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women’s circle [women behind the lens]
Posted in pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel with tags Ana Elisa Sotelo, femicides, Gender-Based Violence, Lima, Péru, photography, swimmers, The Guardian, UNiTE to End Violence against Women, Women behind the lens on August 9, 2026 by xi'anan upside down year [cover]
Posted in Books with tags 2024, cover, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, French politics, Léon Marchand, Libé, Middle East, Monique Pélicot, New Year's Eve, Paris 2024 Olympics, political crisis, rape, sexual violence, Solidarity with Ukraine, Syrian civil war, UNiTE to End Violence against Women on December 30, 2024 by xi'an
mixed news on the Western [abortion] front
Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags abortion, abortion rights, AfD, anti-abortion organisations, Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Bundestag, Catholic Church, CDU, Center for Reproductive Rights, Europe, far-right, French Constitution, Germany, Italy, Mike Pence, Nazi State, Newspeak, Poland, public health system, The Guardian, Together Against Trump, UNiTE to End Violence against Women, US politics, women's rights on May 6, 2024 by xi'an
In the past weeks, a mix of negative and positive moves about abortion in Europe and the USA (which among other bans resuscitated a 1864 near-total abortion ban in Arizona and saw sad-faced Mike Pence complain in TNYT (!) about mad-hatter and opportunist Donald Trump “retreat from the pro-life cause”):
France has added that “The law determines the conditions by which is exercised the freedom of women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy, which is guaranteed” to the Article 34 of the French Constitution, which is intended to make access to abortion a fundamental right but still remains a formal move as it can be reinterpreted restrictively (which conditions?!) and does not state anything about the practical side of universally ensuring this access, which might be severely hindered by a dearth of willing practicians or the introduction of constraints on clinics, as seen for many years in the US, prior to the revocation of Roe vs. Wade.
Poland has seen its MPs from its lower house vote on four bills on abortion for further study, of which two propose legalising abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy and cancel the current quasi-complete ban on abortion.
Germany Bundestag is working on a bill that would outlaw the intimidation of people around abortion clinics offering abortion. The country should however more much further by making abortion legal, which is not the case now (even though there are “exceptions for abortions with counseling in the first trimester, and for medically necessary abortions [incl. or serious social or emotional distress] and abortions due to unlawful sexual acts”) and actual access to abortion practitioners proves a challenge. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) are unsurprisingly opposing this legalisation.
Italy saw Meloni’s far-right government allowing anti-abortion activists to enter abortion consultation clinics!!, as part of a package of measures funded by the EU!!!. with the [newspeak] argument that they “must not criminalise those who are against abortion. [The Government has] always allowed freedom of conscience on issues of this kind [and] believe it is right for everyone to behave according to their own beliefs and conscience.”
international day for the elimination of violence against women
Posted in Statistics with tags Afghanistan, Armenia, Birmany, discrimination, feminicide, femme vie liberté, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Iran, Israel, Kurdistan, November 25, Palestine, sexism, sexual violence, Ukraine invasion, UNiTE to End Violence against Women, United Nations, Uyghurs, Xinjiang, زن زندگی آزادی on November 25, 2023 by xi'an
[translated from a unified call by dozens of organisations and unions]
On this international day of November 25, in a context of more and more wars, our support goes to all women in the world, the first victims, along with children, of armed conflicts. We particularly show our support for the women of Ukraine, Burma, Palestine, Israel and Nagorno-Karabakh. We loudly proclaim our solidarity with our Afghan sisters kept under the yoke of appalling oppression when the mere fact of going to school becomes a heroic act. We reaffirm our sisterhood with Iranian and Kurdish women revolting for their freedom. We affirm our support to Uyghur women, persecuted and victims of a genocidal policy.
On November 25 we will march to pay tribute to all the victims of sexist violence, women, LGBTQIA+ people, to all those who suffer and struggle. To all those we have lost.ن زندگی آزادی [Women, Life, Freedom]
