Subscribe to India TV News Visit this group COMMENTS|SUBSCRIBE Kyiv, Jan 20: Four FEMEN activists staged a topless protest on the balcony of  the Indian embassy  here on Wednesday  in protest against Indian government's  plan to block young Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh women from entering India as part of a national anti-prostitution campaign.The topless activists, partially clad in Indian clothes, used a ladder to climb the Indian embassy’s balcony and unfurled banners saying "Ukrainians are not prostitutes!", "Delhi, close your brothels," and "We >>>

Members of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen protested at the Indian envoy in Kyiv this week over policies adopted by India when granting visas to Eastern European women.  The Calcutta Telegraph reports that the protesters were angry at advice Indian embassies were given when received visa applications from women aged between 15 and 40-years-old from Ukraine, Russia and the Central Asian republics. The advice apparently ordered officials to inquire carefully into what the purpose of the women's visits to India, implying that the country wanted to clamp down on sex workers coming >>>

Provocative Ukrainian female rights activists FEMEN are coming to Bulgarian capital Sofia Saturday to protest domestic violence against women and children and human trafficking. The Ukrainans, who attracted global renown by staging intelligent and controversial protest actions while almost naked, say they have data that 1 in 4 Bulgarian women has been subjected to violence at home. At the same time, the first ever guilty verdict for domestic violence in Bulgaria has been issued as late as end of 2011, argue FEMEN. The Ukraine activists also state they have good reasons to believe that the number >>>