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• Egypt: The Story of Noon
  12 November 2017, by siawi3

  The Story of Noon, a short documentary by the Egyptian filmmaker, director of photography and actor, Laila Samy, is about the concealed faces of women who, whatever the political climate, will always carry their womanhood and the cultural implications of that womanhood wherever they go.

• France : Les 2 scandales du halal : abattage barbare et impôt islamique caché
  7 décembre 2013, par siawi3

  Ecologistes, défenseurs des animaux, saviez-vousque vous mangez probablement de la viande halal ou casher sans le savoir ?
  Viande provenant donc d’un animal sacrifié de manière barbare.
  Ecologistes, défenseurs des animaux saviez-vous qu’en consommant halal
  àvotre insu vous payez un impôt islamique caché et donc vous subventionnez le culte musulman ?

• India: Moral policing shuts art exhibition by Balbir Krishan at the Muse Gallery, Hyderabad
  3 December 2013, by siawi3

  Sahmat condemns yet another incident of moral policing of the art exhibition by Balbir Krishan at the Muse Gallery, Marriot Hotel in Hyderabad yesterday. This incident is another wake-up call to the increasing brazenness of the right-wing political forces and is a pointer to their plans in the run up to the national elections next year.

• Mutilations sexuelles des femmes
  13 février 2014, par siawi3
  Claudia Cappa « Cette pratique perdure depuis deux mille ans  »
  6 Février, 2014 Source : http://www.humanite.fr/societe/claudia-cappa-cette-pratique-perdure-depuis-deux-m-558548
  Claudia Cappa, auteur du rapport de l’Unicef sur les mutilations  (...)
• Papua New Guinea: Destruction of famous pieces of indigenous art, demands for PNG to become a Christian nation.
  10 February 2014, by siawi3

  On 18 Dec, the Speaker of Parliament took out a 4-page ad detailing his plans for the “reformation, restoration, and modernisation” of Parliament through getting rid of various carvings, in particularly the totem pole has to go as it represents immorality, idols, and witchcraft, through “demonic masks,” carvings that “look like cannibals,” are of “eastern or African or foreign origin,” or are of “ugly figures of African (voodoo) origin.” On the same day and in the same newspaper, a number of fundamentalist Christian leaders took out a full-page ad celebrating the work of the Speaker. It was suggested to make PNG a truly Christian country, that pesky section of the Constitution regarding freedom of religion would also have to be totally redone.

• USA: Feeding the Roots, Building Democracy:
  1 October 2014, by siawi3

  This program had been established to expose how corporations in the United States had used (and continue to use) their powerful financial influence to make that influence legal.
  One thing Kellman learned from that struggle and from all of the other political movements he has been part of was the importance of culture to sustain the movement.
  “We need to recover the disappeared story of the struggle of common people to create a democratic culture. We need to inject into the current debate a vision of a just society where competition is replaced with cooperation, where greed is replaced with love allowing power to be shared by all.â€

• South Africa: Traditional Courts Bill out of step
  27 February 2012, by siawi3

  New laws governing traditional courts could strip 22-million rural South Africans — and women in particular — of some of their most basic rights. The Traditional Courts Bill, on which public comment closed this week, aims to set a framework whereby customary courts will have legal clout. Civic organisations have slammed it as being unconstitutional.

• South Africa: SUBMISSION BY THE LESBIAN AND GAY EQUALITY PROJECT ON THE TRADITIONAL COURTS BILL THAT HAS MADE MANY RURAL LESBIANS EXTREMELY WORRIED
  27 February 2012, by siawi3

  the homesteads of chiefs or offices of tribal authorities are simply not the neutral or suitable safe spaces for allowing all voices to be heard. In our work, we have come across cases where rural lesbians have been punished unfairly at such homesteads or tribal offices which are normally the seats of customary courts. Our information shows that it is not just lesbians only who have suffered injustice when their cases are heard in current customary courts run from the homesteads of chiefs or tribal offices. These realities therefore disqualify these spaces as neutral, sensitive and safe enough.

• UK: The incriminated Jesus and Mo cartoon
  22 January 2014, by siawi3

  Re-Posting this cartoon lead to death threats in the UK.

• Algérie : Arrêté àConstantine pour possession d’un étendard amazigh / Amazighe Semmani risque cinq ans de prison ferme
  4 octobre 2019, par siawi3

  Le procureur du tribunal de Constantine a requis cinq ans de prison ferme, assortie d’une amende de 100 000 DA àl’encontre du détenu de l’étendard amazigh, le jeune Amazighe Semmani.

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