Nudity and protest

Female activist group FEMEN who stage daring nude stunts to get their message across pulled another one of their signature moves when a bare chested member mounted a statue outside the Ukrainian Parliament on Tuesday. The words “School of corruption” were written across her breasts while she was ringing a school bell, protesting what the group perceives as a corrupt Ukrainian parliament.

Feminist activists of FEMEN hung a big banner from a church to protest French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in the depressed northern town of Henin-beaumont, where she cast her ballot.
The activists were quickly detained after the protest Sunday in Henin-Beaumont, the latest among many actions in recent days against Le Pen or against both candidates.

A FEMEN protestor attempted to storm the stage during Marine Le Pen’s speech to Front National supporters in Paris.
A woman tried to protest whilst Ms Le Pen was speaking on stage to the party faithful during a rally by the far-right party ahead of Sunday’s first round of presidential voting.
However, the woman  was dragged off the stage by bodyguards.

Femen, a group made up of women activists, staged a demonstration about eight years ago in front of the Turkish Embassy in Kiev, carrying posters that said, "Ukraine is not a brothel." They claimed Turkish men came to Ukraine in groups to be with prostitutes and were making inappropriate offers to women on the streets of the city.

Two topless activists from the self-proclaimed “sextremist” group Femen were violently dragged away from a Paris-area stage after after storming an Islamic conference on women and religion.
Video footage shows two topless women race onto the stage as two Imams were addressing a crowd on Saturday afternoon in the Pontoise district near Paris.

The message of a brand?s condom banner ad during a football match between Turkish and Ukrainian teams on TV has outraged the feminist protest group, FEMEN, on the grounds that it promotes sex tourism in Ukraine.

Topless protesters marched in Waterloo, Ontario on Aug. 1 to defend women?s rights to go bare-chested, after three sisters were stopped for bicycling semi-nude.

The 8th World Naked Bike Ride is taking place in Thessaloniki on June 5. Last year, over 2,000 naked cyclists participated in the event that aims to deliver an environmental message concerning pollution as well as a message focused on the human body.

FEMEN Chief Ina Sevtsenko, the woman who posed topless in front of the Caryatid statues in Athens, states that the group is considering starting a chapter in Athens in an effort to get more Greek women involved in topless activism. The 24-year-old activist told Ethnos newspaper that in Greece it is easy to spot all the corrupt elements that make up the European dogma.

ECB President Mario Draghi was attacked by a protester on Wednesday during a press conference after the central bank’s latest meeting.

The young woman, reportedly a member of the FEMEN, jumped on Draghi’s desk shouting slogans such as “End ECB dictatorship” and throwing …glitter on him.