Our Position Facing the Current Conflicts In recent months, we have been observing with worry the intensification of many conflicts: the conflict between Palestine and Israel, Russia and Ukraine, the civil war in Syria, increase in tensions in Iraq… conflicts which also are engaging the interest of the media because these conflicts affect the West […]
Women against the First World War (1914-1918) Women in Black of Madrid remember the Cassandras of the Great War: Bertha von Suttner worked to avoid another war, any war. Her novel Lay Down Your Arms is an appeal for peace and describes the horrors of armed confrontation. She founded the Austrian Society for Peace in […]
No to the war in Ukraine! Women in Black are organizing a vigil in black and in silence for 24 May 2014 at 1:00 p.m. in the Plaza of the Republic of Belgrade, with the title “No to the war in Ukraine”. Women in Black condemn the military actions and violence in Ukraine, whose victims […]
IMMIGRATION IS NOT THE PROBLEM “… As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf Women in Black of Madrid want to denounce the migration policies of the European Union and especially those of the government of Spain. Africa is bleeding because of wars, famine and […]
AGAINST THE WAR IN SYRIAFOR A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT Women in Black of Belgrade and Madrid denounce the indifference with which a great part of the West is reacting to the war unleashed in Syria. When it presented itself, we denounced that the supposed guardians of democracy that rose up as saviors of […]
January 30th, School Day of Nonviolence and Peace in Spain Nonviolence and repression The School Day of Nonviolence and Peace has been celebrated in Spain every January 30th since 1964. On this day, we celebrate the death of Gandhi, defender of peaceful struggle against injustice, whose nonviolent practices were followed in India by millions of […]
