Europe | Finland | Sports

Women’s football gaining momentum in Finland

Ever since English sailors first brought football to Finland in the 1890s, the passion for the beautiful game has continued to grow in the northern European nation. Nowadays, football even tops ice hockey in the number of registered players - especially among women and girls - characterised by skyrocketing enthusiasm. In collaboration with FIFA Forward, the Finnish Football Association (SPL) has committed over the years to encourage and foster this growing interest. Through women’s football development projects, the SPL has - jointly with the FIFA Forward programme - started developing th

Europe | Finland | Politics

Finland election brings NEW threat to EU: The Brexit-backing Farage fan vying for Finexit

Source: Express

Laura Huhtasaari, a 38-year-old former teacher, is trying to bring anti-immigration populist ideas back to mainstream Finnish politics and her campaign for the presidency has seen her reputation soar ahead of the first round of voting on Sunday. Her Finns Party has employed tactics from a variety of populist politicians, echoing Donald Trump with her “Finland first” slogan and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who used nationalism as a key theme in her campaign.

Europe | Finland | Crimes

No Joke: Finnish TV Spot Teaches Women How Not to Get Raped By Migrants

Source: Truth Revolt

If this is how women are being taught to protect themselves, Europe is done. Sadly, this is not a joke nor a satirical sketch on a late-night comedy program. What you are about to watch is a so-called "educational video" by Finnish media. This is Finland's weak, ineffective attempt to teach women how not to get raped by migrants. Of course it would be "Islamophobic" to actually feature migrants in the video, so none make an appearance. Rather, the "rapist" in this dramatization is a white male. So how does this video suggest women fend off the barbarian hordes bent on violating them? H

Europe | Finland | Politics

Finland adopted Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence

Source: FINLAND'S PERMANENT MISSION UNITED NATIONS

The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) will enter into force on 1 August 2015 in Finland. The Istanbul Convention is the first European human rights convention on women. The purposes of the Convention are to prevent and eliminate violence against women and domestic violence, provide protection of all victims of such violence, and prosecute the perpetrators of violence. The Convention also aims to contribute to the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and and promote substantive equal