Around the World, Lawmakers Push Back Against Feminist Threats to Democracy

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Around the World, Lawmakers Push Back Against Feminist Threats to Democracy

May 29, 2024 – Across the globe, feminism has become a threat to democratic ideals of equal treatment under the law, due process, and the presumption of innocence. Such protections constitute the hallmark of democratic societies. But feminists have been working to create policies designed to exclude men.

In Europe, the totalitarian threat centers around the Istanbul Convention, which insists that domestic violence does not affect males. But numerous studies reveal that European women are more likely than men to be the perpetrators of partner abuse (1).

Earlier this month the European Council approved Directive 2024/1385 that implements the discriminatory Istanbul Convention (2). Ominously, the Directive avoids all mention of “due process” and the “presumption of innocence” (3).

In Australia, homicide incidents have fallen dramatically, dropping by over one-half since 1989. By last year, the toll had fallen to an all-time low of 246 homicides in the entire country — 171 males and 75 females (4). But feminists only fixated on the 34 homicides of women by an intimate partner.

A recent survey of adolescent family violence found that 23% of females — compared to only 14% of males — had ever abused a family member (5). But illogically, Australian feminists launched a national smear campaign of “male-loathing, proposing ever more draconian measures to lock up accused men, deny bail, publish their details online. Grovelling politicians responded by handing out more and more of our money and promises to further curtail civil liberties,” reveals commentator Bettina Arndt (6).

But global public opinion has turned against feminist ideology (7). Accordingly, lawmakers around the world are now pushing back against the totalitarian threat:

Turkey: In 2021, Turkey released a Presidential Decree announcing its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on violence against women (8).
South Korea: In 2022, president Yoon Suk Yeol proposed the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality (9).
West Africa: The Sankofa Initiative of West Africa reported on a well-funded anti-gender campaign being conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Senegal (10).
United States: In August, Florida governor Ronald DeSantis abolished the Gender Studies major at the New College (11). A similar move currently is being debated in Wyoming, as well (12).
Argentina: Last December, newly elected president Javier Milei disbanded the national Women, Gender, and Diversity Ministry (13).
Czech Republic: In January, the Czechia senate voted to reject the Istanbul Convention (14).
El Salvador: Earlier this month, president Nayib Bukele announced he is removing “every last trace” of gender ideologies from the schools in his country (15).

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance urges lawmakers around the world to recommit to the democratic principles of equal treatment under the law, and reject feminist attempts to play on persons’ sense of chivalry and fear in order to sideline male victims of domestic violence.

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — consists of 143 member organizations from 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse polices are science-based, family-affirming, and sex-inclusive. https://endtodv.org/davia/

Links:

1, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hf1zRYHNDJjvunWWeoOl33VTVmPADtijzMniAmxBPRE/edit#gid=0