In the context of global, regional and local advocacy, women’s stories and realities–in particular young women’s and adolescents’ realities– are almost always missing from negotiations and decision-making in the hallways of power. Our experiences are often reduced to keywords, trendy concepts, and wordsmithing in resolutions and agreements. And our challenges, successes and experiences, oversimplified in reports and numbers. Our Lived Realities explores women and young people’s experiences in their own voices, and how those conditions affect their autonomy, sexuality, wellbeing, pleasure and decision-making.
Alexa Torres’s case illustrates the difficulties of accessing justice and protection of rights needed to overcome cases of violence. It is one example of the many cases of women in Paraguay that have been victims not only of sexual violence, but of a flawed State justice system.
Read the Arabic version here. It all started on December 7 of 2020, when we woke up to 3 anonymous testimonies accusing a film director of committing several acts of sexual harassment and assault. The alleged events took place in his home, where he lured his victims under pretext of running acting auditions for his […]
South-based feminist news, events, analysis and reflections.
