PES Women’s street protest in Brussels today aims to highlight the true scale of violence against women.
Organised together with the FEMM committee in the European Parliament, the event takes place ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women this Saturday.
Under the slogan 'Only the tip of the iceberg', some 50 women and men built a wall with the image of an iceberg at Place de Luxembourg, to highlight the fact that only a small part of the violence against women is visible.
PES Women president Zita Gurmai said: