The collective of feminists in Senegal plans to hold a march on December 31 to denounce rape culture, violence against women and child crime. However, a lawyer alerted these women to the laws that are in force in this country. According to this lawyer, such action would expose them to prosecution “for public outrage against good morals and indecent assault”.
December 31, 2024 risks being a day that will be engraved in the annals of Senegal. The Senegal Feminist Collective plans to organize a Freedom Day sit-in on the last day of 2024. A day where these women demand the application of the Maputo Protocol, which guarantees for women, in particular: the right to education and training for economic and social well-being, the right to health, including sexual and reproductive health. However, feminists plan to come to this event without clothes. In short, they require a bare dress code.
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A journalist who spoke on the microphones of Seneweb wanted to warn these feminists. “If these feminists hold their sit-in in public, naked, they risk being immediately prosecuted. In Senegal, it is strictly forbidden to appear in public in the simplest device. said the lawyer on condition of anonymity.
However, he qualified his remarks by specifying: “If this demonstration takes place in a private and closed setting, the law could be more lenient. »
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