We do not regard sexual violence as an individual fate, but as an expression of structural violence and discrimination against women and girls, in which sexuality is used as a means of demonstrating power, humiliation and subjugation.

 

Boundary violations based solely on gender are familiar to all women. We encounter them in many forms: Catcalls, verbal pick-up on the street, remarks about breasts and buttocks, ridicule, telephone terror, all the way to sexual violence and rape.

 

Sexual violence means for every woman and every girl a violation of her personality and physical integrity. The will of another person is imposed on her by force - and this in the extremely sensitive area of her sexual autonomy.

 

We want to be part of a culture of looking and advocate for the abolition of violent structures and any kind of discrimination, as well as the social ostracism of sexual violence as a violation of human rights.