IN Haitistate in a critical situation due to its social and political deterioration, the UN has warned of deteriorating living conditions for women and girls due to gang violence that has displaced thousands of civilians and hampered access to basic social services, exacerbating the precarious situation in the country.
Middle East
In the Middle East, the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) has called on the international community to “invest” in the rights, protection and well-being of women in the Middle East.
Nine thousand Palestinian women killed
The GCHR highlighted the “deaths of more than 9,000 Palestinian women” and more than 30,000 Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombing and siege of the Gaza Strip, although it also condemned the insecurity and lack of women’s freedoms in countries such as Saudi Arabia. , Bahrain, Yemen or Syria.
IN Spain Feminism once again demonstrated its mobilizing power and brought tens of thousands of people into the streets who, despite the divisions in the movement, demanded real equality between men and women.
Support for Palestinian women
Support for Palestinian women and against Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip played a prominent role in several Spanish marches, as in many other countries, especially in the Madrid and Barcelona, The last city to host a Unitarian demonstration included this issue in its official motto: “Women, lesbians and trans. Together against instability, borders and genocide.”
IN Madrid Two historic demonstrations were convened again, organized by the 8M Commission and which, according to the government delegation, gathered 30 thousand people (500 thousand according to the organizers).
And another from the Madrid Feminist Movement (MFM), which rejects trans law, the “erasure of women,” and calls for the abolition of prostitution.
IN Belgiumheart of the European Union, demonstrated in Brussels its demand for more action to achieve gender equality and end sexist violence, during a major feminist march that took place this Friday in the country where the EU’s main institutions are located.
The Belgian team also called on March 8 feminist strike this Friday, supported by the two majority unions in Belgium and supported in Brussels by some public transport company workers, leading to the closure of several metro lines and buses.
IN TürkiyeThe women gathered in the center of Istanbul, despite a huge police contingent that prevented them from reaching their goal – the symbolic Taksim Square.
Complaint sexist violencewhich claims hundreds of lives every year in the Eurasian country, was one of the most chanted slogans at demonstrations and in messages from numerous feminist organizations.
Discrimination against women with disabilities and the fight against premature marriages
IN AzerbaijanA group of activists demonstrated in the capital Baku to demand equal rights, an end to gender-based violence and the release of female journalists jailed in the country.
At the beginning of the action, the police took away several posters with political slogans from its participants and blocked the path of some women to the monument to the poetess Natavan, where the action took place.
Azerbaijani protesters demanded an end to discrimination against women and the application of laws protecting their rights.
They also called for an end to discrimination against women with disabilities and called for a fight against premature marriage. (EFE)