A Kyrgyz girl near the ancient heritage site Tash-Rabat. Wikipedia image.
Meet Daniar Aitman, Kyrgyzstan’s unlikely — read ‘male’ — hub for stories posted under the “I am not afraid to speak” (#яНеБоюсьСказать) hashtag, an anti-gender discrimination and anti-sexual violence campaign that began in Ukraine and has filtered into other parts of the former Soviet Union.
Or maybe it should not be a surprise that Aitman, who describes himself as a feminist, has spearheaded the Kyrgyz arm of this campaign, after collecting for over a year stories from female victims of harassment and discrimination on his Facebook page.
With harassment of women pervasive …read more
Source: Global Voices
