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News reports about outrageous acts committed by public organization FEMEN make headlines in newspapers all over the world on a regular basis. Young girls rip off their clothes in public and organize actions of protests in different countries. Many people see their acts as a show, and few people wonder what the true goals of FEMEN are and who supports the movement financially.  FEMEN is a Ukrainian women's movement that has become famous for its outrageous protest actions, during which activists of the organization, usually appear semi-naked in public. FEMEN began its existence in 2008. The leader >>>

Amina Sboui, a Tunisian feminist activist who was detained for nearly three months, announced on Tuesday that she had left the international female protest group FEMEN because they are Islamaphobic. "I do not want my name to be associated with an Islamophobic organisation," she told the Huffington Post's Maghreb edition."I did not appreciate the action taken by the girls shouting 'Amina Akbar, Femen Akbar' in front of the Tunisian embassy in Paris," Sboui said during her interview.Those chants were a parody of Allahu akbar (God is greatest), a phrase >>>

Amina Sboui, a Tunisian activist who was detained for nearly three months, said on Tuesday she had left the radical women's protest group Femen, accusing it of Islamophobia. “I do not want my name to be associated with an Islamophobic organisation,” she told the Maghreb edition of the Huffington Post. “I did not appreciate the action taken by the girls shouting 'Amina Akbar, Femen Akbar' in front of the Tunisian embassy in Paris,” Sboui said. Those chants were a parody of Allahu akbar (God is greatest), a phrase frequently used by Muslims to express their allegiance to and praise of >>>

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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 >>>

FEMEN activists were beaten up in an attack in Odesa on Saturday evening, the regional police spokesman, Volodymyr Shabliyenko, told Interfax-Ukraine. The victims complained to the police and were taken to a hospital, where they were given medical attention, Shabliyenko said. A criminal inquiry was launched on counts of inflicting bodily harm, he said. FEMEN said on its website that, "people from Ukrainian special services attacked and severely beat" activists Hanna Hutsol and Oleksandra Shevchenko, and FEMEN consultant Viktor Sviatsky. >>>

The two leaders, Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko, and Viktor Svatsky, a colleague, were beaten by unknown assailants on Saturday night outside an apartment building in Odessa where they were staying. It was the fifth time in recent weeks that members of Femen were assaulted. The group says the attacks are part of a campaign to drive it out of the country. In a statement, the group called on Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, Vitaly Zakharchenko, to provide round-the-clock security. “Otherwise Femen activists are in mortal danger,” the group wrote, “the responsibility >>>