STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

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Today, is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. FEMEN wishes to reiterate that the fight against patriarchal femicide takes place everyday.

Violence is not just physical, violence has many faces and different mechanisms to sneak into women's life. From acid attacks to laboral discrimination. Patriarchal violence isn't just about bumps or bruises, insults, is also about earn less money in a job for being a woman, being object of sexist compliments, is about the feminization of poverty, or being discriminated because of sexual orientation or origin.

Everyday violence against women is embodied in death, contempt and discrimination. We are facing a kind of terrorism that patriarchy and the society does not condemn because it is a direct product of its existence: patriarchal terrorism.

Religion, moral codes, stereotypes and gender roles, the economic system and the impoverishment of women, help to increase the violence towards women. Violence(s) because attacks are plural, because they are multiple: structural, political, laboral, sexual identity, religious, familiar, reproductive...

STOP kill women because they are women
STOP be ATTACKED for being women
WE HAD ENOUGH PATRIARCHAL terrorism.