Sexuality

Articles

• Pope Francis extends Catholic priests’ power to forgive abortion
  21 November 2016, by siawi3

  Francis had granted all priests right to forgive abortion during “Year of Mercy”. Latest announcement extends this authority indefinitely

• 2 Frenchwomen Accuse Prominent Islamic Scholar of Sexual Assault
  31 October 2017, by siawi3

  After the first denounciation, Mr.Ramadan said he was filing for defamation. However, Ms. Ayari’s lawyers said they had yet to see any complaint of defamation filed by Mr. Ramadan. Neither Mr. Ramadan nor his lawyer has responded to the accusations by the second woman.
  One lawyer said Mr. Ramadan was using his numerous supporters to defend him. “He prefers to give space on social media to his fans,†Mr. Leclerc said, “who are throwing a political-religious veil over this affair, to try to detract from the fundamental.â€

• Love, sex and religion in India
  4 November 2009, by siawi2
  ISHQ VISHQ PYAAR VYAAR — OR HOLY WAR?
  Herald, 30 October 2009
  When it comes to love and sex, communal politics acquires a particularly vicious and misogynistic edge, says Vidyadhar Gadgil
  Love conquers all – or so Bollywood would have us  (...)
• India: And Now Politics of Cultural Virginity
  4 November 2009, by siawi2

  THE Hindu Right seems to have found a new agenda to arouse passions through the alleged ‘love jihad’ movement, supposed to have been launched by Muslim fundamentalists, to convert Hindu and Christian women through trickery. It is ironical that there is an uncanny resemblance of the issue and its language with similar ‘abduction’ and conversion campaigns launched by Arya Samaj and other Hindu revivalist bodies in the 1920s in north India, to draw sharper lines between Hindus and Muslims. Seen through the prism of a historical perspective, the dichotomy and falseness of the allegations of the Hindu Right appear more starkly.

• UK: Christian conservatives join ‘disastrous’ global backlash against sex education
  4 October 2019, by siawi3

  While Muslim parents’ protests were widely covered by the media, there’s another, highly-organised opposition movement – from the Christian right. “The breadth of what the conservative right is trying to accomplish in the US and overseas is staggering,†said Anu Kumar, president of the global abortion rights group Ipas, describing active campaigns “to undermine efforts to teach students about healthy relationships and healthy reproductive decisions†.

• France : L’éducation nationale face àla pédophilie
  24 février 2017, par siawi3

  Trente radiations pour pédophilie dans l’éducation nationale en 2016. Le nombre de radiations pour des affaires de mœurs (avec des faits qui ne se sont pas forcément produits dans un cadre scolaire) était de 27 en 2015, 19 en 2014, 26 en 2013 et 15 en 2012

• Arabie Saoudite : violence des lois religieuses
  9 janvier 2010, par siawi2
  LA FLAGELLATION D’UNE FEMME ÂGÉE, KHAMISA MOHAMMED SAWADI, POURRAIT ÊTRE IMMINENTE
  Source : Isavelives 05/01/2010
  Selon un article du journal Al Riyadh, le ministre saoudien de l’Intérieur a ordonné que les peines de flagellation et  (...)
• The Sexual Abuse Of Cambodia’s History Is No Longer Invisible
  25 June 2015, by siawi3

  Prosecutors and court investigators have spent a decade amassing evidence of torture and murder in prisons, of forced relocations and forced labor all around the country, of genocide against minorities. But the legal investigators, like so many historians before them, largely missed one of the most common crimes of the Khmer Rouge, the crime that would come to define the lives of women like Chan: sexual violence.

• Massive child abuse scandal unveiled in Pakistan
  11 August 2015, by siawi3

  Citizens in Pakistan are clamoring for justice after a sex abuse scandal involving hundreds of children shocked the nation. Pornographic films allegedly show victims being forced to have sex and abusing each other.

• Une affaire de viols de plusieurs centaines d’enfants secoue le Pakistan
  11 août 2015, par siawi3

  Le scandale a été mis au jour mardi 4 aoà»t après une manifestation réclamant la justice pour les victimes, réunissant quatre mille personnes, près du village de Dolaywala. Depuis, l’affaire a pris une dimension nationale. C’est le « plus grand scandale d’abus sur des enfants de l’histoire du Pakistan  », selon le chef du bureau de protection de l’enfance du Pendjab, Saba Sadiq.

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