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, by ELTAHAWY Mona
“Where are the stories on women’s sexual frustrations and experiences?” Mona Eltahawy asks about women of Middle Eastern and Muslim descent.
CAIRO — After I gave a reading in Britain last year, a woman stood in line as I signed books. When it was her turn, the woman, who said she was from a (…)
, by TAX Meredith
Portside, the leftie elist, asked a number of people to write a response to the anniversary of 9/11. Here’s mine. It doesn’t say everything because we had a 500 word limit, but it says one of the big things. You can find other people’s responses, and lots of other news, at portside.org/. (…)
, by CSBR
The Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies was founded in 2001, following the “Women, Sexuality and Social Change in the Middle East and Mediterrenean Symposium” organized by WWHR-New Ways in Istanbul, Turkey. In this groundbreaking meeting, NGO representatives, activists and (…)
, by CODY Edward, ERNST Fred, GERSON Michael, OWEN Richard
After the British army conquered the Sindh region of what is now modern-day Pakistan in the 1840s, Gen. Charles Napier enforced a ban on the practice of Sati — the burning of widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands. A delegation of Hindu leaders approached Napier to complain that (…)
, by KANDIYOTI Deniz, SAHGAL Gita
“There is a struggle to be had. It is time to challenge the hegemony of the formal human rights movement and its uncritical embrace of identity politics”. Gita Sahgal in conversation with Deniz Kandiyoti. Part two.
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DK: In Part I of our conversation ’Soft law’ and (…)
, by KANDIYOTI Deniz, SAHGAL Gita
In the first of a two-part conversation, Deniz Kandiyoti and Gita Sahgal explore the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for gender justice and women’s rights.
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Deniz Kandiyoti: We find ourselves at a particularly (…)
, by AWID, Baobab for Women’s Human Rights, CWGL, Inform, MADRE, UAF, WLUML
For an update on this petition, see: World Wide Outcry To Make Amnesty International See Reason and Make Amends
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As women human rights defenders and members of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC), we note with grave concern (…)
, by AWID
Background
AWID’s Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms initiative is an advocacy-research project that seeks to strengthen the responses of women’s rights activists to the rise of religious fundamentalisms across regions and religions. It aims to contribute to greater strategic (…)
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