Abortion rights

As we walk by the hospital in the early afternoon drizzle, Małgorzata Adamczyk points to an empty parking space across the street. “That’s where they usually park the van with the posters,” she says. There’s nobody there today, but Adamczyk, a local feminist activist, explains that anti-abortion protestors will usually camp out in that lot […]

September sees protests in the Czech Republic and a fight over abortion in Slovakia.

On January 16, a group of women from Macedonia started sharing on social media their personal testimonies of sexual harassment committed by perpetrators in positions of power, using the hashtags #ISpeakUpNow – #СегаКажувам in Macedonian and #TaniTregoj in Albanian. Back then, this was the variation of the #MeToo campaign that gained attention in the Balkans. […]