The decision by an EU country to grant refugee status to this Brazilian woman is significant for more than one reason. To begin with, it is the first of its kind (at least that we know of). It is also an acknowledgement that the threats and punishment imposed on women who assert their views on sex and gender can amount to persecution and that their lives could be in danger if forced to return to where they came from. Third, it acknowledges that the woman in question did not escape to avoid prosecution for an ordinary crime (as that would normally exclude you from refugee status). It is therefore reflects an understanding of the authorities in the European country of asylum that the charges and the risk of this excessive sentence are function as tools of persecution and not prosecution. https://bird.makeup/users/reduxxmag/statuses/1953166565584572795 View quoted note →

This is horrific and i’m very alarmed by it. It represents the most serious form of online violence against women human rights defenders i have seen a long time. All this because @npub1ccue...mwzv is doing its job in calling out misogyny and violence against females online. I expect and hope all those that have a mandate to act be they State institutions or businesses to put an end to these threats and to the violence.

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A group of women, including survivors, objected to games glorifying rape, incest, extreme sexualised torture and violence against women.

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