Category: Gender & Sexuality
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Violence #7: So Called ‘honour’
Source:Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls, A Handbook for Journalist, 2019 Here is an example of this crime. It happened in Pakistan in 2016. Qandeel Baloch. Stopviolence #Womenandgirls #25November #Niunamenos #Lasmariposas #Noexcuse
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Type of Violence: #6
Harassment, sexual assault, and rape are not the same. Join the reading and learn more.
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Violence 5: Gender foeticide and infanticide
This violence practice occur in Asian and Caucasus and the Balkans countries, but it also affects others countries.
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Violence 4: Forced Marriages
Today we are listed the fourth type of violence against women and girls. It is forced marriages. “It refers to the imposition of a marriage on a non-consenting individual (or both of them). This coercion, which can involve violence, physical threats or emotional blackmail, theoretically distinguishes it from ‘arranged marriage’, which involves the consent of…
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Stop Female Genital Mutilation
FGM is a violation of women and girls human rights, shouldn’t be use as a cultural practice excuse.
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Child Marriage
The campaign Unite to End Violence against Women and Girls from United Nations reports that nearly 1 in 5 women age 20-24 were married before becoming 18 years old in the year 2021. Source: Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls, A Handbook for Journalist, 2019 #25november #Stopviolence #Niunamenos #Lasmariposas #Noexcuse
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Types of Violence
According to key facts from the United Nations “one in three women have been subjected to violence at least once in their lifetime”. Source: Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls, A Handbook for Journalist, 2019 #25November #Niunamenos #Stopviolence #Lasmariposas #Noexcuse
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The Butterfly Actions
Standing against women violence here and there.
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October: Breast Cancer Awareness
Be aware and support
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An Immigrant Story about Racism and Ageism in Oulu
In this second part Yve describes the long process she experienced to renew her permanent resident in Finland.
