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The Aachen Peace Prize for Feminist Antiwar Resistance (FAS)

Proposed by Sissy Vovou Today (1st September) Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS) together with the Foundation for Human Rights Defenders receive the Aachen Peace Prize. FAS members and activists will perform during the award ceremony with their faces covered out of solidarity with the anonymous activist women of the movement currently in Russia. About 20 people …

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Iran’s jailed rights advocate Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Proposed by Alexia Tsouni Narges Mohammadi is honoured for her fight against ‘the oppression of women’ in Iran at ‘tremendous personal costs’. Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and relentless fight for social reform. While …

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Women’s Court: feminist approach to justice – Foča case

Women’s Court – a space for women’s testimonies on their experiences of injustice suffered during the war and in peace – instead of objects of injustice and violence, women become subjects of justice. Women’s Court – feminist approach to justice – makes visible the continuity of injustice and violence against women, both in war and …

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Taiwan’s last known ‘comfort woman’ dies aged 92

Posted by Sissy Vovou Campaigners vow to continue fighting in memory of the ‘grandmas’ – an estimated 2,000 Taiwanese women sexually enslaved by Japan’s military Taiwan’s last known survivor of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, according to the island’s foreign ministry, which called the issue a “wound in human …

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