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In order to preserve their reproductive rights, future Palestinian mothers use their husbands’ sperm hidden in makeshift test tubes. The Italian photographer Antonio Faccilongo told their stories in the “Habibi” project, winner of the World Press Photo of The Year 2021 and other important international awards.

“If we have such a present and frequent femicide and if the perpetrators are not sanctioned in time or prevented - who cares about 'one less whore who deserved to be tortured, raped, killed and crucified on a pillar of shame and disgrace.” Read more about human trafficking in Montenegro in our interview with activist Aida Petrović.

Until a few decades ago, in Salento, “Italy’s heel”, it was believed that the sting of a poisonous spider induced states of possession that could be cured with a ritual of choregraphic and musical exorcism. The phenomenon mainly concerned women, who, oppressed by a patriarchal and authoritarian society, could vent privations and repressed suffering through catharsis.

The consequences of selective abortions are already reflected in the demographics of the entire Montenegrin society, so today Montenegro lacks thousands of women of reproductive age.

The case of pregnant Mirela Čavajda has rekindled a debate among the Croatian public and decision makers regarding women's rights to make decisions about their own bodies. Medfeminiswiya reports.

Sexual violence in times of war is an “ancient and habitual evil”, wrote Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410 AD. Numerous studies confirm that abuses and kidnappings were already widespread among Neolithic tribes. Over the centuries, the atrocities committed by the armies have maintained the same ferocity. Today, their dissemination still reveals an identical brutality.

Women journalists who came to cover a rally organized by the Islamist movement Ennahdha were faced with sexual insults and misconduct. A strategy of intimidation aimed at dissuading them from returning to the ground and exercising their profession.

Their salaries, their fees, their profits must first serve the projects of men, a condition for keeping their freedom to work.

To this day, tribes impose patriarchal authority on their communities, specifically women, treating girls as nothing more than assets of the tribe. The tribal female then simultaneously becomes the so-called “honor” and “commodity” under different names used to describe what is essentially the same type of marriage: forced marriage, followed by rape.

Lawsuit accuses prominent “We Will Stop Femicides” Turkish group of “illegal and immoral activities” and “disintegrating the family structure under the guise of defending women’s rights”. “Those who should stop femicides try to stop us instead”, WWSF says.