Mujeres de Negro Madrid

  TP Disarmament Camp Images 11th July 2017 This day has been commemorated since 1982 in remembrance of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp against the use of nuclear weapon. Women in Black against War join this commemoration because we believe that wars are a crime against humanity, which harms mostly women. On this day, we encourage the citizenry to reflect on the causes of war. If we want to avoid wars, we must take action on the factors that are their breeding ground and work for a world that is safer and kinder in which we can live in peace and develop the human values of solidarity, justice and equality in duties and rights. As recognized by the United Nations, and as we have learned from the current pandemic, safety is not provided by the armies or the forces of law and order. We should be talking about food security, environmental, community and economic security, etc. From our beginnings, Women in Black against wars have been working for a world without violence i...

January 30, School Day of Nonviolence: Wars are Prepared Day by Day From the standpoint of our feminist, anti-militarist and nonviolent ideology, Women in Black against war believe that war is not innate to the human being, rather it is a cultural response developed and fed by sundry powers. Being a learned response, we can also unlearn it. It is not enough to be against violence and war, one must analyze the causes that produce them in order to be able to avoid them. The tendency of our governments to maintain the privileges of the most favored with walls and fences; illegal returns of those without papers; refusal of asylum, violating signed international laws; denial of the universal right to health services; stigmatization of emigrants because of the notion that they take away jobs or consume our resources and the reversal in the rights of women are the way to promote values that respond to a social model of violence fomenting fear and disdain for people who are different...