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Marisa Krystian | Jun 8, 2012 2:01pm EDT | 1min:20sec

Activists took their tops off to reveal an anti-EURO2012 message outside the Warsaw stadium on Friday (June 8).

The members of Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group stripped down just hours before the opening match of Europe's biggest football tournament, shocking fans arriving at the stadium.

The group believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being playing in Poland and the Ukraine this month will encourage sex tourism.
Femen regularly stages topless protests in Ukraine - and sometimes beyond - to highlight what it sees as political injustice, social abuse and the exploitation of women in Ukraine.

Femen says Euro-2012, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland next month with the final in Kyiv on July 1, will be a magnet for one of the group's main targets - sex tourists - which they believe will  feed the booming sex industry.

About one million foreign tourists are expected in Ukraine for the Euros.Conscious of Ukraine's growing reputation as a new destination for sex tourism, Euro-2012 organizers say they are taking steps to curb prostitution during the month-long tournament.

Via: tv.ibtimes.com

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