MSOpinion Barred from the streets, Cubans mark Women’s Day online “Red Feminina demands on its website ‘a gender law,’ which would require official records and generate public policies against gender-based violence”
“Red Feminina demands on its website ‘a gender law,’ which would require official records and generate public policies against gender-based violence”Taking to the streets to make your voice heard on International Women’s Day is a right taken for granted in most countries. Not in Cuba.
The Federation of Cuban Women does organize activities, mostly in businesses and schools, but it is linked to the government.“Demonstrating publicly to demand transformative policies from a gender point of view, is the focus worldwide every March 8, except in Cuba,” Red Femina wrote on Twitter on February 20, inviting Cubans instead to join a “Virtual March.
But the collective turned down a request for an in-person interview given the “singular risks of the repressive Cuban context.” “I want my daughter to appear, alive or dead, however she is, that justice be done,” Isis Rodriguez told AFP about her daughter, Madeleisis Rosales, who disappeared in central Havana in May 2021, aged 16.
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