impact on women / resistance

• What kind of feminism does war provoke?
  7 January 2012, by siawi3
  Cynthia Cockburn
  Source: http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/cynthia-cockburn/what-kind-of-feminism-does-war-provoke
  In the last fifteen years I have been engaged fulltime in researching women’s antiwar movements of various kinds in a heap of  (...)
• Tunisie : L’aberration du niqab àl’université
  7 janvier 2012, par siawi3

  J’ai suivi, éberlué et un tantinet incrédule face àla violence qu’elle a déchaînée, l’affaire du niqab àla Faculté des Lettres de Sousse

• Israel: Fighting Back Against Fundamentalism
  7 January 2012, by siawi3

  Jewish fundamentalism, like other religious fundamentalisms, is a recent phenomenon. All fundamentalisms arose in response to modernity, and all grasp onto an invented history and invented authenticity to justify ever more reactionary policies. Even newer is the power that these fundamentalists have. This is not powerless Tevye in an isolated shtetl: These are powerful, focused and highly sophisticated forces.

• Israel: Haredi Women Publicly Denounce Extremists
  7 January 2012, by siawi3

  The time has come to shatter the silence. Ignoring these fanatics is no longer an option, since they go out of their way to attract the secular media in order to broadcast their warped messages to the entire world…I make no demands on this group, since they are not rational…My demand is from us: How did we, in our naiveté, think that the actions of this fringe group could just be ignored? How did we give them a platform, allowing them to act as the representatives of chareidi Jewry?

• Israel: New Words Coined To Exclude Women
  7 January 2012, by siawi3

  Hadarat nashim, translatable as “the exclusion of women,†is a Hebrew phrase with which few Israelis would have been familiar several months ago. Now there are even fewer, if any, who are unfamiliar with it.

• Egyptian activists worry Islamist-led parliament will go easy on military
  5 January 2012, by siawi3

  We can see signs of that deal between the Islamists and the SCAF,

• Statement of concern for Pakistan democratic process, safety of human rights defenders
  5 January 2012

  We, the undersigned, express our grave concern that Pakistani human
  rights defenders are being threatened and intimidated for their stance
  in the ‘memogate’ case. We are also concerned at the danger this
  crisis poses to Pakistan’s democratic political process that had taken
  a step forward with the elections of 2008.

• Libya’s 10% Parliament Quota for Women
  5 January 2012, by siawi3
  The Libyan Human Rights Alliance
  For Immediate Release
  The Libyan Human Rights Alliance, along with numerous civil society activists and organizations, find the Libyan Draft Election Law  (...)
• Egypte : après que la justice ait interdit àl’armée de pratiquer des « tests de
 virginité »
  3 janvier 2012, par siawi3

  La décision, la première dans une affaire de ce genre en Egypte, a été saluée par des cris de joie et des applaudissements de la part de dizaines de partisans de la plaignante venus assister au jugement.

  »C’est une bonne nouvelle. Nous attendons maintenant une décision de la cour sur les indemnités  »

• France : costume dit ’islamique’ sur les terrains de football
  3 janvier 2012, par siawi3

  Accepter un code vestimentaire particulier pour les athlètes musulmanes, non seulement introduit une discrimination entre les athlètes mais est contraire aux règles du mouvement sportif définissant un costume unique pour les différentes disciplines, sans distinction d’origine ou de croyance.

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