Tag: Feminism

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 12:21 UTC

  Argentina, Nicaragua pull out ambassadors as diplomatic tension grows

  

  In a local replica of the #MeToo movement, actress/model Thelma Fardin last week announced with the backing of radical feminist groups that she had been abused by actor Juan Darthes while on tour in Nicaragua. At the time of the alleged abuse in 2009, Fardin was 16 and therefore a minor. Darthes has already been “buried alive” and any show or commercial ad with his face has been removed from national TV.

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 16:03 UTC

  Feminists oppose renaming Chile's main airport after Pablo Neruda

  

  As the project to rename Santiago's international airport is back under the spotlight, feminist groups have brought the attention to the fact that 1971 Literature Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda is not worthy of that honour.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Women’s economic empowerment discussed at OAS with Ivanka Trump

  

  The Inter-American Council for Integral Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) today organized a meeting that featured Secretary General Luis Almagro, White House Advisor Ivanka Trump and the President and CEO the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Ray W. Washburne, to discuss “Financial Empowerment of Women for the Sustainable Social and Economic Development of the Americas.”

• Thursday, June 7th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  “Feminist cabinet” in Spain, 11 of 17 women ministers including defense, economy and finance

  

  Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has given 11 of his 17 cabinet posts to women, a higher proportion than anywhere else in Europe. A self-styled feminist, Sánchez' choice was in marked contrast to the male-dominated executives of ex-PM Mariano Rajoy, ousted last week.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

  Brigitte Bardot calls the MeToo movement “hypocritical and ridiculous”

  

  French film legend Brigitte Bardot attacked the #MeToo movement on Wednesday, claiming that actresses who complain of sexual harassment were just looking for publicity. “The vast majority are being hypocritical and ridiculous,” she told the French magazine Paris Match.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Women to the rescue of men: don't fall into a “Puritanical” witch hunt

  

  Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is among 100 women who signed an editorial Tuesday in French daily Le Monde, criticizing the current #MeToo movement for restricting sexual freedom.