Demo in Zurich against femicides – Thousands demonstrate in Zurich against violence against women
Thousands demonstrate in Zurich against violence against women
The collective «Ni Una Menos» has called for Switzerland-wide demos against violence against women today. The demo remained peaceful.
They demonstrate because they are sad. Because they’re angry. And whurry they are ugly. More than 1000 people gathered on Helvetiaplatz today, Saturday, to demonstrate against violence against women.
There were many women among those present, many young. Mothers with children have also come. Different groups and politicians are represented, among othersn also die National Councilornen Tamara Funiciello (SP) and Katharina Prelicz-Huber (Green).
The atmosphere in the square is peaceful, a small Fiat is broadcasting feminist hip-hop and world music. Women and men dance.
Shortly before three o’clock, the participants started walking towards Stauffacher. They chant: “The streets of Zurich are ours today!” The crowd has meanwhile grown to more than 1500 people. Many wear masks.
On Sihlstrasse, the first motorists were losing patience and honking their horns, but the crowd gave them stinky fingers and hoots.
Yilmaz, 30, comes along because as a man he wants to defend women’s rights. Jeanne and Emilia, both 15 and schoolgirls, are here because women in Switzerland still have fewer rights than men and to demonstrate against femicides. A woman who only wants to speak anonymously says that she was personally affected by a femicide three years ago. Your flat share partner came to support you in your protest.
“This demo will make a difference in people’s minds.”
Tamara Funiciello said that politicians are doing far too little against violence against women and that they are doing too slowly. You are constantly fighting for better conditions in parliament, submitting proposals and then it takes half a year for anything to happen. She is the original of the size of the demo: “That will make a difference in people’s minds.”
On Bahnhofstrasse, all names of the victims and the places where the femicides occurred are read out to commemorate the women. The demonstration train has turned in front of Paradeplatz and has now arrived back at Helvetiaplatz.
The police hiels himself B.II was colloquialm background. The demonstration was peaceful.
25 femicides, 11 attempts this year
Demonstrations against femicides are taking place in various cities this Saturday. The whole thing is organized by Alliance “Ni Una Menos»that campaigns against gender-based violence.
As the collective writes in a press release, 25 women have already been victims of femicide this year. 11 women survived an attempted femicide. In Zurich–Altstetten only became a 30-year-old woman in mid-October from her separated husband killed.
“Together we take to the streets to make our grief and our protest visible: We think of the victims of femicides and the bereaved, of the survivors of attempted femicides and gender-based violence and of all those currently affected by violence,” says the message .
Femicide is not an isolated case, but an expression of structural violence, the basis of which is the patriarchal balance of power. The lives and health of women would be placed under massive threats through flight, displacement, war and genocide, institutional and domestic violence.
The alliance demands, among other things, that. The term femicide IS officially recognized that-Hours-Consultation will be set up for those affected.
Thomas Wyss’ Media career began in 1989 while studying as a nocturnal “Tagi” newspaper seller. In 2004 he was part of the founding team of the «Bellevue» site, and since then he has been reporting on Zurich city life in all shapes and colors.
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