Global Roundup: Kyrgyzstan Protest vs Bride Kidnappings, Chinese Road Tripper Challenges Gender Norms, Egyptian Woman Teaches Muay Thai, Album by Women in Ghana “Witch Camps”, Non-binary Cree Artist
Global Roundup: Kyrgyzstan Protest vs Bride Kidnappings, Chinese Road Tripper Challenges Gender Norms, Egyptian Woman Teaches Muay Thai, Album by Women in Ghana “Witch Camps”, Non-binary Cree Artist
Compiled by Samiha Hossain Bride kidnapping remains widespread in the former Soviet republic despite official pledges to crack down on it [Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters] The recent murder of a woman abducted for marriage in Kyrgyzstan and the police’s inaction towards bride kidnappings and femicide have culminated in hundreds of people rallying in front of the Kyrgyzstan’s interior ministry and demanding for the interior minister and city police chief to resign.
This breaks my heart. Which has been broken so many times before by #maleviolence