Tag: Womens rights
a societal scourge that spans the centuries
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, created in 1999 by the UN, particularly resonates on November 25. The Mazan rape affair shocked France and well beyond…
UN calls for “national surge” against sexual violence after rape of little girl
The United Nations made a rare outing to protest the rape and murder of Aïcha Bah, an 8-year-old schoolgirl, in the suburbs of Conakry on November 14. The world organization…
demonstrations against violence against women bring together thousands of people
Throughout France, tens of thousands of people, many women, but also men, marched on Saturday November 23 to demand a “ startle » against violence against women. 4 mins This…
the slow but salutary awareness of sexist and sexual violence in hospitals
In France this Saturday, November 23, gatherings of feminist associations are demanding a comprehensive law to fight against sexist and sexual violence. And the hospital is not spared. Last April,…
Mazan trial: training to raise awareness among health professionals about chemical submission
This is the trial that we are talking about the most at the moment in France: that of the Mazan rapes. Fifty men tried in Avignon and accused of having…
Gisèle Pelicot castigates a “macho” society which must “change its outlook on rape”
In Avignon, the hearings in the Mazan rape trial ended this Tuesday, November 19. Fifty-one defendants were questioned for having raped Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged by her ex-husband,…
the Pelicot children describe “a family destroyed” by the “devil himself”
The hearings end at the Mazan rape trial, in Avignon. Dominique Pelicot, accompanied by 50 co-defendants before the Vaucluse criminal court, is accused of having drugged his wife to rape…
After the election of Donald Trump, the reproductive rights of American women in danger?
Since the Republican candidate’s victory in the White House, the purchase of abortion and morning-after pills has exploded in the United States. For good reason: Americans fear that access to…
the hearing of the 51 accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot is coming to an end
In Avignon, the hearings of the 51 accused in the Pelicot trial end. They appear for having raped Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged without her knowledge by her husband.…
Major work of feminism, “La parole aux negresses” by Awa Thiam reissued in Senegal
For several months, it has been possible to find in bookstores in Senegal a book that had completely disappeared from the shelves. The word of the Negresses by the Senegalese…