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On March 8 in Kiev is the Women’s March (Photo: Vitaliy Kovalchuk / NV)
On March 8, the now traditional Women’s March took place in Kiev. This year, she focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
The procession started at Mikhailovskaya Square in the Ukrainian capital at 1:00 p.m. and ended around 2:30 p.m. at Postal Square.
The main requirements of the participants and participants of the march were:
– Ratification of the Istanbul Convention on the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence;
– Stop cutting social guarantees for those who have lost their jobs;
– Creation of safe working conditions for women working in areas with high risk of COVID-19 infection;
– Guarantee women’s access to all medical and preventive services;
– Opening of state shelters in various regions of Ukraine for women facing domestic violence;
– Fair investigation of cases of violence by far-right organizations.
In turn, the conservative movement Tradition and Order, which opposes the March 8 women’s march and the feminist movement, carried out its own action called «Feminist Rescue Operation ”. One of the movement’s sympathizers was detained by the police, because he was trying to prevent the participants of the march from being on the subway.
During the Women’s March last year, the ratification of the Istanbul Convention was also one of the main demands of its participants and participants. According to the organizers’ estimates, some 3.5 thousand people participated in the event in 2020.
Ukrainian women and Ukrainians have been demanding the ratification of the Istanbul Convention for several years: Ukraine signed a document called the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in 2011 , but it was never approved. .
The document creates a legal basis for the prevention, protection and support of victims of violence, and also defines measures to bring perpetrators to justice.
NV followed the progress of the march in text transmission mode.
14:40. HB ends his text transmission. Thanks for following the action with us.
14:30. The police arrested one of the members of the organization Tradition and Order, who, along with other supporters of this movement, tried to block the entrance to the subway., the NV correspondent informs.
2:25 pm. “We are still here, for the second year now, for some reason we demand the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. Is it really that difficult to go to the Rada and press this button? Is it really that hard ?! This is how we can help you! We will come and do it for you ”, promised one of the organizers at the end of the march.
People were encouraged to take the subway in an organized way., where the trains are already waiting for you, and take off all the party symbols and such.
14:18. The procession has officially ended.
14:12. A column of participants and participants of the Women’s March approaches the Plaza Postal.
14:02. NV journalist Diana Kovaleva managed to get a comment from the leader of the ultra-conservative organization Tradition and Order Bogdan Khodakovsky.… Your movement acts as an opponent of the participants and participants of the Women’s March.
According to Khodakovsky, the promise «pairing T&P members with March participants is «trolling ‘for information purposes.
«Understand that this is just trolling our opponents to create a source of information. It’s clear you won’t really pick anyone up here, but maybe some of the girls will think we have a lot of suitable people, ”she said.
13:52. Some slogans heard in the Women’s March: “Without a uterus, without a voice”; “Flowers for flower beds: rights for women!”; “Don’t stop – ratify”; “My body is my business!”
1:46 pm. The NV correspondent spoke with the opponent of the Women’s March, who arrived at Mikhailovskaya Square together with the organization Tradition and Order.
«The first reason is that I am against abortion. The second reason: the feminism of the third wave is not for … not that women have restricted rights, on the contrary, women have more rights than men ”, she explained.
1:44 pm. The column reached the Plaza de la Independencia.
13:39. “BUntuy, kohai, don’t give me your rights! ”, Sing the participants of the action. HB publishes bMore photos of the Women’s March.
13:28. “We have not yet received a clear answer. [от президента Владимира Зеленского] about what is happening around the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, “said Daria Mizina, an activist with Amnesty International Ukraine, co-organizer of the action, in a comment to NV.
He noted that in the future, AI will carry out further specific actions in support of the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
We will recall, in May 2020, that the UN asked the Verkhovna Rada to speed up the ratification of the Istanbul Convention to Combat Violence. Thus, the organization reacted to the request for ratification of the Istanbul Convention to the President of Ukraine, who received the 25 thousand votes necessary for its consideration.
Last June, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he would ask the Rada to ratify the Istanbul Convention after the Foreign Ministry submitted a proposal.
1:25 pm. A column of participants and participants of the Women’s March began to move towards Pochtovaya Square.
13:22. The participants of the action come with several posters: “Zelensky, where are my rights?”; “The place of a woman where decisions are made”; “Teacher, headmistress, professor – feminities everywhere!” and others.
13:13. The column of participants in the march will move to Pochtovaya Square, after which the police will provide them with safe passage on the subway, NV correspondent Diana Kovaleva reports.
13:10. Participants of the ultra-conservative organization Tradition and Order, who pledged «to match “its members with” feminists. “
They shout anti-feminist slogans.
13:03. Simultaneously with the Women’s March on Kiev in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, a March against domestic violence is taking place.
12:54. The participants of the march unfolded a banner made in the colors of the Belarusian national flag with the inscription «Fight like a Belarusian girl. “
Following the start of protests against the dictatorial regime of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus in the summer of 2020, many participants in the demonstrations were detained and brutally beaten by security forces.
On February 18, a local court sentenced two Belarusian journalists to two years in prison for covering protests.
12:44. The participants and participants of the march, as well as the opponents of the action, begin to gather on Mikhailovskaya Square. An NV correspondent works on the site and reports that a police cordon has lined up around the square.
12:32. Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenskaya refused to participate in and support the 2021 Women’s March, according to the Zaborona article.
«This year [один из организаторов марша, организация] Insight approached First Lady Elena Zelenskaya with the idea of cooperation. She declined participation and support without giving a reason. At the same time, Zelenskaya herself supported initiatives on gender equality and against domestic violence, ”says the March 5 article.
12:25. The organizers of the Women’s March recalled that their main demand is the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, in support of which the campaign was launched.
In particular, posters were posted near the Verkhovna Rada building. «History will forget you if you forget to ratify the Istanbul Convention ”.
And on Instagram, a selfie mask was made available in support of the ratification of the document. The organizers of the event urge you to shoot a story with this filter and mark the official account of the Women’s March on the social network.
12:15. Only 14.4% of Ukrainians perceive March 8 as the Day of the struggle for women’s rights, show data from the Gradus Research opinion poll, which is available to the NV editors. 57.9% of those surveyed consider this date «a spring break, tenderness, femininity. “
38.2% of respondents named on March 8 «a women’s party, when they are given flowers, with no additional meaning ”; and 15% – “the old Soviet holiday”.
At the same time, only 7.3% of those surveyed indicated that on this day they consider it necessary to participate in the March for Women’s Rights, and 5.6% – in the march against stereotypes of the female role. 53.6% of respondents suggested «to give flowers to all the women I know ”.
Speaking about the methods of fighting for women’s rights, Ukrainians called effective: support for programs of legal assistance to women (45.7%); dissemination of information on the rights and methods of protection of women (45.1%); moral support, for example through the #MeToo movement on social media (23.3%); participation in the Women’s March (5.9%); support for feminist movements (4.6%).
The survey was conducted by the research company Gradus Research using a self-completed questionnaire in the Gradus mobile app. The Gradus online panel shows the population structure of cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants between the ages of 18 and 60 by sex, age, settlement size, and region.
Period: March 3, 2021 from 09:35 to 22:30. Sample size: 1000 respondents.
12:08. And in the material below the link NV gives eight facts, why March 8 is the day of the fight for women’s rights.
12:02. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated Ukrainian women on March 8. In his congratulations, the head of state did not mention the protection of women’s rights, but wished «dream, create, inspire and be inspired, reach goals, change the world and remain just as beautiful. “
12:00. NV begins covering the 2021 Women’s March in an online text format.
One hour remains for the start of the procession. The organizers of the march have published a security memorandum.
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