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• Israël-Afghanistan: Fleeing Taliban rule, Kabul’s last Jew divorces wife over Zoom to be allowed into Israel
  20 October 2021, by siawi3

  Under Jewish religious law, a husband must agree to grant his wife a divorce, something he had refused to do for many years. Facing the prospect of legal action in Israel, where his ex-wife lives, Simentov, after resisting for years, finally agreed to the divorce last month in a special Zoom call supervised by Australian rabbinical authorities. Born in the western city of Herat in 1959, he always insisted Afghanistan was home. The Taliban, like other Islamist militant groups, are hostile to Israel but tolerated the country’s miniscule Jewish community during their previous reign.

• Pakistan: Moral panic
  20 October 2021, by siawi3

  If we take the unintelligent conflation of Pakistani culture solely with religion as true, there is mounting evidence that society has actually gone closer to such supposed roots than drifting away from it. On top of this, for the past two decades, the country has been in the midst of a large-scale Barelvi as well as Deobandi revival, with ever more violence around the blasphemy law, and associated suppression of minority rights in its name.

• As women flee Afghanistan, brain drain hits economy and girls’ hopes
  20 October 2021, by siawi3

  “So many educated and professional women like me are leaving because of threats to our lives. But this will be devastating for the country in the long term.” Experts fear the exodus of professionals could also cut women’s future access to healthcare and education. R. said women would no longer get justice in court as the Taliban did not accept a woman had the right to judge men. “Society will go back to past centuries,”

• Pakistan: The return of ideology
  22 October 2021, by siawi3

  The past two weeks have witnessed the emergence of a debate in Pakistan long deemed dead by pundits across the political spectrum. The debate centres on the possibility (or impossibility) of an alternative to capitalism, a system whose logic has appeared ‘natural’ and beyond reproach for over three decades.

• Pakistan: On dissent, building transversal solidarity and nurturing the will of the people: A conversation with Ammar Ali Jan
  22 October 2021, by siawi3

  Those who subvert the Constitution, those who undermine its basic fabric, its values, its laws, are being seen as the protectors of national sovereignty. All the rights enshrined in the Constitution can be bracketed for this mythical concept of the nation. On the other hand, those who protect the constitutional architecture of freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of dissent — those who take that document that binds us all together seriously, they are seen as threats to the nation-state.

• Afghanistan Tackles The Islamic State
  23 October 2021, by siawi3

  On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities in its northern belt. This is a mosque frequented by Shia Muslims. The name of the attacker raised red flags across the region. It indicated that he belonged to the Uyghur community and had a relationship with the Xinjiang region of western China, which is home to most of the world’s Uyghur population. That a Chinese extremist attacked a Shia mosque raised eyebrows in Beijing and in Tehran.

• A History of Women Challenging Religious Fundamentalism in Pakistan
  23 October 2021, by siawi3

  In Pakistan, the culture and the daily life are dominated by religion. Since 1977 an islamization took place, forming the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Constitution and laws became aligned with the Koran and Sharia. Therefore religion is much more than a personal-political matter: it is the ideology of the state and its institutions, laws which poses many obstacles for women’s life and authonomy, as well for religious minorities. Criminalization and institucionalized penalities under “blasphemy” accusation are part of the state’s control over women’s life and a challenge for grassroots feminist organizing.

• Afghanistan : les talibans décapitent une volleyeuse de l’équipe nationale juniors et traquent d’autres sportives
  23 octobre 2021, par siawi3

  Depuis août, deux joueuses de l’équipe nationale ont réussi à quitter le pays. Les autres se cachent et tremblent.

• Le féminisme face à la chasse aux sorcières, l’usurpation de terres et le contrôle patriarcal en Inde
  24 octobre 2021, par siawi3

  Ses propres enfants ont levé le doigt contre elle, la traitant de sorcière et l’accusant de pratiquer la sorcellerie. Mais la vraie raison était qu’ils voulaient sa maison et son terrain, qu’elle avait hérités de son mari.

• LETTRE OUVERTE AU PRESIDENT DU CIO, A LA PRESIDENTE DU CNOSF ET AU PRESIDENT DU COJO PARIS 2024
  24 octobre 2021, par siawi3

  Le monde du sport va-t-il longtemps encore conserver le silence face à la politique de terreur qui vise les sportives afghanes ? Des enquêtes ont-elles été lancées auprès des réseaux sportifs en Afghanistan afin de recueillir des informations sur la situation sur place et de prendre les mesures qui s’imposent au niveau international ?

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