The municipal campaign in Rivas Vaciamadrid, which aligns with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, will this year focus on the experiences of women in conflict zones. The initiative aims to analyse the violence faced by women, their resilience, and their roles in peace-building through a feminist lens.
According to the local government’s Department of Feminisms and Diversity, the campaign seeks to highlight how patriarchal violence manifests in wartime, the specific impacts on women, and their active roles as agents of resistance and defenders of human rights.
Programme of activities
The campaign will feature a series of events, including:
- Theatre documentary 'Nadia'
Saturday, 14 November / 19:00. Covibar Hall. Entry: €3. This performance, created in collaboration with Nadia Ghulam, an Afghan woman who was a child victim of her country’s civil war in 1992, recounts her journey of migration to Spain and her struggle for identity. - Kilometres that count: 'Paths to Peace'
Monday, 16 to Sunday, 22 November / 09:00-21:00. Fitness rooms at Cerro del Telégrafo and Parque del Sureste sports centres. Participants are invited to symbolically recreate the long distances travelled by women and girls displaced by war through a 'path of awareness' using treadmills and stationary bikes. - Workshop with Manuela Mesa
Monday, 16 November / 18:00-21:00. Casa Feminista. A workshop led by Manuela Mesa, co-director of the DEMOSPAZ Institute at the Autonomous University of Madrid, focusing on the promotion of United Nations Resolution 1325. - Conference on women during the Civil War
Tuesday, 17 November / 17:00-19:00. El Parque Senior Centre. Esperanza Negueroles, an expert in women's history, will discuss the specific repression faced by women during the Spanish Civil War. - Event: Women in conflict zones
Wednesday, 18 November / 17:30-21:00. Pedro Zerolo Hall at the Town Hall. Various speakers will address the situation of women in armed conflict, with a break for the presentation of the Women’s Council awards. - Documentary screening 'They live, fear, dream'
Thursday, 19 November / 18:00. Pedro Zerolo Hall. A video forum followed by a debate with the director Nuria Silván Miracle. - Exhibition 'We are all Palestine'
Thursday, 19 to Tuesday, 24 November. Opening: Thursday, 19 / 16:30-19:30. Pedro Zerolo Hall. An exhibition dedicated to Palestinian women, coordinated by the Mothers for Gaza collective. - Documentary and report presentation 'Women in Iran'
Friday, 20 November / 18:00-19:30. Community Associations House in the West neighbourhood. Screening of an Amnesty International documentary and presentation of a report on human rights violations in Iran.
The campaign aims to foster awareness and dialogue around the challenges faced by women in conflict situations, as well as their contributions to peace and resistance.
