A woman, bare-chested painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag with the words in English “stop raping us” and blood-red panties, burst onto the red carpet of the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Friday, journalists found.
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The action had not yet been claimed. The security services quickly put her aside.
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The European Parliament condemned at the beginning of May the use of sexual violence as a “weapon of war” in Ukraine, invaded by Russia, and called on the countries which welcome women fleeing this country to give them access to gynecological care, contraception and to abortion.
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AFP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced in mid-April “hundreds of cases of rape” observed in areas previously occupied by the Russian army, “including underage girls and very small children”.
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AFP
Testimonies reported by the media corroborated from mid-April the fears of NGOs which reveal indications of the use of rape as a “weapon of war”.
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AFP
