On this International Day of Action Against Violence Towards Women, La Via Campesina is again denouncing the structural violence that women have to confront each day and that has been systematically silenced, made to appear natural, and rendered invisible by patriarchal capitalist society. In 2008, in its Vth Conference, La Via Campesina launched the Global …
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Activists gathered in Belgrade to pay tribute to those who died during the siege and occupation of the Croatian town which fell to Serbian forces 22 years ago. Carrying a banner with the slogan “We will never forget Vukovar”, members of the Serbian campaign group Women in Black gathered on Monday evening in Republic Square …
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Violence against women is omnipresent: at the workplace, at home, in public and on the Internet. The report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published in March 2014 is based on research into direct violence and reveals the magnitude and scale of this kind of violence. One third of all women in …
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STOCKHOLM — At an ocher-color preschool along a lane in Stockholm’s Old Town, the teachers avoid the pronouns “him” and “her,” instead calling their 115 toddlers simply “friends.” Masculine and feminine references are taboo, often replaced by the pronoun “hen,” an artificial and genderless word that most Swedes avoid but is popular in some gay …
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