Women's rights activist strips in Vatican

Last Updated: Monday, November 07, 2011, 10:04

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Women`s rights activist strips in Vatican

Vatican City: A young Ukrainian women rights activist sneaked past security and partially stripped in front the Vatican's Saint-Peter Basilica just after the Pope's Sunday Angelus.

The blonde activist, initially wearing tight jeans and a see-through black tulle top, struck provocative poses against the dramatic backdrop of the basilica and the papal apartments, where Benedict XVI had given his traditional blessing moments earlier.

Legs splayed, she brandished a black placard demanding "Freedom for Women" and then took her top off, according to a photographer on the scene.

Italian police labouriously subdued the topless activist, who was still kicking and screaming as they dragged her away from the papal enclave under the bewildered gaze of faithful and tourists.

She belongs to a Ukrainian women's rights group called Femen, which campaigns against sexism and whose topless tactics have attracted increasing public attention in recent years.

The group was founded in Kiev in 2008 to combat sex tourism, prostitution and sexual harassment targeting female university students in Ukarine.

Their previous stunt was just a few blocks away yesterday, when naked activists with their busts painted in the red, white and green colours of the Italian flag joined a mass protest against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

PTI

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First Published: Monday, November 07, 2011, 10:04

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Kallol Chakrabarti - Kolkata
Men and Women are parts of creation. We may not see the light on the earth, if the burden of becoming conceived is taken by the women. One that gives us life to see the world when they are to come out on streets stripping, it seems humanity is at stake. I thank those women protesting, at the same time I must tell them feel the world is so nicely and artificially created by men and women both, and they should work together for their rights, not alone, as I feel, it may be a strategical trap to keep burning questions away.

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dr g balakrishnan - asia
indeed sex tourism need to be stopped as women oppose, after all women are not modern day slaves even Pope benedict shd take up is her suggest by becoming partialy topless, after all it is is great human issue please . Ecven UJN also need to note and take appropriate steps. food one needs not luxury is the message!