Say NO to VAW

Up to 7 in 10 women will be beaten, raped, abused or mutilated in their lifetime. Violence against women and girls is the most pervasive human rights violation, but it’s not inevitable. It can be prevented through education and awareness, reduced through better laws and services, and ultimately eliminated.

It is time to act. People are rising, mobilizing everywhere, and governments are committing to improve laws and policies. From 4 – 15 March, the United Nations is convening governments and activists from around the world to discuss strategies to end violence against women and girls at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women.

Harness the momentum with us. Tell everyone you know that they can be part of a global movement to end violence against women.
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Gang Rape in India

A moving story about a woman now 49 reflects on her gang rape experience in India when she was 17. If you read one article, read this one:

How will a teenager participate in the prosecution of her rapist if her family isn’t behind her? How will a wife charge her assailant if her husband thinks the attack was more of an affront to him than a violation of her?

We have spent generations constructing elaborate systems of patriarchy, caste and social and sexual inequality that allow abuse to flourish. But rape is not inevitable, like the weather.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/opinion/after-being-raped-i-was-wounded-my-honor-wasnt.html?_r=1& 

Siminal point of view from another Indian woman on Facebook  

The A Team

Self-explanatory song and video called The A Team
by Ed Sheeran

Stop Gendercide

http://femmophobie.com/2012/12/23/77-100/
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They say hundreds of thousand millions of girls are killed at or before birth as a result of gender preferences. To establish a comparison the numbers are somewhere between 40 and 70,000,000 total people (including women too!) killed during the second world war.

Don't Lose your Sense of Humour

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It's not funny!

Replying ''Don't lose your sense of humour'' when you've insulted someone doesn't turn your insult into a joke.

We also need feminism institutions that hold a clear mandate. Either you work for women or you work for lesbians in cooperation with LGTB. Either you work for women's rights or you work for lesbians' rights. If you think you work for both you gotta realise that you've got a double role, and that one role can interfere with the other. In French human rights are called man rights. So in fact man rights include woman rights. French can be so manly and so counterproductive.

In French the overall swear word for FUCK is PUTAIN=whore. It replaced MERDE=SHIT. It's everywhere in movies, literature, music, dayly talk... You name it. And whether the whores are male or female IT'S WRONG. And it's NOT FUNNY.

16 Days Against Gender Violence

So in Montreal where the massacre took place on December 6, 1989, we celebrate 12 days of activism to stop violence against women. Elsewhere in the world it's actually 16 days! But hey! Just don't bother our self-centered boys too much. They're too busy excluding us and playing amongst themselves.

http://saynotoviolence.org/join-say-no/2012-16-days-activism-against-gender-violence-campaign

http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu/

http://www.unwomen.org/fr/infocus/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-violence/

Even in the rest of Canada it's 16 days!

http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/vaw-vff/index-eng.html

Only in Québec it's 12 days!!!!!!!!

SICK!

Feminist = Lesbian ?

It is totally wrong to systematically identify as lesbians any and all women who are feminists. 

It is just as WRONG to mix women's rights with lesbians' rights all the time.

My point is :
What happens when a woman is the victim of a gay who thinks he can rightfully hate and harass women economically, in the work place? 
Who can she turn to if women's rescue places benefit from gayism that works arm in arm with male chauvinism?

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