera March 1 2021 by Aljazeera staff
<Trauma, anger as Tigrayans recount Eritrea troops grave crimes.
Survivors and witnesses in Ethiopia its embattled region tell Al Jazeera
how civilians were raped and killed by troops from neighbouring
countries.
Mekelle, Ethiopia December 4 is a date that fills Mona Lisa Abraha with
horror. It was then, the 18 year old says, that Eritrean soldiers
entered her village of Tembin in Ethiopia its embattled region of Tigray.
<They tried to rape me and I was thrown to the ground. Then, one of the
soldiers fired bullets to scare me, but they hit my hand and then fired
another bullet that went through my arm,> Abraha recalls from a hospital
bed on the outskirts of Tigray its capital, Mekelle.
<I was bleeding for hours. Then, I had my arm amputated,> she says,
before breaking down in tears.
Abraha her account is one of few emerging from the secretive conflict in
Tigray, where communications were cut for many weeks and media access
was severely curbed before being slightly eased recently. Al Jazeera has
now gained rare access and heard from witnesses and survivors who allege
that they suffered grave abuses at the hands of Eritrean troops. After
months of tension, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in early November
ordered an air and ground offensive in Tigray to remove the region its
governing party, the Tigray People its Liberation Front (TPLF), following
attacks on federal army camps. The TPLF, which dominated Ethiopian
politics for decades until Abiy came to power in 2018, had presided over
a brutal 1998 untill2000 war with Eritrea.
Witnesses, survivors and residents told Al Jazeera that forces from
Eritrea committed egregious crimes after entering Tigray to support the
Ethiopian military against their longtime foe.
<Some girls and I managed to leave the village, but on the road we were
caught by Eritrean soldiers,> Saba, a displaced woman from Mai Kadra,
told Al Jazeera. <More than 10 soldiers took turns raping us.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/1/we-are-dying-tigrayans-speak-of-abuse-by-eritrean-troops
Aljazeera
March 9 2021
<One in three women worldwide have been subject to sexual or physical
violence during their lifetime, according to a new report by the World
Health
Organization (WHO).
The UN agency released the study on Tuesday urging governments to
prevent violence, improve services for victims, and tackle economic
inequalities
that often leave women and girls trapped in abusive relationships.
About 31 percent of women aged 15-49, or up to 852 million women, have
experienced physical or sexual violence, the WHO said in what it called
the largest ever such study, encompassing national data and surveys from
2000-2018.
Boys should be taught in school about the need for mutual respect in
relationships and mutual consent in sex, WHO officials said.
<Violence against women is endemic in every country and culture, causing
harm to millions of women and their families, and has been exacerbated
by
the COVID-19 pandemic,> WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
said.
A husband or intimate partner is the most common perpetrator and a
disproportionate number of victims are in the poorest countries, the
report said.
One in four women are subjected to violence perpetrated by their
intimate partners, it said, adding abuse sometimes starts at the
<alarmingly
young> age of 15.
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/9/one-in-three-women-globally-endure-violence-who
Aljazeera
March 22 2021
By
Maham Javaid
<Pakistans
feminists say will persevere amid increased threats
Segments of
media and right-wing groups accuse Aurat March organisers and marchers
of <vulgarity and obscenity> for demanding equal rights.
Organisers and participants in
womens rights marches across Pakistan are facing a sustained campaign
of misinformation, blasphemy allegations and threats, an escalation of
the conservative response to the country its feminist movement in recent
years.
On March 8, for
the fourth consecutive year, thousands of woman across the South Asian
country attended the Aurat March (Womens March) events held in towns
and cities to mark International Womens Day.
<It is a day for us to celebrate our femininity, to share our traumas
and pain, to express ourselves as we deem fit, and to demand our right
to equality, health, education, mobility, and freedom from violence,>
said B, an Aurat March organiser from Karachi.
B, and all
Aurat March organisers interviewed by Al Jazeera, asked to be identified
only by their initials due to threats.
<Despite
everything, we will keep demanding our rights and coming out to march,>
B said.
Pakistan ranks near the bottom of global gender parity indices, with the
World Economic Forum its Global Gender Gap Report 2020 (PDF)
rating it at 151 out of 153 countries ranked.
At least 28
percent of women aged between 15 and 49 have experienced physical
violence, with 40 percent of the men polled agreeing that it was
acceptable to beat your wife under certain circumstances, according to
government data (PDF).
Segments of
Pakistan its media and the countries religious right-wing groups have
accused the marchers of <vulgarity> and <obscenity> for demanding equal
rights, in particular objecting to slogans that asserted <my body, my
choice> (<mera jism, meri marzi>).
Not all in the media were critical of the march, but the widespread
anti-march sentiment does tap into the problematic relationship between
Pakistan its mainstream media and the countries feminist movement.
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/3/22/pakistans-feminists-say-will-persevere-amid-increased-threats
The Guardian
23 3 21
<'No more shame': the French women breaking the law to highlight
femicide
An activist who is part of Les Colleuses movement stands in front of a
poster which reads: <I believe you>, in Paris, France, in October last
year. ( Cryfreedom.net editors note:Photograph: Kiran Ridley/Getty
Images can be seen as part of the article)
Alarming rates of violence have inspired a poster campaign that has
spread beyond France to more than 15 countries
by Kim Willsher
Tue 23 Mar 2021 15.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 24 Mar 2021 17.49 GMT
On a weekday evening, in between coronavirus lockdowns and curfews,
Camille, Natacha and Cindy are out with a bright yellow plastic bucket
of glue, two large brushes and a wad of A4 paper, each sheet covered
with a single letter.
The women, all in their 20s, stop on the main road of this Paris suburb
by the wall of what looks like a former bank.
<This is good,> says Camille. It is the signal for a well-practised
piece of choreography: Natacha glues; Camille slaps up each lettered
sheet; Cindy pastes over it.>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/23/no-more-shame-the-french-women-breaking-the-law-to-highlight-femicide
Al Jazeera
27 March, 2021
<Thousands protest Turkey its exit from domestic violence treaty
Protesters take to the streets for second consecutive weekend to demand
Turkey reverse decision to withdraw from 2011 Istanbul Convention.
Protesters have taken to the streets of Istanbul for the second straight
weekend to protest against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan his decision
to withdraw from an international treaty to combat violence against
women.
Erdogan last week sparked anger with the announcement Turkey was pulling
out of the Istanbul Convention, named after the Turkish city where it
was drafted in 2011.
Justifying the decision to withdraw, the presidency argued the treaty
had been <hijacked by a group of people attempting to normalise
homosexuality> which it said was <incompatible> with Turkey its <social
and family values>.
There was a flood of reaction from Western countries and international
organisations including the United Nations, which called on Turkey to
reconsider its decision.
On Saturday, protesters gathered in an Istanbul seafront square under
heavy police presence, waving purple flags and chanting slogans such as
<Murders of women are political.>
<Protect women, not the perpetrators of violence>, one placard read,
with another adding, <LGBTI+ rights are human rights.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/thousands-protest-turkey-exit-domestic-violence-treaty
Read here a special poem my mother and I (radical
feminist and journalist of cryfreedom.net ) wrote in support of the above and below articles and the
women and feminists protests it reports about
Russian-Tajik singer Manizja Sangin, a rebel with
a cause.
Al Jazeera
March 25 2021
<Ethiopia its Tigray: Men forced to rape family members, UN reports
At least 516 rape cases reported by five medical facilities in Mekelle,
Adigrat, Wukro, Shire and Axum, UN official says.
More than 500 rape cases were reported to five clinics in Ethiopia its
Tigray region, the United Nations said on Thursday, warning because of
stigma and a lack of health services the actual numbers were likely to
be much higher.
<Women say they have been raped by armed actors, they also told stories
of gang rape, rape in front of family members and men being forced to
rape their own family members under the threat of violence,> Wafaa
Said, deputy UN aid coordinator in Ethiopia, said in a briefing to UN
member states in New York.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/25/ethiopias-tigray-men-forced-to-rape-family-members-un-reports
Al Jazeera
27 March, 2021
<Thousands protest Turkey its exit from domestic violence treaty
Protesters take to the streets for second consecutive weekend to demand
Turkey reverse decision to withdraw from 2011 Istanbul Convention.
Protesters have taken to the streets of Istanbul for the second straight
weekend to protest against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan his decision
to withdraw from an international treaty to combat violence against
women.
Erdogan last week sparked anger with the announcement Turkey was pulling
out of the Istanbul Convention, named after the Turkish city where it
was drafted in 2011.
Justifying the decision to withdraw, the presidency argued the treaty
had been <hijacked by a group of people attempting to normalise
homosexuality> which it said was <incompatible> with Turkey its <social
and family values>.
There was a flood of reaction from Western countries and international
organisations including the United Nations, which called on Turkey to
reconsider its decision.
On Saturday, protesters gathered in an Istanbul seafront square under
heavy police presence, waving purple flags and chanting slogans such as
<Murders of women are political.>
<Protect women, not the perpetrators of violence>, one placard read,
with another adding, <LGBTI+ rights are human rights.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/thousands-protest-turkey-exit-domestic-violence-treat
The Guardian
Sat 27 Mar 2021
Journalist Hadley Freeman
<My sons ask if a man has ever hurt me. Not really, I lie>
A recent YouGov survey found that 86% of women aged 18-24 in the UK have
been sexually harassed. This statistic shocked me: did the other 14% not
understand the question? To live in fear of harassment or assault is
such a universal female experience that many of us do not even think
about it, having learned to accept it from an absurdly early age. It
does not break you but it shapes you, like a rock face getting battered
by strong waves. This is my own story, in 10 parts.
Aged seven: my friends and I are in the park when a bush next to us
trembles. A man climbs out holding his penis towards us, as if he is
offering a special on the menu. This is the first time I have seen a
penis, and it is disgusting and terrifying, an impression it takes
decades to shake.>
Click here to read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/27/my-sons-ask-if-a-man-has-ever-hurt-me-not-really-i-lie-hadley-freeman
Note from the cryfreedom.net chief editor:
<I never trusted the taliban in Afghanistan, especially also since women
are a main target to them. Before they had different reassons to attack
and kill them, now, amidst the Covid 19 epidemic especially it are
female health workers being another target and killed.>
Read this article publisched by Aljazeera on 30 March 2021:
<Female polio vaccination workers shot dead in Afghanistan: Report
Gunmen kill three female health workers in eastern city of Jalalabad,
government sources tell Reuters news agency.
Gunmen have killed three female polio vaccination health workers in the
eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, two government sources have told the
Reuters news agency.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the two separate shootings,
a provincial government official said on Tuesday. A central government
source confirmed the shootings, Reuters said.
The killings came on the second day of a new five-day door-to-door
anti-polio vaccination drive launched in Afghanistan and neighbouring
Pakistan on Monday to vaccinate millions of children despite the risks
posed by the coronavirus.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/pakistan-afghanistan-hold-five-day-anti-polio-vaccination-drive
Aljazeera
march 29 2021
<Mexico investigating Salvadoran womans death in
police custody.
A video showed Victoria Salazar Arriaza pinned to the ground by police,
reminiscent of the death of George Floyd.
Mexican prosecutors have announced that they have opened a homicide
investigation into the death of a Salvadoran woman who was shown on
video being pinned to the ground by a female police officer, drawing
similarities with the death of George Floyd last year.
Victoria Salazar Arriaza, 36, died on Saturday in the Caribbean beach
resort of Tulum. A video published by news site Noticaribe showed her
writhing and crying out as she lay face down on a road with a
policewoman kneeling on her back while male officers stood by.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/29/mexico-to-investigate-salvadoran-womans-death-in-police-custody
Aljazeera, March 30 2021
<Death of Victoria Salazar ignites more outrage in Mexico
Female groups in two Mexican cities have taken to the streets in
protest, demanding justice for the Salvadoran woman.
The death of Victoria Esperanza Salazar, a Salvadoran migrant, who died
in Mexico after a policewoman put her knee on her back for several
minutes, continued to evoke outrage on Tuesday, after additional details
of her life and how she died surfaced.
Dozens of women in the sprawling capital Mexico City and in Tulum, the
city where Salazar lived, took to the streets in protest. Women chanted,
waved signs, scrawled graffiti and held <die ins> on Monday evening,
demanding justice.
Protesters also took the streets of El Salvador its capital, San
Salvador.
Salazar, 36, died on Saturday after police said they responded to a
public disturbance call in the resort town of Tulum.
<She did not deserve to die like this,> Rosibel Arriaza, Salazar her
mother, told journalists outside the Salvadoran foreign ministry. <I
feel indignation, I feel powerless, I feel frustrated,> she said. <I
would have wanted to be there as a mother.>
She also called for justice for her daughter, saying even though she
knows that it would not bring her daughter back, it would give her some
satisfaction knowing that those responsible <paid> for what they did.
In the viral video, Salazar could be heard screaming as a female officer
puts a knee to her back while she was handcuffed and barefoot face down
on the ground. Three other male police officers were standing by. The
video then cuts to the officers carrying Salazar her limp body still
handcuffed onto the back of a police pick-up truck. She was not seen
being administered any medical help.
Quintana Roo state prosecutor Oscar Montes said in a video on Monday
that Salazar had died of a broken neck. Mexico its President Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador said Salazar was <brutally treated and murdered>>.
Note by chief editor Gino d'Artali of
cryfreedom.net: I caterogize Victiora Salazars of again another femicide!!!
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/death-of-victoria-salazar-ignites-more-outrage-in-mexico
The Guardian, 30 Mar 2021
by Jaqueline Rose:
<Damage: the silent forms of violence against women
How is it that those with the power to inflict most harm are blind to
the consequences of their actions?
It is a truism to say that everyone knows violence when they see it, but
if one thing has become clear in the past decade, it is that the most
prevalent, insidious forms of violence are those that cannot be seen.
Consider, for example, a photograph from January 2017. A group of
identical-looking white men in dark suits looked on as their president
signed an executive order banning US state funding to groups anywhere in
the world offering abortion or abortion counselling.
The passing of the <global gag rule> effectively launched the Trump
presidency. (It was scrapped by Joe Biden soon after his inauguaration a
few weeks ago.) The ruling meant an increase in deaths by illegal
abortion for thousands of women throughout the developing world. Its
effects have been as cruel as they are precise. No non-governmental
organisation (NGO) in receipt of US funds could henceforth accept non-US
support, or lobby governments across the world, on behalf of the right
to abortion. A run of abortion bans followed in conservative
Republican-held US states. In November 2019, Ohio introduced to the
state legislature a bill which included the requirement that in cases of
ectopic pregnancy, doctors must reimplant the embryo into the woman its
uterus or face a charge of <abortion murder>. (Ectopic pregnancy can be
fatal to the mother and no such procedure exists in medical science.)
At a talk in London in June 2019, Kate Gilmore, the UN deputy
commissioner for human rights, described US policy on abortion as a form
of extremist hate that amounts to the torture of women. <We have not
called it out in the same way we have other forms of extremist hate,>
she stated, <but this is gender-based violence against women, no
question.>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/30/damage-the-silent-forms-of-violence-against-women
The social justice activists battling racism and
misogyny
The British activist who campaigned to make <upskirting> illegal and the
American anti-racism activist who inspires her.
Al Jazeera
By Rosie Hopegood
30 Mar 2021
London, June 2017. The sun was high in the sky and the temperature
hovered around 30 degrees. Writer Gina Martin, then 25, and her sister,
Stevie, headed to a day festival in Hyde Park, excited to see one of
their favourite bands, The Killers, perform. But as they stood in the
crowd waiting for the band to come on stage, Gina felt someone rub up
against her, uncomfortably close. When she turned around, she saw two
men laughing, looking down at a phone. When she stepped closer to look
at the screen, her heart dropped.
There, on the man his phone, was a photo of her crotch. The man had not
just rubbed up against her but had shoved his phone up her skirt and
taken the picture, while surrounded by hundreds of people in broad
daylight.
Horrified, Gina snatched the phone from the stranger his hand and began
to shout for help at the top of her voice. The man became aggressive,
towering over her and screaming in her face to hand back his phone. <My
first instinct was to run to the people who were there to keep me safe,>
Gina wrote at the time. <I ran as fast as I possibly could and fell into
the arms of festival security. They took the phone, calmed me down and
called the police immediately.>
Security guards formed a protective ring around Gina as the furious man
tried in vain to retrieve his phone. When the police arrived, they were
sympathetic, with one officer commenting that Gina <should be able to go
to a festival in 30-degree heat and wear a skirt without worrying about
this happening>.
But Gina was appalled when they explained that because <upskirting> the
act of taking a clandestine photograph up a woman her skirt was not
listed as a sexual offence, the case was unlikely to be taken further.
After agreeing to delete the photo, the man was free to go.
Five days later, Gina was told the case had been closed. Horrified, she
took to social media to write about her experience. When the post went
viral, she started an online petition which quickly garnered more than
50,000 signatures. Determined to change the law to protect other women,
she hired lawyer Ryan Whelan and began an 18-month legal battle that
cast her into the midst of intense media scrutiny.
In February 2019, Gina won a victory for British women when the
government introduced a new bill to make <upskirting> illegal. Within a
year, 16 men had been convicted of <upskirting>, with four of them given
prison sentences.
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/3/30/the-social-justice-activists-battling-racism-and-misogyny
An alleged rape inside Australia its parliament
Australia is facing a reckoning on sexual violence.
Al Jazeera
31 Mar 2021
<Australia is facing a reckoning on sexual violence, specifically within
the field of politics. One woman says she was raped inside Parliament
House. In a separate case, the now former attorney general has been
accused of assault. And many Australians say the government is not doing
enough to address a culture of toxicity for women in political spaces.
The growing protest movement calls for change in all communities, and
for all women.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2021/3/31/an-alleged-rape-inside-australias-parliament
Slaughterhouse rape
- A cryfreedom.net article by radical feminist Gino d'Artali
The Guardian
April 1, 2021
This is a very good article about <It are teenage
girls who deserve praise
for speaking out about sexual assault.>
by journalist Emmaline Monteith.
<The recent petition launched by Chanel Contos calling for greater
sexual consent education brought the reality of teenage girls their
experiences of sexual assault into the public domain. Thousands of
adolescent girls and young women detailed allegations of being harassed
or assaulted by their male peers. It highlighted how much we need to
help teenage girls feel more comfortable to share their own experiences.
At the same time, a number of teenage boys have received praise for
speaking out about this issue, urging their own peers to show greater
respect for women.
<Do they even know they did this to us?>: why I launched the school
sexual assault petition
On social media, these teenage boys have been told that they are
<inspiring, courageous and impressive>, and <outstanding> for speaking
out against sexual assault. They are told that their words which are
often shared widely online and published by major news outlets provide
<hope for thefuture of equality and justice for women>. They are told
that they are <the future we need>.
While being a good ally is obviously important, I cannot help but feel
frustrated at the enormous amount of attention and praise teenage boys
can receive for saying the same things their female counterparts have
been saying for years.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/01/its-teenage-girls-who-deserve-praise-for-speaking-out-about-sexual-assault
De Standaard (Flemisch newspaper) April 2, 2021
Original text in Flemisch by journalist Matthias Verbergt.
Translated by Gino d'Artali
<Imprisonment for rape doubles
The De Croo government approved a tighter penalties for sex crimes. The
sexual age of consent remains at 16 for the time being.It was an
important spearhead from the start of the government in October:
bringing sexual criminal law up to date. Due to the fall of the previous
government, the new criminal code had been shelved. Minister of Justice
Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) extracted the sexual crimes and
today the government found an initial agreement on the texts. They still
have to go to the Council of State and other advisory bodies, and then
parliament. But the principles will probably remain intact.
1. Consent central
For many crimes such as indecent assault, violence or coercion is
sometimes a necessary condition. The reform will involve a sexual
offense as soon as consent is lacking. There is no consent if the victim
is in a vulnerable state as a result of, for example, sleep or alcohol,
affecting free will. Consent can still be withdrawn during the sexual
act.
2. Strict for Rape
Rape should normally appear before an assize jury. However, the length
of such trials mes that rape is almost always <corrected>, allowing the
maximum prison sentence to be five years - half the normal maximum
senteannce. That will be doubled to ten years.
Read more
here
The Guardian
April 5 2021
Lizzie Cernik
<How we met: 'I was
terrified my parents would find out I had been intimate with another
girl.>
<Lucy
Campbell was 11 years old when her parents sent her to an independent
Catholic school near their home in North Devon. It was during the
entrance exam that Hen Staveley-Brown caught her eye for the first time.
<She was one of the least girly girls,> remembers Lucy. <A tomboy, like
me.> When the pair started school in September 1979, they soon became
good friends. <Lucy lived three miles from me and we were always round
at each others houses or going out together,> says Hen. <There was
definitely a connection there that developed into something else later
on.> Lucy says they were <unhappy teenagers> who were <a bit wild and
often in trouble> In 1983, the girls went on a Duke of Edinburgh trip
with their classmates. They spent the night together in a tent after
getting drunk, and rumours spread quickly. <Everyone knew and I was
terrified my parents would find out I had been intimate with another
girl,> says Lucy. At the time, same sex relationships were pretty much
unheard of, especially at a Catholic school in rural Devon. In private,
the pair continued to have a stormy relationship with frequent fallouts,
until they left school in 1984. <Our school shut down because it was
failing and we lost touch with each other,> says Lucy. <I went off to
college for a while and then later went to London to work as a nurse. I
wanted to forget about it all and just blend in.> Hen joined the police
and moved to Bristol. <It was a shock for some, because I think the nuns
always thought I would end up in jail,> she says, laughing.>>
Click here to read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/05/how-we-met-i-was-terrified-my-parents-would-find-out-id-been-intimate-with-another-girl
The Guardian
April 9 2021
<I wont allow myself to be broken.
Russias Eurovision
candidate Manizha takes on the <haters>.
By the way: cryfreedom.net
reported about her earlier: read here:
Russian-Tajik singer Manizja Sangin, a rebel with
a cause.
Andrew Roth, Russia corespondent
Russia its 2021
Eurovision
candidate breezes into a conference room, Channel One documentary film
crew in tow, offering a simple tea of mint leaves brewed in hot water.
<On days like today, I want something calming,> Manizha says, pouring
two cups, as a boom mic hovers over us. No pressure.
The
Tajikistan-born singer, who will perform her feminist ballad
Russian Woman
next month at the
much-loved, much-mocked song contest in Rotterdam, is the target of a
fiery conservative backlash
for her foreign
roots and her lyrics attacking female stereotypes.
But she is an
optimist and, as the documentary crew moves on, says she has learned to
manage the torrent of abuse that began when she won a televised vote to
represent her adopted country last month.
<I will not allow
myself to be broken,> she says in an hour-long interview, shedding a
suzani patterned robe to sit in jeans and a black sweater. <If I came
apart right now because of the <haters>, started crying, started saying
<oh my God>, then I would prove all of their words to be true.>
In the west,
Manizha says, she may seem like a <very careful feminist>. But her
activism against domestic violence and xenophobia, her body positive
posts on Instagram and her support of the LGBT community have led to her
being typecast as a radical here:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/09/russia-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters
The guardian
April 9 2021
Kari Paul
<When Chelsey Glasson
found out she was pregnant with her second child in 2019, she did not
anticipate the first three years of her new baby its life would be
overshadowed by an epic legal battle against a trillion-dollar company.
The 38 year-old sued
Google,
her former employer, in 2020 alleging she had been discriminated against
while pregnant and witnessed others being treated similarly, and faced
retaliation from her manager when she spoke up about it.
Since then,
Glasson says, battling to win her case has become a nearly fulltime
job, one that has pitted her against a company with
a global army of
lawyers
at the ready.
Despite being represented by attorneys in Washington and partially
backed by a not for profit group, the American Association of University
Women, she finds herself putting in grueling hours preparing for her
upcoming trial this year. She spends her nights, after her two kids are
asleep, discovering documents and preparing for processes such as her
recent deposition in March. <The fight has affected her childrens lives
almost as much as her own, she says.
Women at Google miss out on thousands of dollars as a result of pay
discrimination, lawsuit alleges.
<Even if they
don not know what is going on exactly, they know mommy is not all there,
they know that I am not always present for them,> she said of her
children, who are two and four years old. <It is heartbreaking to see
how this impacts not just the person who is targeted by pregnancy
discrimination, but the entire family.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/09/she-sued-for-pregnancy-discrimination-now-shes-battling-googles-army-of-lawyers
Aljazeera
April 12 2021
<Pakistani court grants bail to father of prominent activist
Muhammad Ismail, 66-year-old father of Gulalai Ismail, to be released
after more than two months in jail.
By Asad Hashim
Islamabad, Pakistan, A Pakistani court has granted bail to Muhammad
Ismail, the father of a prominent Pakistani rights activist, who was
arrested earlier this year on <terrorism> charges that local and
international rights groups have condemned as being part of a campaign
of <harassment>.
The court in the northwestern city of Peshawar granted bail to Ismail on
Monday, and he was expected to be released a day later, his daughter
Gulalai Ismail told Al Jazeera.>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/12/pakistani-court-grants-bail-to-father-of-prominent-activist
Aljazeera
April 12 2021
By Jessie Williams
<Last month marked 10 years since the beginning of the Syrian uprising
when peaceful protesters, galvanised by the Arab Spring, went out on to
the streets demanding freedom from an authoritarian regime and were met
with bullets.
President Bashar al Assad vowed to crush dissent. In doing so, he set in
motion a proxy war, creating what the UN its human rights chief has called
the <worst man made disaster the world has seen since World War II>.
Countless studies have shown that women and girls are disproportionately
affected by war both during and after as existing inequalities are
amplified and there is heightened vulnerability to sexual violence and
exploitation.
<As women, we did not only stand against the regime, we had a bigger
battle because we had the patriarchal society, the armed groups or the
extremists, and the warplanes of the regime and Russia,> explains Ghalia
Rahal. The 47 year old had to leave her home in Kafranbel, southern
Idlib and now lives in the Barisha IDP camp in northern Idlib.
She founded the Mazaya Centre in 2013, converting her hairdressing salon
into a safe space to empower women through vocational training and
support. It expanded into a network of centres, but several had to be
shut because of heavy fighting.
Rahal says every week some eight women who have been abused come to the
Mazaya Centre looking for help. <Sexual harassment and abuse existed
before the war and it is not only in Syria. But because of the war, it
increased.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/12/how-syrian-women-are-fighting-a-war-and-patriarchy
The Flemisch newspaper De
Morgen
April 11 2021
Translation by yours thruly Gino d'Artali
<Sofagate3:
European womens
organizations request the dismissal of Charles Michel in an open letter.
European President Michel was
discredited earlier this week during his visit with European Commission
President Ursula Von der Leyen to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Only two chairs were provided for that maintenance and they were used by
Michel and Erdogan, while Van der Leyen had to sit on the sofa. Michel
has been criticized for sitting on the chair just like that and making
no sense that no chair was provided for the woman in the company.
According to
the Fondation Millenia organization, an international organization that
is committed to, among other things, equality between men and women,
Michel made <three major mistakes> that <hit the face of all women>>.
Read more here:
www.cryfreedom.net/cofagate3.htm
April 9 2021
Translation by yours thruly Gino d'Artali
<European womens
organizations request the dismissal of Charles Michel in an open letter.
European President Michel was
discredited earlier this week during his visit with European Commission
President Ursula Von der Leyen to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Only two chairs were provided for that maintenance and they were used by
Michel and Erdogan, while Van der Leyen had to sit on the sofa. Michel
has been criticized for sitting on the chair just like that and making
no sense that no chair was provided for the woman in the company.
According to the Fondation Millenia
organization, an international organization that is committed to, among
other things, equality between men and women, Michel made <three major
mistakes> that <hit the face of all women>.
The Commission chief was clearly
taken aback when the two men
sat on the only two chairs prepared.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/9/turkey-condemns-italian-pm-draghi-dictator-erdogan-remarks
The Guardian
6 April 2021
<'Very intimidating': teachers on sexual harassment by pupils>
Teachers
highlight toxic culture of sexual harassment and abuse they face in
school.
Education
correspondent
Sally
Weale
<I have
had threats of rape. I have had someone say: <I am going to seek out
your daughter and rape her.> <You are called a slag and a slut.
Sometimes it is banter and they all think it is funny. Sometimes it is
anger directed at you.>
Anne, who does not want to give her real name, worked in a pupil
referral unit with excluded pupils in south-west England until she quit
her job because of post traumatic stress disorder, and is one of many
teachers to bear witness to the toxic culture of sexual harassment and
abuse within schools.
The issue of sexual misconduct in schools has hit the headlines in
recent weeks because of the testimonies submitted by pupils to the
Everyone is Invited website. Over the weekend however, the NASUWT union
has highlighted that teachers face similar problems.
Anne has already submitted her testimony to Everyone is Invited. Her
experiences with some of the most challenging pupils in the school
system in England may be more extreme than others, but she has worked in
mainstream schools, too, and she says it is also a problem there and one
that is getting worse.>>
Click here to read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/06/very-intimidating-teachers-on-sexual-harassment-by-pupils
Al Jazeera
april 7 2021
<Outrage after Pakistan its Imran Khan links rape to how women dress
Khan faces backlash for saying the increase in rapes indicated
<consequences in any society where vulgarity is on the rise>.
Pakistani women activists and rights campaigners have accused Prime
Minister Imran Khan of <baffling ignorance> after the
cricketer
turned politician
blamed how women dress for a rise in rape cases.
In a weekend interview on live television, Oxford-educated Khan said an
increase in rapes indicated the <consequences in any society where
vulgarity
is on the rise>.
<The incidents of rape of women have actually very rapidly increased in
society,> he said.
He advised women to cover up to prevent temptation.
<This entire concept of purdah is to avoid temptation, not everyone has
the willpower to avoid it,> he said, using a term that can refer to
modest
dress or the segregation of the sexes.
Hundreds have signed a statement circulating online on Wednesday,
calling Khan his comments <factually incorrect, insensitive and
dangerous>.
<Fault rests solely with the rapist and the system that enables the
rapist, including a culture fostered by statements such as those made by
Khan,>
the statement said.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/7/outrage-after-pakistans-imran-khan-links-rape-to-how-women-dress
ABOVE MARCH 9 untill APRIL 7 2021 SEVERAL
MEDIA ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY MARCH 8 2021 AND WHAT FOLLOWED:
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BELOW SEVERAL MEDIA ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY MARCH 8 2020 AND
2019:
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Womens day: Mexico barrier turned into women's memorial.
Fencing erected to protect Mexico's National Palace ahead of a planned
march to mark International Womens Day has been turned into a memorial.
The names of hundreds of victims of femicides murders of women because
of their gender - have been painted on the metal fencing.
The three-metre-high (9.8ft) barrier was put up to protect the palace <from vandalism>, the government said.
Womens groups say the government does not do enough to combat femicides.>
Read more here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56321145
Read also:
femicides (a Gino d'Artali, radical
feminist, founder and journalist of cryfreedom.net)
AUSTRALIA
<APAC
Australians condemn violence against women as they celebrate
International Womens Day
Celebrating International Womens Day, a young woman stood outside the
New South Wales state parliament, with the message <My body, my
business> written across her body, while another held a placard reading
<Equal work deserves equal pay!>.
A variety of workers - from nurses and teachers to hairdressers and
transport workers - took part in the gathering. It comes as the
government
launched a A$19 million ($14.57 million) campaign urging people to speak
up when they witness disrespect against women.>
<Let us all work together ... so that we finally move to a world where
sexual violence and sexual assault and sexual harassment is a thing of
the
past,> Jenny Leong, a parliamentary representative from the Greens party
told the crowd.
Australias parliament is under increased scrutiny over sexual assault
allegations.
Three female employees of Prime Minister Scott Morrisons Liberal party
last month said they had been raped by the same man in 2019 and 2020.
One
of the alleged victims has lodged a complaint with police.
Last week, Attorney-General Christian Porter, the countries chief law
officer, identified himself as the subject of a separate historical rape
allegation,
declared his innocence and strongly denied the claim.> Read more here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKBN2B00TI
Read also:
Slaughterhouse rape (a cryfreedom
article)
<RadioFreeEurope
Thousands Worldwide March For Rights, Denounce Abuse On Women's Day
Thousands of women marched in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Kosovo,
Ukraine, and elsewhere around the globe on International Womens Day,
demanding equal rights and denouncing harassment and abuse.
More than a dozen people reportedly were detained in Tehran as womens
rights activists attempted to stage a peaceful protest outside the Labor
Ministry on March 8.
A spokeswoman said that on this one day, out of an entire year, we as
women of this country should be able to make these cities our own, stay
in
the streets, and return to our homes at a days end, without having our
bones crushed the activists said in a statement issued earlier in the
week.
Chanting slogans, hundreds of women rallied in Pakistan its capital,
Islamabad, its largest city Karachi, and the cultural capital of Lahore,
denouncing
violence against women in Pakistan, where nearly 1,000 women are killed
by close relatives each year in so-called honor killings.>
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Read more here:
https://www.rferl.org/a/thousands-worldwide-march-rights-denounce-abuse-international-womens-day/29088056.html
<Why Womens Day march irks conservative Pakistanis.
Pakistan Womens group <Aurat Azadi March> (Womens Freedom March) with its slogan
<my body, my choice,> ((Note of the cryfreedom chief editor: <I call
this a huge victory and step forward to end men its oppression!!!) has become an extremely polarizing annual event.
Its
organizers are now facing increasing threats from right-wing groups.>
Read more here:
https://www.dw.com/en/why-womens-day-march-irks-conservative-pakistanis/a-5678720
<abcNEWS
Thousands of Ukrainian women march against domestic violence
Thousands of women marched through the center of Ukraine its capital on
International Womens Day to draw attention to domestic violence, which
has
risen sharply amid restrictions imposed to block the spread of
covid-19 virus.> Read more here:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/thousands-ukrainian-women-march-domestic-violence-76321515
Also read
Femicidas.
an article by cryfreedom.net
<TRTWORLD
International Womens Day: Rallies and pledges amid raging pandemic
Women are rallying across the world to push for wide-ranging demands,
stemming from the need for broad spectrum gender equality and an end to
gender-based violence on International Womens Day (IWD). Though many
marches took place (with more scheduled), events have been subdued by
Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.> Read more here:
https://www.trtworld.com/life/international-women-s-day-rallies-and-pledges-amid-raging-pandemic-44814
<vox IRAN
For more than 100 years, International Womens Day has been celebrated
by honoring the achievements of women globally.
But this year, because of lost jobs and increased burdens of care at
home, women have fared worse economically than men.
According to data from the International Labour Organization, a United
Nations agency, globally women have suffered more job losses related to
the
pandemic than men. About 5 percent of women in 2020 lost work, which could mean
losing a job or experiencing reduced hours, compared with 3.9 percent of
men.> Read more here:
https://www.voanews.com/africa/international-womens-day-marked-increased-hardships-women
<DW made for minds
Opinion: International Womens Day is a day of mourning for Africa
March 8th. marks International Womens Day , an occasion that is meant to
be a global celebration. But, with more and more women suffering each
day, there is little to rejoice in Africa, DWs Mimi Mefo writes.> Read
more here:
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-international-womens-day-is-a-day-of-mourning-for-africa/a-56787798
<THE LOCAL Fr
Strike calls in France on International Womens Day.
Men and women are being called on to finish work at 3.40pm on Monday to
highlight the gender pay gap, one of many actions and demonstrations
taking place around France to mark International Womens Day.
Several organisations and unions are calling for a strike to denounce
pay inequality.
On March the 8th, we will be on strike along with women all over the
world to refuse to pay the price of the crisis with our jobs, our
salaries, our
bodies several unions including the CGT, FSU and Solidaires said in a
press conference.
The objective is to denounce the gender pay gap that continues to impair
womens rights, but also to denounce the unfair burden that the past
years
health crisis has put on women.> Read more here:
https://www.thelocal.fr/20210308/strike-calls-in-france-on-international-womens-day/
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2020:
Editors note: I know you may think some of this is
old news
but please do read what you can
if only out of respect for and to honour and remember the victims.
Gino di Artali, hardcore feminist and chief editor cryfreedom.net
Al Jazeera June 5 2020
Nigerians take to streets to protest against sexual violence
Demonstrators in Abuja demand <justice> after a series of high profile
rape cases sparked outrage in the country.
Human rights campaigners have rallied in Nigeria its capital to raise
awareness about violence against women after a series of high profile
rape cases sparked an outcry in the country.
More than 200 protesters marched around police headquarters in Abuja,
chanting slogans and holding banners that read <Justice for all Nigerian
girls and women> and <No means no>.
It was one of many activities planned by campaigners to call attention
to the issue and urge politicians to allocate more funds to tackle
sexual violence and ensure police independence.
The latest outpouring of anger has been unleashed by the cases of three
women and girls who were killed or raped in incidents activists say
showcase the widespread sexual violence in Nigeria.
JusticeForUwa has been one of the hashtags trending on social media in
the last week after Vera Uwaila Omosuwa, a 22-year-old student, died two
days after she was reportedly raped in a church in the southern city of
Benin.
<Children are dying, women are dying, enough is enough,> Dorothy
Njemanze, one of the protest organisers, was quoted as saying by Reuters
news agency.
Njemanze said she and other campaigners were <watching every step of
everything the politicians say and do on sexual based violence>.
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/5/nigerians-take-to-streets-to-protest-against-sexual-violence
Al Jazeera Otober 10 2020
<I am tired of it>: Femicides spark outrage across Guatemala
Women are protesting this weekend in the Central American nation after
recent murders fuel sorrow and calls for action.
By Sandra Cuffe
Guatemala City, Guatemala –Women are leading protests against gender
violence and femicides this weekend in Guatemala, where the recent
murder of a university student has sparked sorrow, outrage, and calls
for action.
<It made me scared and sad,> said Sofia, a 20-year old law student who
asked that her last name not be used, at a protest Saturday in Guatemala
City, where she carried a sign with names of murdered women.
<I know what it feels like to live in fear and I am tired of it,> she
told Al Jazeera.
More than 200 women were killed in the first eight months of this year
in the Central American nation, and more than 3,000 women and girls have
been killed since 2015, according to human rights groups tracking
government statistics.
The overwhelming majority of the cases remain unsolved.
Social work student Litzy Amelia Cordon, 20, was abducted Monday and her
body was found the next day in Teculutan, a municipality 130km (80
miles) east of the capital. Primary school teacher Laura Daniela
Hernandez, 22, was murdered there the week before.
Hundreds of women of all ages marched for justice Wednesday in Teculutan,
and demonstrations are now spreading around the country.
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/10/i-am-tired-of-it-femicides-spark-outrage-across-guatemala
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INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2019:
BBC NEWS
March 8 2019
<In pictures: International
Womens Day around the globe>
Excellent page!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-4749967
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Read also
Womens International Day 2020 , an
article by cryfreedom.net
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