Women in Black

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Women in Black (in: Women in Black) is an international movement of pacifist women. He was born in Israel on 9 January 1988, founded by feminist, pacifist and activist Hagar Rublev (1954- 2000) to protest against the occupation and the violation of the human rights of the Israeli army in the Palestinian Territories. The movement spread to Italy. Since October 1988, Donne in Nero has been in front of the Israeli embassy in Rome. When the Gulf War broke out on 2 August 1990 at the Peace Association Congress in October, the proposal to show in black was recovered. Since 17 October 1990, every Wednesday they were in front of the parliament against the Gulf War. On October 9, 1991, the Belgrade Black Women was founded in response to the Balkan War. In 1993 the Spanish network began to form. Since 2002, the association of women in symbolic mourning has begun to be strengthened and designed in different countries and social networks as a pacifist and feminist option that denounces various injustices related to armed conflict around the world. The international network has also focused on the situation of women in Afghanistan. In 2011, the 15th International Meeting of Black Women was held in Colombia and in 2013 in Uruguay.

History

Women of Black Israel
By December 1987, the Intifada had begun. The first demonstration of Black Women in Israel was on January 9, 1988, around Hagar Rublev's birthday date. He called on a group of activist friends to demonstrate at the central Paris Square in West Jerusalem.

They decided to meet each week on Friday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the same point in the square with banners demanding "End of Occupation" by questioning Israeli society. The initial group of eight women went to a hundred on March 8, three months later.

They chose to dress in a single color as a visual effect to draw attention in public space, black as a sign of mourning and to manifest themselves in silence. At first they had no name but in a short time the black was their identity sign. At the beginning they were often insulted and verbally assaulted while they were silent in the square.

Israel's Black Women was the first social collective to publicly protest Israel's policy of occupation of Palestinian territories by its government.
The group did not have a formal hierarchical structure and decisions were made by consensus. In one of the few interviews of the founder of which there is a record, Rublev highlighted the fact that the initial group was made up of lesbian feminists.

A meeting between Israeli and Palestinian pacifist activists was organized in Brussels in 1989, in which Hagar Rublev participated.

In January 1990 with the support of the Italian activists, led by the Sindi