On July 23, 2018, Oksana Shachko, the 31-year- old Ukrainian-born cofounder of Femen, was found dead in her apartment in Montrouge, a working-class suburb south of Paris. She’d been Femen’s artistic ...

Oksana Shachko, one of the founders of the Femen feminist protest movement, has been found dead in her Paris apartment, the group said on Monday. Activists from Femen, known for its bold topless ...

PARIS – She quickly seduced French officialdom after arriving from Ukraine, winning political asylum within a year of her application. Her visage, framed in blond hair crowned with flowers, helped ...

The new Marianne stamp on the left and Femen's leader Inna Shevchenko on the right. Photos:AFP Militant feminist organisation Femen, is once again causing a stir in France. But this time it's not one ...

French President Francois Hollande has chosen a controversial Ukrainian feminist known for her topless protests as the new incarnation of Marianne, one of France's national emblems, in a move that is ...

Sometimes, less is more. That's certainly the thinking of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen, best known for its bare-breasted protests in its home country. Now it has brought its self-described ...

When four young Ukrainians banded together in 2008 to break the mould for protesting sexism and violence against women, they set off a wave of bare-breasted "sextremism" that eventually spread around ...

Inna Shevchenko, the 24-year-old leader of Femen in France and de-facto commander of the movement as a whole, scrolled through her iPhone messages several weeks ago, as we sat at a sidewalk table ...

Whether the feminist movements in Europe and France rally behind them or not, the controversy surrounding feminist protest group FEMEN continues. Triggering a barrage of criticism and attacks on ...

If you are interested [in registering], it’s not complicated. You just have to take off your t-shirt. Eloise, Femen co-ordinator in France, Sep 19, 2012 The founding of the militant anti-prostitution ...

A topless activist from the global women's rights movement Femen staged a mock execution in Paris on Thursday. The stunt was a protest against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to the French ...

French President Francois Hollande has chosen a controversial Ukrainian feminist known for her topless protests as the new incarnation of Marianne, one of France's national emblems, in a move that is ...