According to Variety , at the premiere of director Ali Abbasi s female-centred thriller, roughly 12 women in formal wear gathered on the famed stairs of the Palais with raised fists, filling the space with thick black smoke and holding a scroll with a list of 129 women s names.
The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway at night in northern Mexico has ended in sorrow, with her decomposing body found in a subterranean water tank. The story of Debanhi Escobar made headlines because of a photo taken by a driver who was supposed to take her home
In their traditional costumes, women from the community of Yampupata, in the Bolivian Altiplano, learn self-defense, taekwondo techniques and resources to anticipate male violence. They run workshops of the group Warmi Power (Women with Power) to combat femicide and machismo in Bolivia, where almost 8 out of 10 women suffer violence in their lifetime.
3 March 2021, 17:00 UTC
Mexican authorities repressed women who were peacefully protesting against gender-based violence in 2020, violating their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly by using unnecessary and excessive force, arbitrary detentions and even sexual violence, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
The (r)age of women: Stigma and violence against women protesters analyzes five protests that women and feminist groups carried out against gender-based violence last year in the states of Guanajuato, Sinaloa, Quintana Roo, the State of Mexico and Mexico City.
“The violent response of the various authorities to the women s protests violated their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. During the arrests and transfers, police officers spoke to the women using violent and sexualized language, threatened them with sexual violence and subjected them to physical and sexual violence. Many women did not know where they were, wh