17:00 - 19:00
beginning 17.00 - Kassel town hall
- November 2024
International Day Against Violence Against Women and Girls
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Womena
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Demo 17 p.m. from town hall
Call to protest against violence, Oppression and war
meeting point: 17 Clock, Rathaus, Obere Königsstraße, Kassel
The Route is expected to go via the Ständeplatz towards the Elisabeth Selbert statue on Philipp-Scheidemann-Platz, past the main train station via Mayor-Brunner-Straße to Platz der 11 Women lead on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. There will be interim rallies.
Afterwards the Women's Lesbian Center invites you (Goethestr. 44) the demonstrators come together to conclude the event.
Am 25. November Let's take our protest against patriarchal violence to the streets together! We remember the victims of gender-based violence! We stand in solidarity with everyone worldwide, who fight with us for a life in freedom and without violence and war!
No to violence
Violence against women and girls
Violence against women and girls is structural violence, which arises from social conditions and has the goal, To maintain or gain control and power. Women and girls are harassed, beaten, touched without asking, locked up at home, raped, killed. This year, three women are again in the Kassel area (Ex-)Partner murdered. Killing a woman is not a “relationship- or family drama", but a “feminicide” – i.e. h. the killing of a woman, because she is a woman.
Violence against queer people
Today we also want to make it visible, that it is not only women and girls who are affected by patriarchal violence. People, that challenge the binary gender system, by not allowing themselves to be squeezed into the categories of woman or man, such as trans*, inter*, non-binary and agender people, become a target.
Violence against activists
Reactionary ideologies and authoritarian regimes exercise violence against activists and political representatives, who advocate for women's rights and democracy. Resistance and solidarity are growing against this. Since the femicide of Jîna Mahsa Amini by the moral police in Iran, There are repeated protests against the regime and for a life free from violence and oppression. People all over the world are taking to the streets despite the threat to freedom and life. Our international solidarity goes out to you today!
Violence in war
Currently there is 59 wars, Civil wars and interstate conflicts worldwide, the highest number since 1946. (https://de.statista.com)
Our solidarity goes out to all women and girls and queers, who live in areas, in which there is currently war or armed conflict. In all wars, acts of violence against women and girls are specifically used as a war strategy. They are kidnapped, raped, tortured, killed.
Importance of the Istanbul Convention
Not a day goes by in the autonomous women's shelter in Kassel, without a woman seeking help there. Places are missing, Advice centers for victims of violence are overburdened and underfunded and difficult to reach from rural areas. The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - the Istanbul Convention - obliges all signatory states to meet their needs, close to home, generally accessible and appropriate infrastructure, to guarantee protection and support from violence.
To the background
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
The 25. November will be a memorial- and action day since 1981 committed. 1999 It was officially declared an international day of remembrance by the United Nations. It goes back to the case of the Mirabal sisters, the 1960 arrested by the military for her work for women's rights and against the dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, were kidnapped and murdered.
Orange Days (https://orangedaysks.wordpress.com)
The color orange is intended to symbolize a future without violence against women. It was set out in the UN's Orange The World campaign. The Orange Days cover the period from 25. November to 10. December, Human Rights Day.
We demand
An end to violence and an end to looking the other way, Concealing and trivializing!
More protection and help is needed for those affected by violence.
What women, Girls and queers experience violence every day, is patriarchal violence and not a normal condition.
It must be consistently named as such, be denounced and fought against.
We are taking to the streets together in Kassel for a life of freedom without violence and war!
Kassel women's alliance
self-powerful
Frauentreff Brückenhof
Against femicides Kassel
FIF – Women inform women e.V.
Autonomous women's shelter Kassel
LK2 advice center for adults affected by sexual violence