YABLOKO
conducted an action against violence against women
Press Release
November 25, 2010
On November 25, an action against violence against women took
place in the Pushkin Square, Moscow. The action is held in
the UN decade The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
This an annual action held under the auspices of the United
Nations.
Photo: head of YABLOKO's Gender
faction Galina Mikhalyova and activist Olga Ushakova
Activists from YABLOKO’s Gender faction and
its leader Galina Mikhalyova, the Council for Consolidation
of Women’s Movement, representatives from the Feministki.ru
initiative group participated in the action.
The action was held under the slogans “Husbands, do not beat
your wives!”, “No to family violence!”, “Women, raise your
heads!” According to the participants of the action, 14,000
women die annually due to family violence. These figures commensurate
with Russia’s losses for the ten years of war in Afghanistan."
About 126,000 cases of violence against children are fixed
annually. About 40 per cent of grave crimes are committed
in families, children and women become victims of these crimes
in 70 per cent of these cases. Such data were given in the
leaflets distributed by the activists.
Photo: "Maybe it's time
to stop asserting your power at the expense of women?"
Photo: "Woman has feelings,
not only mobs!"
Photo: "Husbands, stop beating
your wives!"
Photo: "Men, makeup is for
beauty, not for concealing your weaknesses!"
Photo: "Mass scale rapings
[in the Kuschyovskaya village, Krasnodar]. All the rapers
in Kuschyovskaya should be brought to account!"
