Source: Women Learning Partnership
symposium: Challenges of Change: Religion, Secularism and Rights
http://www.learningpartnership.org/en/news/enews/2010/iss27/religion-culture-change http://www.learningpartnership.org/en/news/enews/2010/iss27/multireligious-culture-peace
Yakin Erturk:
When a society is structured only according to shared values, the result is social continuity and a culture of domination by one group over another, said Yakin Ertürk, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. When values are in competition – as between parents and children, citizens and the state, men and women, and the state versus the international community – they create openings for change and a culture of protest. "The human rights framework provides tools for the women’s movement that we have not fully utilized," she said.
Karima Bennoune:
Karima Bennoune, professor of law at Rutgers University, said many political aims are now expressed in religious terms, so we tend to misread them as religious and cultural movements. For example, the Taliban and other armed political groups in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia have adopted the language of Islam, so some of their opponents have wrongly conflated extremism with Islam as a whole.
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