In Photos: ‘Fed Up Of Being Fed Up’ – Protestors March In Valletta For Women’s Day
Dozens of people marched in Valletta for International Women’s Day yesterday, protesting the institutional injustice women in Malta still face to this day.
This year’s theme was the point that women are deprived of the justice they deserved.
“Malta isn’t a society built on social justice. It is a patriarchal society, dominated by men in every sense of the word and where women are disadvantaged, despised, humiliated, tempted, raped, abused, exploited and even assassinated,” activist and lecturer Angele Deguara said during a speech outside the courts.
Many protestors held placards with names of women who were brutally murdered in Malta in recent years, including Sion Grech, Paulina Dembska and Bernice Cassar.
Some activists laid outside the courts, holding tomb headstones that read “the court delays killed me”, and “the filed police report was useless”, echoing the institutional failure experienced by many women.
“We want institutions that work seriously to have a fairer society,” Deguara said.
“We don’t want to attend more vigils of women killed by their partners, we don’t want to ask to have the right to make decisions about our bodies and about our health, and we do not want to see more women suffering the consequences of systems that are inefficient, insensitive, and incompetent, and which don’t care about what women go through every day.”
“We want justice in every social field, especially in institutions that are supposed to uphold justice. How long do we have to wait?”
“Because now we are fed up with being fed up.”
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