Network Against Non-State Torture Launch (NNST) Feb 3 2026

Описание: We are proud to have launched the Network Against Non-State Torture, (NNST), a global women’s revolution dedicated to naming, exposing, and dismantling Non-State Torture (NST) crimes against women and girls. Our network emerges from feminist mobilization, collaboration, collective resistance, and women’s truth-telling of survival, rooted in the herstoric and transformative gathering at the FiLiA International Conference 2025.

Non-State Torture (NST) is committed by non-State actors in public or private, in relationships, perpetrated within families, in human trafficking, in prostitution, in pornographic exploitation, by violent individuals, groups and gangs, dismissed as socio-cultural, traditional, or religious acts or norms, and can be committed during migration, displacement, and in humanitarian and civil unrest, for example.

The NNST exists to:
1. Create a healing knowledge space for survivors of NST, where their dignity, voices, and ordeals and experiences are centered;
2. Support feminist lawyers defending women survivors in court, ensuring full access to the materials, documentation, and research necessary to demand that courts recognize NST as torture per se;
3. Establish a Feminist Legal Resource Center on NST, compiling a global library of resources, legal documents, and research to strengthen advocacy and justice;
4. Launch a documentary on NST, amplifying the grassroots science of collective knowledge, women’s storytelling, and exposing patriarchal, misogynistic structural violence.
5. Organize a one-day global in-person gathering in Lisbon, including a feminist art exhibition celebrating women’s resistance, resilience, and healing.

Resources:
Women Unsilenced Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win - https://books.friesenpress.com/store/...

~ Healing ~ Lynn's Story ~ Getting My-Self Back The Woman's Revolution
https://books.friesenpress.com/store/...

Core members of the NNST are:
Mariana de Cunha, Elizabeth Gordon, Jeanne Sarson, Linda MacDonald, Maria Nascimento, Megan Walker, Catalina Hurtardo, and Jessica Person

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