Assembly follow up

We are more. Everywhere. ✊🏻

👉🏻 Amid heatwaves, work, obligations, individual and collective struggles, something very beautiful, hopeful, and angry was born a few weeks ago.

🟣 On June 27, 2026, the first open and remarkably well-attended assembly of the Campaign for the Abolition of Mandatory Joint Custody took place. Five years have passed since the passage of the Tsiaras law: a law that has demonstrably abused children and killed women. In the wake of this sorrowful five-year assessment, hundreds of women came together, both in person and online, to organize ourselves, determined to abolish the mandatory joint custody law.

❗ At this assembly we discussed the devastating consequences of the Tsiaras law, shared our experiences, and planned our next steps. Feminist collectives from all over Greece also took part and spoke up, as did people from other European countries with the help of an interpreter - we thank Konstantina from the Greek Forum of Migrants for her tireless contribution that evening.

🙏🏻 Of course, this assembly would not have had such a large turnout without the invaluable, in-solidarity work of four educators, who looked after the children during the assembly, allowing dozens of mothers to take part!

🫶🏻 In this moving first attempt of ours to come together and coordinate, our feelings were intense and mixed: anger at the abusers, outrage at the regime of violence and control that countless children and women live under, but above all, feminist rage. Because from this assembly we saw that we have each other, and we vowed that we will not stop until the mandatory joint custody law is torn down.

✊🏻 This assembly marked the dynamic launch of our Campaign. In the thick of summer, cis and trans women and queer people from all over Greece are organizing interventions and awareness actions, each one contributing their own small part so that the message reaches everywhere: "5 years is too many! Abolish the Mandatory Joint Custody law." First and foremost, those directly affected by the consequences of the law, but also all of us together. Whether we have children or not, we know well that the Tsiaras law affects all of us, as it deepens male patriarchal power and strengthens its control over our bodies in every aspect of our lives. It's giving them wind in their sails, and we will cut it off.

➡️ All of us who came together committed to meeting again in September in a new, open, even larger assembly, where we will discuss how to escalate with new, wider-reaching actions to abolish the Mandatory Joint Custody law.

Until the day we meet again, you can find our declaration on our website, by following the link https://stopchildabuse.gr/oxi-stin-ypoxreotiki-synepimeleia/

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We will win this fight!