Published: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 12:03 p.m.
Topless protesters storm Davos forum
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Activists of the women's movement Femen demonstrate in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday.
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Activists of the women's movement Femen demonstrate in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday.
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Activists of the women's movement Femen demonstrate in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday.
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Swiss police arrest a Femen activist on Saturday.
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Activists of the women's movement Femen demonstrate in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday.
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DAVOS, Switzerland — Three women angry over sexism and male domination of the world economy ripped off their shirts and tried to force their way into a gathering of corporate elites in a Swiss resort.
Predictably, they failed. The ubiquitous and huge security force policing the World Economic Forum in Davos carried the women away, kicking and screaming.
The women, from Ukrainian feminist activist group Femen, scaled a fence and set off pink flares in the protest Saturday. Their chests were painted with "SOS Davos," as they sought to call attention to poverty of women around the world.
Critics of the Davos forum say the business and political leaders at the gathering spend too little time doing concrete things to solve the world's problems and help the needy.
The women, from Ukrainian feminist activist group Femen, scaled a fence and set off pink flares in the protest Saturday. Their chests were painted with "SOS Davos," as they sought to call attention to poverty of women around the world.
Critics of the Davos forum say the business and political leaders at the gathering spend too little time doing concrete things to solve the world's problems and help the needy.
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