A music video to start:
[Creation of the] mural "Flying in sorority", by Mexican artist Adry del Rocío [in] Mexico City within the framework of the Generation Equality Forum.SEE THE NEWS ITEM BELOW! The mural was curated and produced by Street Art for Mankind in collaboration with UN Women … part of the #MuralesGeneraciónIgualdad that will be unveiled in Mexico City, Paris and New York. [del Rocio held] a creative inspiration workshop with a group of 15 feminists, from girls and adolescents to women of legal age [to capture the essence of an inter-generational feminist movement] in which the legacy of women is recognized [in] the struggles for rights, and hope placed in the vision of an egalitarian future built together with the girls and adolescents of this generation.
Onward to the newses, right after this:
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Reuters Fndn“If he hits you, he loves you... myths and violence.”By Farai Shawn Matiashe
 MUTARE, Zimbabwe June 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "If he does not hit you, he does not love you enough" is the sort of age-old 'truism' that Zimbabwe activists say gives men free rein to beat their wives and stops women complaining. But things are now changing, according to women's rights activists, albeit slowly and from a crashingly low base. At least one in three women in Zimbabwe encounters physical violence, most at the hands of a husband or partner - a grim statistic that has only worsened in lockdown as domestic tensions play out around the clock and behind locked doors... |