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Paris (France), Apr 5 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marta Garde) Fifty years ago 343 women in France dared to publicly affirm that they had had an abortion. They were heavily criticised and insulted, but their manifesto, which turns 50 on Monday, broke the silence around abortion and contributed to its decriminalization four years later.FOOTAGE OF THE L'OBS MAGAZINE, WHICH PUBLISHED THE MANIFESTO IN 1971.INTERVIEW WITH CLAUDINE MONTEIL, ONE OF THE SIGNATORIES.TRANSLATION:1.- In France, it is estimated that there were about 800,000 clandestine abortions a year in 1970 and that 5,000 women died from these clandestine abortions.2.- Abortion was the most taboo word in French society. It seemed clear to us that to break this taboo you had to cause a scandal.3.- We decided that there would be both famous and unknown women. They were women of four generations and from all walks of life. All French society was represented in that manifesto.4.- We hoped they would talk about it. The great success of this manifesto is that all French families were forced to talk about it.5.- We managed, without really imagining it at that moment, to shake the walls of the patriarchy.6.- It's been 50 years of me and of us being treated as 'whores', and that word in French is very pejorative7.- This is the cover, it is my old issue of Le Nouvel Observateur from April 5, 1971, and you can see it in the headline "Women who have the courage to sign 'I have aborted'". The word whore isn't there, but the word courage is.8.- Women's rights are never fully achieved.
Kiev, Nov 25 (EFE), (Camera: Sergey Dolzhenko) A group of activists of the feminist group FEMEN protested Wednesday in front of the Ukrainian Parliament on the occasion of the anniversary of the Istanbul Convention and the Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST ON WEDNESDAY IN KIEV.
Asuncion (Paraguay), Nov 12 (EFE).- Five women from Bañado Sur, a popular neighbourhood of Asuncion (Paraguay), are putting the final touches to their first collection of handmade jewels, made out of copper and plastic wires from the country's biggest dumping site.FOOTAGE OF THE WORKSHOP.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be making a lot of firsts when she enters the White House in January. She'll be the first Black, Indian, and South Asian to be Vice President--not to mention the first woman. According to Business Insider, black women and girls across America cried and cheered on news of Joe Biden and Harris's victory. Harris's niece tweeted on Saturday that her 4-year-old exclaimed, 'BLACK GIRLS ARE WELCOME TO BE PRESIDENT!' Pat Duncan is sixty years older, and is the national co-chair of Black Women For Biden in Colorado. She says Harris is a unifying force for America. She just showed that the world, especially the United States, is made up of immigrants, but we come together as one people. Pat Duncan, National Co-Chair Black Women For Biden, Colorado
The wife of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle will make British royal family history as its first member to vote in the US presidential election. The Duchess of Sussex is an American citizen. The couple now resides in Montecito, California, after withdrawing from their working senior royal family member roles. British royal family members aren't banned from voting in British elections. However, Elle reports they are expected not to, in order to remain apolitical. In August, Markle spoke to Marie Claire magazine to talk about why voting is so important to her. She quoted Kate Sheppard, a leader in New Zealand's suffragist movement. 'Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.' That is why I vote. Meghan Markle The Duchess of Sussex
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