Content tagged with women rights

I have never forgotten what stayed with me from that first night in Yerevan: the fact that I felt nothing at all. For a woman, sometimes the greatest freedom is precisely this. I left the restaurant. The night was calm, with a light breeze. I walked home. Without checking over my shoulder. Without quickening my pace. Without wedging my keys between my fingers and turning them into a weapon. Without gripping my phone tightly in my palm so I could call someone immediately if something happened... I simply walked. Yet for women, being able to walk alone at night should not be an extraordinary act of courage but an ordinary human right.

This year, March 8 may be one of the strongest reactions of the women's movement against “one-man” policies of governments. 30 countries responded to the general strike call that was initiated by anti-Trump women's movement in the US. In Turkey, a women's demonstration was held in Istanbul and the “Feminist Night March” will be held on March 8.

98 women were elected to the parliament on June 7, but this number declines to 82 on November 1. Now, the parliament is full of mustaches once again. Women are unhappy because of the unequal representation, but they will carry on struggling for their demands.