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Leaders of Femen, the Ukrainian women's rights group known for staging bare-breasted political protests, demanded government protection after two of them and a male associate were assaulted while on holiday in the Black Sea. The two leaders, Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko, and Viktor Svyatskiy, a colleague, were beaten on Saturday outside an apartment building in Odessa. It was the fifth time in recent weeks that members had been assaulted. Femen says the attacks are part of a campaign to drive it out of the country. The group called on Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, Vitaliy Zakharchenko, >>>

KYIV – The head of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen alleged Sunday that she and two other activists of the group, known for its topless protests, were beaten by special forces. Anna Hutsol described the attack late Saturday as “planned by Ukrainian Special Services” in an attempt to scare the women into ceasing their protests. Hutsol said that she was beaten along with another leading activist, Alexandra Shevchenko, and Viktor Svyatskiy, a male consultant to the group, as they walked out of an apartment building in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. “My face >>>

Two seemingly unrelated stories in the New York Times about violence against women in two different European countries demonstrate that if you just listen to women, they'll tell you what they need to fix a problem. A while the answer is usually more help from the government, women usually point to different solutions than just creating new laws to regulate offenders. In Italy, Prime Minister Enrico Letta has proposed much tougher laws against domestic violence abusers – what he calls "femicide." In 2012, the United Nations said that the country "must do more to protect women from violence and >>>