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Alaa Salah’s role in Sudan’s protests was not unique, African women have long led change – and Libya’s precedent is especially relevant
At the same time that images of female Sudanese revolutionaries were going viral, the citizens of Tripoli were preparing for an assault on their city. The (...)
On 19th January 2019, another incident took place at Sahiwal toll plaza that once again shatter the conscious of the masses of Pakistan and also shook the confidence of state institutions as well. On that day, an extension of internal armed forces, Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), bumped (...)
The Me Too movement against sexual assault and rape has animated women throughout the world. In the Middle East too, despite the wars led by authoritarian states, various imperialist powers, and extremist religious fundamentalist forces, all of which promote patriarchy and misogyny, a Me Too (...)
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung offices in Asia discussed joint strategies aimed at strengthening the rights of migrant workers at a workshop in Beirut
The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS) in Beirut and the Berlin headquarters jointly organised a workshop entitled “Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia” from (...)
Houzan Mahmoud is a Kurdish feminist, and co-founder of Culture Project. Houzan has an MA in gender studies, from SOAS-Univeristy of London. She was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973 and currently residing and working in London.
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Andy Heintz – What are your thoughts on what has been (...)
No country in the world has achieved full gender equality, but the Arab region – a diverse grouping of 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa – ranks lowest in the world, according to the 2016 Global Gender Gap Report .
Despite some advances in women’s economic equality in Qatar, (...)
3 August 2016 marks the 2nd anniversary of the Feminicide and Genocide by Islamic State (IS) against Yazidi people in Sinjar/Shengal. On 3 August 2014 IS attacked and captured Sinjar, which is the historical homeland of Yazidis, a Kurdish religious minority whose ancient religion is linked to (...)
Of course women have been part of the revolutionary processes in the region. They have been strikers (in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain); they have participated in general assemblies (in Oman); everywhere, they have demonstrated, marched, occupied squares and camps (in Bahrain, Oman and Yemen). (...)
Karima Bennoune is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law and the author of the forthcoming book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism .
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MRB: Tell us briefly about your recent work on the (...)
Haideh Moghissi compares and contrasts the situation facing women in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in the light of her experience during the Iranian Revolution and offers both warning signs and hope for a different path.
FEW PEOPLE WOULD consider the changes in regimes in the Arab (...)
On 18 January 2011, in Cairo, Asma Mahfouz, a 26-year-old blogger, posted a video on Facebook, calling for a demonstration in Tahrir Square to protest against the Mubarak regime.
The next day, in Sana’a, Tawakkol Karman, a 32-year-old activist and journalist, demonstrating in solidarity with (...)
Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian feminist, sociologist, political theorist and author known for her work against religious fundamentalism. Helie Lucas was born in Algeria to a ‘family of feminists’ and had been active in the liberation struggle of Algeria. She founded the Women Living Under (...)
This petition will be handed to the President of the European Council at the occasion of European Union heads of states and governments Summit, Brussels May 25, 2012.
We, Arab women engaged in the fight for democracy, dignity and equality, we, who have been at the forefront of the exceptional (...)
This statement on solidarity with women in the revolutionary process in the Arab region was adopted by the annual International Committee (IC) meeting of the Fourth International on the 28th of February, 2012.
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1. The movements that swept Ben Ali and Mubarak from (...)
FGM not merely an African problem; high rates in the Middle East.
BEIRUT, 18 JANUARY 2012, The first conference ever on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East is currently taking place in Beirut, Lebanon, with participants from Iraqi Kurdistan, Central Iraq and Yemen with input (...)
The “Arab Spring” has received copious attention in the American media, but one of its crucial elements has been largely overlooked: the striking role of women in the protests sweeping the Arab world. Despite inadequate media coverage of their role, women have been and often remain at the (...)
Through protesting, organising, blogging and hunger-striking, women have taken a central role, but it remains to be seen whether their rights will improve.
In a small room in Benghazi some young men and women are putting out a new opposition newspaper. “The role of the female in Libya,” reads (...)
“Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic state has hijacked the Iranian revolution, changed the laws and reversed women’s gains. My advice to Egyptian women is “do not give way to a government that would force you to choose (...)
The most uplifting stories I hear are often about things that never happened. This is what I keep reminding myself as I join others seeking to end rape as a weapon of war. This is what drives the work of the courageous women facing down ISIS every day.
This paradox is familiar to many women’s (...)
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