{"id":82629,"date":"2026-05-14T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82629\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:47:13","slug":"hundreds-of-men-protest-in-berlin-against-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82629\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of men protest in Berlin against gender-based violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of people, most of them men, joined a rally in Berlin on Thursday to protest against gender-based violence.<\/p>\n

Germany traditionally marks Father’s Day on Ascension Day, which falls on the Thursday 40 days after Easter.<\/p>\n

In many regions, men get together for a hiking tour or walk pulling a small waggon filled with alcohol and regional food, often using the day as an opportunity to get drunk.<\/p>\n

“Men against Violence,” the group behind the Berlin rally, sought a different path to mark the day, hoping to highlight issues like sexual assault and violence against women and queer people, which “is almost always perpetrated by men.”<\/p>\n

Some 3,500 people, including women and children, took part in the protest at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, organizers said, while police put the number of participants at some 800.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators carried banners with slogans including “The country needs new men,” and “More feelings, less violence.”<\/p>\n

A similar protest was held in Hamburg, organized by the Come on Boys initiative.<\/p>\n

“Men against Violence” has called for men to take a more active role in efforts to combat sexual violence, and is demanding better funding for women’s shelters, prevention and victim support.<\/p>\n

The group is also advocating for the “Only Yes means Yes” principle – which criminalizes any sexual act that takes place without freely given consent – to be implemented in German law.<\/p>\n

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People take part in the “Men against violence” demonstration against gender-based and sexualized violence on Pariser Platz. (zu dpa: \u00abHundreds of men protest in Berlin against gender-based violence\u00bb) Fabian Sommer\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people, most of them men, joined a rally in Berlin on Thursday to protest against gender-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,44015,44013,190,44014,4238,14766,27139,20646],"class_list":{"0":"post-82629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-father39s-day","10":"tag-gender-based-violence","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-pariser-platz","13":"tag-sexual-assault","14":"tag-sexual-violence","15":"tag-sexualized-violence","16":"tag-violence-against-women"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116574188249218416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}