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Video: The body as weapon - Femen activists in their Paris HQ

Femen leader Inna Shevchenko Screen capture/YouTube

"We are not here to be liked by many people," says Inna Shevchenko, the Ukrainian founder of the now world-famous women's rights group Femen. In English and French Femen's activists at their Paris HQ explain why they bare their breasts for the cause and how "the body becomes a weapon" against "oppressive ideas".