violence against women
"Women have the fundamental right to participate in decision-making processes that affect them, such as disarmament processes".
Feminist cooperative Almena works on the project ‘Feminist shelter: Let’s transform together’, and its main objective is to contribute to the well-being of women, teenagers and girls applying for asylum on the border between Mexico and Guatemala.
The NGO NouSol works on the 'Empowerment from wisdom' project, thanks to the collaboration of the Hakilisigui Federation, to guarantee women their rights and duties.
Female genital mutilation is a form of physical and symbolic violence that denies the ability to think and decide, to feel and to be, which causes pain and death and sets back those societies that practice it.
The Conferences on Gender Violence and Health has been dedicated to the role of the media in dealing with this global problem with speakers from four continents.
To educate women and end the beliefs that foster sexism and violence, the campaign offers workshops and actions to educate on equality and dismantle the myths of romantic love.
Of all the social injustices we suffer, violence by men is the worst. Worldwide, the leading cause of death for women is violence, ahead of other diseases.
Prohibition of abortion is part of the gender-based violence suffered by women. Violence, in this case, exercised directly by the states.
The situation of women who suffer from male violence worsens during the state of alarm. For this reason, the Catalan Institute of Women and the entities reinforce the resources for victim attention programs.
This social leader and defender of human rights has been denouncing for years murders, arrests and violations of rights towards women in this country.
At a global level, women have a greater presence in associations working on care and services to others, as well as cultural and social ones. But then we see a much lower participation of women in unions or political associations.
We need a Feminist Europe that will safeguard the human rights of women, because we are persons, with the right to live our lives freely, free of violence and in a society where everyone has equal opportunities and free of privileges.
