True freedom of choice instead of #backlash

„Right NOW, it needs a strong Opposition in the name of women*“

Vienna (OTS) – „100 years Ago, women voted for the first Time and moved to the Parliament. There were two Women’s petition with a Million signatures. Nevertheless, Austria still had no Chancellor, no President, of the wage difference between the sexes is about 20 %. The results of the task force on protection from Violence and draw a picture of the right-wing populism and symbolic politics on the backs of the women. Reproductive rights are under attack. There is enough to do. We will keep at it. As a warning voice against the #backlash and as a progressive force for Austria equal opportunities!“, according to the Statement by Lena hunter, project Manager of the women*people desire.

The women*people’s desire, has on 26. February, the first appointment of the equal treatment Committee. 12. In March, four days after the international women’s day, the second and last appointment. Then the claims will be debated again in a plenary session. Project management and Board of Directors do not expect any motions for the concrete implementation of the claim points of the parties.

„We are experiencing not only in the United States, Hungary or Poland, but also in Austria, nationalist and authoritarian shifts, all of which are marked male, traditional gender and family propagate images and women’s rights, and thus human rights. Against this destructive Trend is a broad feminist resistance across national boundaries is formed. The woman people desire is an important part of. We will not allow silence that the government ignored the signatures of nearly half a Million people. That is why we are mobilising experts, organizations, and our aktionistas*, to the Committee next Tuesday to attend,“ says Christian Berger, Board member and spokesperson of the Association.

Lena Hunter
lena@frauenvolksbegehren.at
0664/5146322