Category Archive For "Voices"
#CSW65: The criminalization of a pandemic – a feminist analysis
WAVE is joining the CSW65 events and attended the panel discussion “The criminalization of a pandemic – a feminist analysis”. At the event, members of RESURJ and the Vecinas Feministas por la Justicia Sexual y Reproductiva en América Latina presented their recently published survey report “The Criminalization of a Pandemic: A Cross-Regional Feminist Analysis”. The …
#CSW65 – Power Up! Gender Justice for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in sub-Saharan Africa
WAVE is joining the CSW65 events and attended the meeting “Power Up! Gender Justice for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in sub-Saharan Africa — The ‘Education Plus’ Initiative”. The meeting was convened by UNAIDS in collaboration with UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN Women and co-hosted by the Governments of Benin and Luxembourg. The high-level advocacy …
International Women Human Rights Defender’s Day
On 29 November 2020, International Women Human Rights Defender’s Day, the Civil Society Strengthening Platform (CSSP) project partners and WAVE Youth Ambassadors from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia got together for a second time to fortify the collaborative efforts from their first action and put an emphasis on the need for intergenerational collaboration. …
Umbrian Feminists Resist Restrictions on Abortion: “We are the Granddaughters of the Witches Who Have Not Been Burned!”
In Italy, access to abortion is regulated by law 194/78. As we know, the backlash against the reproductive rights of women by the radical right is getting harder. In some cases this occurs by effectively canceling the right to abortion, in others by manipulating the laws and taking advantage of easily attackable guidelines approved in …
Announcement: The 2nd generation of WAVE Youth Ambassadors
WAVE jury has made the selection for 14 candidates to become the next WAVE Youth Ambassadors. The following candidates have been chosen: Sabiha Azad from WALES (UK) Mia Bradić from CROATIA Ginevra Candidi from ITALY Alina Cebotari from MOLDOVA Çeçilia Gazulli from ALBANIA Myrto Karydi from GREECE Krisztina Les from HUNGARY Alexandra Muntean from ROMANIA …
Portuguese Court of Appeal: “The adulterous Woman”
In October 2017, the Porto Court of Appeals (Tribunal da Relação do Porto) upheld the year-long suspended sentence of two men convicted of assaulting a woman in 2015. The woman’s former partner and her former husband kidnapped her and beat her with a nail-spiked bat. The judges justified their light sentencing by saying that the …
WAVE CALL FOR YOUTH AMBASSADORS 2020
We are looking for the 2nd generation of WAVE Youth Ambassadors. Since October 2018, the WAVE Youth Ambassadors support the Step Up! Campaign in mobilizing and encouraging young people to raise awareness of the human rights violation that is violence against women and girls. Do you want to be part of a conscious, open-minded and …
The Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Have we made some Progress?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. (WHO, 2010). The terms ‘female circumcision’ and ‘female genital cutting’ are also used to refer to FGM. These procedures, …
What about Iranian women and football?
Remembering Sahar Khodayari, the “Blue Girl”. Sahar Khodayari committed suicide on 9th September of 2019 at the age of 29 years old. She immolated herself after knowing that she could have spent from 6 months to up to 2 years in prison for being dressed as a man while trying to enter the Azadi Stadium in Tehran on March 2019. What is the current situation in Iran when it comes to …
On Anger and Feminism
The words “angry” and “feminist” are often lumped together as a derogation of a supposedly radical group arguing for ‘feminine domination.’ It gets flung as an insult and aims to aggravate the accused. As feminists, we must repurpose this intended insult, this deliberate misunderstanding of our cause — which is one of passion, fairness and …
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