Amnesty International on Iranian women-activists repression

PRESS RELEASE 10-8-2016 Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating to women’s rights to criminal activity, Amnesty International said today. The organization’s research reveals that since January 2016 …

THE EUROPEAN MEETING OF THE WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN

Final declaration,  VIGO on the 27th, 28th and 29th May 2016 We, activist women of the WMW in Europe, gathered in Galicia after several days of reflection, debates and interchanges to address the alarming international situation of wars, attacks from the right wing with coups, the social movements repression, struggles criminalization, murder of activist women, …

The refugee crisis and the representation of women in the media-Greece

Speech of Sissy Vovou in the Mediterranean meeting of Journalists with a gender point of view – Barcelona, 16-4-2016 Greece is in the middle of the refugee crisis that broke out massively in 2015, despite the fact that the issue of refugees and/or migrants was present for decades and escalating. In 2015 alone, there was …