Always Disobedient – Still on the Streets – 25 Year Anniversary of Women in Black

From October 7th to 10th, actions and activities were organized regarding the 25 year anniversary of the founding of Women in Black, Belgrade. In the Centre for Cultural Decontamination on October 7th the exhibit Always Disobedient – On the Same Task was held. At the exhibit, the stage action Personal/Political/International was performed, in which alongside …

Argentina: hundreds of thousands of women set to protest against violence

Report of Uci Goni from Buenos Aires Organizers urge women to stop work and other activities for an hour in Wednesday ‘women’s strike’ following rape and torture of a 16-year-old girl Hundreds of thousands of women in Argentina are expected to join a national protest over violence against women on Wednesday, after a horrifying attack …

Virginia introduces law to stop 12-year-old girls getting married

The effort to update the laws involved Republicans and Democrats Between 2004 and 2013, around 4,500 children under the age of 18 got married in the state of Virginia. Of these girls, more than 200 of them were aged 15 or under. Last week, the authorities in the state introduced new legislation that updated rules …

Iran: 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman faces imminent execution after grossly unfair trial

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – 11 October 2016, 17:21 UTC The Iranian authorities must urgently halt their plans to execute Zeinab Sekaanvand, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman who was arrested when she was just 17-years-old and convicted of the murder of her husband after a grossly unfair trial, Amnesty International said today. She is due to be executed …

Black Protests – Women’s rights in Poland under a huge threat

A protest in Kraków in April 2016 against plans to tighten the law on abortion in Poland. Photograph: Łukasz Kamiński/Agencja Gazeta/Reuters European Women’s Lobby in solidarity with women in Poland! Women organisations in Poland and Europe are reacting strongly against the decision taken by the Polish Parliament on 23th of September to move ahead with …