WOMEN IN KUWAIT LAUNCH THEIR OWN #METOO MOVEMENT

  • 11/02/2021

Kuwait City :Women in Kuwait are defying conservative norms and a culture of "shame" to speak out against harassment for the first time, in a social media campaign sparked by a popular fashion blogger.Kuwaiti fashion blogger Ascia Al Faraj, who has more than 2.5 million social media followers, said  last week that there is a "problem" in the country.After that, a 27-year-old Kuwaiti Shayma Shamo, who studied medicine and returned to Kuwait at the end of last year, have set up a social media page on Instagram called 'Lan Asket' which means 'I will never be silent' on Instagram to urge women in Kuwait to testify and talk without fear of harassment .


Radio and TV shows have hosted activists, lawyers and academics to discuss the issue of harassment, and the US embassy in Kuwait also threw its weight behind the women.The embassy also tweeted a striking graphic that illustrates the campaign -- images of three women, one unveiled, one with a headscarf, and another with her face covered -- and bearing the slogan "Don't harass her".
 

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