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Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, talks about peace and a feminist foreign policy
“The empowerment of women and girls is a true example of smart politics,” said Margot Wallström, Sweden’s Foreign Minister. “Gender equality is not only about women’s rights but is a matter of ensuring peace and security for all,” she said, explaining that this is the starting point, the platform on which her country’s feminist foreign policy is based.
May 2016 WCLAC News Bulletin
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WOMAN with Gloria Steinem investigates violence against women in El Salvador
A new episode of the Viceland TV series “WOMAN” with Gloria Steinem takes an unflinching look at femicide – the deliberate murder of women just because they are women – in El Salvador, the country with the highest murder rate in the world. It features ORMUSA: the Organization of Salvadoran Women and new partner of Donor Direct Action.
Salvadoran women join Donor Direct Action
ORMUSA – the Organization of Salvadoran Women – becomes the 14th front-line women’s rights activist organization and the first from Latin America to partner with Donor Direct Action.
In the world’s most violent country, a place women can seek shelter
“It is, frankly, terrifying to be a woman in El Salvador” according to this BuzzFeed article which looks at Ciudad Mujer, a place for women to find respite from the county’s rampant violence. “The violence that women in El Salvador face is more lethal now,” comments Silvia Juárez of our partner organization, the Organization of Salvadoran Women for Peace (ORMUSA)..
Read the full BuzzFeed article.
Gloria Steinem’s new show links global instability to violence against women
An all-woman team of journalists for the Viceland TV show “WOMAN”, looks at what this violence means to the women themselves and the stories of people who are pushing back against the oppression women face. An episode on femicide in El Salvador features our partner, the Organization of Salvadoran Women, ORMUSA.
Read the full salon.com article with a clip from the episode.
Femicide
Femicide – the deliberate murder of women just because they are women – is common in El Salvador. On average, a woman was murdered every 15 hours during 2015.
The evidence about prostitution that The New York Times ignored
DDA partner, Rachel Moran of SPACE, supports decriminalizing prostitution – but not in the way advocated by the recent New York Times article.
Stop punishing Afghan women for ‘moral crimes’
“There are many discussions going on over the use of virginity tests and punishing women for moral crimes. Although it is known that both are human rights violations, they are being practiced in Afghanistan,” says Najia Karimi, Executive Director of the DDA partner organization Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan.