Tributes to Diego Maradona show how easily violence against women is ignored

Sent from Sissy Vovoy Too often we’re in denial about the fact that heroes – such as Maradona and Sean Connery – might also be abusers An image commemorating Diego Maradona in Naples, Italy, November 2020. Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP Fri 27 Nov 2020 13.52 GMT  Imagine a man hitting his partner. The picture that comes to …

25 November: No to the police violence against women

Article, by Sissy Vovou A different 25th of November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The small meetings which some of the feminist-women’s organisations had prepared, were turned into massive arrests, after hours of waiting in the police Station of Syntagma. 14 persons-women were taken to this specific Police Station (adducted), from …

Equal pay essential to build a world of dignity and justice for all, UN says, commemorating first International Equal Pay Day

20/9/2020 Sent by Sissy Vovoy UN Women/Piyavit Thongsa-Ard – A migrant worker sews clothes in a factory in western Thailand. Working more than 12 hours a day, with overtime, they earn less than the minimum daily wage, leaving them with barely enough money for rent, food, or savings. 18 September 2020 – The United Nations is marking the …

FEMINIST WOMEN CONTINUE CALLING FOR MORE POLITICAL ACTION, PROTECTION, JUSTICE, ON HIGH VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – SEIZE CONTROL OF A FEDERAL BUILDING

Sent by Sissy Vovoy By KATE LINTHICUM – SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 MEXICO CITY — Dressed in black hoods and armed with spray paint, the women stormed into Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission and seized control. They evicted government workers, ripped paintings of revolutionary heroes from the walls and declared that from now on, the federal building in downtown Mexico …

Brazil Announces Equal Pay for Women’s and Men’s Football Teams

Sent by Sissy Vovoy Brazil’s football federation announced on Wednesday it will pay men and women the same amount for representing the national team, one of the few countries to make such a pledge. “The CBF has equalled the prize money and allowances between men’s and women’s football, which means the women players will earn …