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Spanish far-right threatens feminist advances

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‘The Guardian’ reports on Vox’s attempts to curtail the right to abortion in Castilla y León

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/15/spain-far-right-vox-castilla-y-leon

** Where does it end?’ Far-right’s gains raise fears for LGBTQ+ freedoms in Spain

** Rights groups in region where Vox is in government warn voters in run-up to snap general election

Ashifa Kassam (@ashifa_k)

Valladolid, Castilla y León

Sat 15 Jul 2023

Pride celebrations have long been a small but raucous affair in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid. Setting off from a singular triangle-shaped plaza, a dozen drummers lead hundreds through the narrow streets of the largest city in Castilla y León.

But this year – after the region became a showcase for the far right’s first foray into Spanish government since the Franco dictatorship – the shift in tone was palpable.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina (GE) defiende construir puentes para hablar con…

Nadezhda Azhgikhina (GAMAG Europa) aboga por evitar “tácticas de miedo para cancelar la cultura rusa y a todos los rusos”

*** “Millones de rusos están excluidos del mundo, al mismo tiempo que se enfrentan a presiones sin precedentes dentro de Rusia. Si esta práctica continúa, los occidentales no podrán encontrar a nadie con quien hablar en Rusia”, advierte.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina (GE) defends building bridges to talk with…

Nadezhda Azhgikhina (GAMAG Europe) stands for avoiding “scare tactics of canceling Russian culture and all Russians”

*** “Millions of Russians are banned from the world, while simultaneously facing unprecedented pressures inside Russia. If this practice continues, you Westerners won’t be able to find anyone to talk with in Russia”, warns.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina, member of the GE’s Coordination Committee, talks about journalism and feminism with Jackie Abramian –also committed to women’s equality and empowerment– in a long interview published by ‘Ms.’, a magazine that has been for more than 50 years at the forefront of feminist journalism.

For a feminist journalism, for a dignified journalism

Feminist Journalism, Dignified Journalism

GAMAG EUROPE

Valência (Spain) 20-06-2023

Facing the new political and institutional shift in Valencia, where the far-right has reached the power in the Regional government, the Group of Women Journalists and Photojournalists Les Beatrius advises the media and their management on:

1. Bearing in mind what has been achieved through the efforts and mobilization of feminism and that is already included in the legal texts: gender-based violence is NOT domestic violence. Our stories must banish and denounce the denialism of this structural problem.

DECLARATION ON IRAN

DECLARATION

GAMAG stands with Iranian women and girls for their freedom and right to equality

Appalled by the brutal repression of the protests in Iran against the theocratic regime, led by women under the slogan “Zan, zendegi, azadi” (“Women, life, freedom”), the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG):

Stands in solidarity with Iranian society, particularly the women leading the ongoing, justified protest against the regime’s systematic violations of human rights under the slogan “Zan, zendegi, azadi” (“Women, life, freedom”)