“Sexual harassment leaves a mark” — giant white placards with this slogan have been positioned in three German cities behind three bronze statues of nude ladies with breasts which have turn out to be visibly lighter from frequent touching.
The motion is a part of a marketing campaign referred to as “unsilence the violence,” launched by the German ladies’s rights group Terre des Femmes.
In accordance with the group, two out of three ladies expertise sexual harassment sooner or later of their lives.
“Sexual harassment is an issue that’s far too usually trivialized or ignored,” Sina Tonk of Terre des Femmes stated in a press launch. “We should work collectively to make sure that the voices of victims are heard and that perpetrators are held accountable.”
The place have been the posters positioned?
The placards have been put in behind Juliet Capulet statue in Munich’s Marienplatz, the “Youth” statue in Bremen’s Hoetgerhof and in entrance of the “Frau Rhein” statue that’s a part of the Neptune fountain in central Berlin, a spokeswoman for Terre des Femmes stated Monday.
Passers-by on the reveals may use QR codes to entry brief audio recordings that permit the statues converse.
The posters, which have been put up on Friday, are scheduled to be eliminated on Monday afternoon resulting from allow points, in accordance with the spokeswoman.
Images of the installations present that the bare ladies’s breasts have a a lot brighter shine than the remainder of the statue, a transparent results of “the place they’re most frequently touched,” the group stated.
The three statues “visibly present the many years of assaults by passersby,” Terre des Femmes stated. The act leaves its mark — “simply because it does for these affected by sexualized violence.”
Terre des Femmes has been campaigning in opposition to human rights violations in opposition to women and girls, in opposition to gender-specific discrimination and for ladies’s rights for over 40 years.
dh/wmr (dpa)
