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“Gender” has become a highly contentious word in Bulgarian. After a carefully staged moral panic around the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in 2018, it has been appropriated as a term of abuse by politicians and other actors. This has served not only to undermine women’s and LGBTQ rights. (...)
In Poland, something has been broken, something has overflowed. It is the end of’ a certain compromise in Poland. It is not a question of a “compromise on abortion”, because there never was one, but of a much broader systemic compromise : the Grand Compromise between the state and the Church on (...)
Poland has been gripped in recent weeks by a massive strike movement led by women in response to an attempted constitutional ban on abortion. rs21 spoke with several feminist activists in Polish union Inicjatywa Pracownicza about the movement.
rs21: What was the political situation in the (...)
About 100,000 people take to the streets of Warsaw to oppose tightened abortion law
About one hundred thousand protesters took to the streets of the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Friday, in the largest demonstration of popular anger directed against Poland’s ruling rightwing Law and Justice party (...)
Note from LeftEast editors: This text first appeared on the Transnational Social Strike Platform website. It is co-authored by members of the LevFem and Transnational Social Strike Platform collectives. The text reflects key issues discussed during a June 28, 2020 online webinar coordinated by (...)
Polls before Sunday’s elections show women under 30 typically much more liberal than men
Out on the campaign trail before Poland’s parliamentary elections, Jolanta Banach, a leftwing candidate, has noticed a recurring pattern. “There’s a young couple out for a walk with a pushchair, and I approach (...)
Politicians brace for protests over plan to end discrimination over fertility treatments
The French parliament on Tuesday begin a heated debate over Emmanuel Macron’s first major social reform: a law to end discrimination over women’s reproductive rights by allowing lesbian couples and single (...)
Demonstrations across the country come after 19 women were killed by their partners
Protesters took to the streets of more than 250 towns and cities across Spain on Friday night to declare a “feminist emergency” after a series of high-profile rape cases and a summer in which 19 women were (...)
On the 26th of July, Alexandra Măceșanu, aged 15, was declared missing. The teenage girl had been kidnapped 3 days prior from nearby the city of Caracal, in the south of Romania, held against her will and raped by 65-year-old Gheorghe Dincă. Dincă confessed not only to her murder, but also to that (...)
Women are being placed in private properties, where they are forced to pay €250 a week for a shared room, and hand over 50% of what they make from clients
Crime is almost always one step ahead of the law, because a law has to be broken before police can act. And in the seedy underworld of (...)
“But what do they want?” was the question since the first Feminist Conference in June 2018 held in Lausanne and its call for a Women*’s / Feminist strike to be held a year later. On the 14th of June 2019, exactly 28 years after the first-ever women*’s strike in Switzerland, more than half a million (...)
Jürgen Rudloff’s chain of ‘wellness spas’ sold sex as a health service for men. But his business model was fatally flawed – as his trial for aiding and abetting trafficking revealed
Until his dramatic fall from grace, Jürgen Rudloff was the self-proclaimed “brothel king” of Germany. Owner of a chain (...)
In the contemporary world gender equality is often taken for granted, while simultaneously repudiated and vigorously opposed. Poland is no different in this respect. Polish women got suffrage relatively early (in 1918), and the period of state socialism (1945–1989) brought about positive shifts, (...)
On Friday, the 14th of June 2019, hundreds of thousands of women went on strike throughout Switzerland for the second time after 1991. Women of all ages, from all regions and with different employment situations participated in hundreds of protest activities, ranging from putting up banners to (...)
Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’
Hundreds of thousands of women across Switzerland have taken to the streets to demand higher pay, greater equality and more respect, protesting that one of the world’s wealthiest countries continues to treat half its (...)
The feminist women’s strike on 14 June in Switzerland was a real success. Here is the story of how and why it was organized from one of the leading activists.
A feminist strike of an unprecedented scale is being prepared in Switzerland. On the eve of the event, it may be useful to retrace some (...)
“We are not here to parade one day a year, to be one more quota in the spaces of power or to be applauded while we march, while the system that reproduces our oppression remains intact. This is why we resort to the strike: because it is the most powerful tool we have to stop and change (...)
EL PAÍS gender correspondent Pilar Álvarez analyzes Monday night’s pre-election debate, during which the all-male candidates discussed sexual consent, surrogacy and the so-called “tampon tax”
The first women to appear at the pre-election debate on Monday night – in particular on social networks – (...)
The ‘wolf pack’ case inspired widespread anger and protests against sexual assault laws in Spain. But the anti-feminist backlash that followed has helped propel the far right to its biggest gains since Franco.
In the early hours of 7 July 2016, surrounded by throngs of revellers dancing and (...)
Globally connected groups are working together to threaten women’s rights – and they’ve landed in Spain for International Women’s Day.
An international anti-feminist network is organising a rally in Spain on Sunday (10 March) just days after a bus was driven across the country condemning (...)
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