The Not One Less protest movement was started after the women’s ministry reported that Peru saw 54 women murdered and 118 attempts so far in 2016. “It would never occur to me to offend or mistreat women. So, with all my strength and sincerity I want to apologize to them, those that are here, if they felt offended in their nobility of a family, the mother, the girl in trouble.”Ĭipriani added that many people had cast “unjust and slanderous insults” against him. “I apologize to those who may have been offended by my statements,” Cipriani later said at an event at an orphanage in Lima’s El Agustino district. Many protesters accused the cardinal of victim-blaming. “Women, regain respect by not being used as pieces of meat on television.”Ī crowd of activists including angry Catholics marched on the RPP headquarters, where Cipriani’s “Faith Dialogues” is broadcast, demanding for him to be taken off the air. This is what will occur in the next march with Not One Less.” It’s like that because girls cause a scene and provoke men. Sometimes it is very subtle … Statistics tell us about girls having abortions but not being abused. “Women often cause a scene which provokes men ,” said Cipriani. “The media constantly broadcasts violence, violence against women, and it disseminates abuse of the body as a carnal attraction. Cipriani then doubled down on his comments while speaking on his radio program, which is broadcast nationally on RPP. “ for the respect and defense of the family, life and marriage,” Cipriani said. “Campaigns to damage the dignity of women in their being mothers and wives, and wanting to impose the so-called ‘gender ideology’ are inhuman.”Ĭipriani’s comments attracted criticism from the widespread base of support for the movement in the wake of several high-profile cases of domestic violence and murder against women. Some interpreted his sermon as a veiled insult to the growing movement against violence towards women. On July 28 Cipriani criticized the “gender ideology” at a Mass he led at the Lima cathedral attended by former President Ollanta Humala. According to the group’s Facebook page, more than 50,000 have committed to march this Saturday in downtown Lima. 13 to show solidarity with female victims of murder and sexual violence. The Not One Less, known as #NiUnaMenos in Spanish, has called for a demonstration on Aug. Cardinal Juan Cipriani has apologized for remarks deemed as sexist as Lima prepares for tens of thousands to march in the Not One Less movement.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |