impact on women / resistance

• Gita Sahgal, Feminist Whistleblower, Suspended by Amnesty International
  21 February 2010, by siawi2
  Source:http://www.meredithtax.org/blog
  Sunday, February 14, 2010
  A week ago Gita Sahgal, head of the gender research unit at Amnesty International, was suspended because she gave an interview to the Times airing her concerns about  (...)
• A.I.: Gita Sahgal talks about human wrongs
  21 February 2010, by siawi2
  Source: Human Rights For All
  Interview by Sumit Chakraberty
  Sunday 21 February 2010
  Daily News & Analysis, 21 February 2010
  Last week, Gita Sahgal, head of Amnesty International’s gender unit, was suspended after objecting to the human rights  (...)
• Salman Rushdie’s statement on Amnesty International
  21 February 2010, by siawi2
  Sunday 21 February 2010
  From: The Sunday Times, February 21, 2010
  "Amnesty International has done its reputation incalculable damage by allying itself with Moazzam Begg and his group Cageprisoners, and holding them up as human rights advocates.  (...)
• Afghanistan: any agreement with the Taliban must include women’s rights
  20 February 2010, by siawi2
  UN experts’ body
  GENEVA (5 February 2010) - The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women said Friday that “any agreement reached with the Taliban in Afghanistan should include a clear commitment to respect and  (...)
• Malaysia : protest against caning of women
  18 February 2010, by siawi2
  source: www.sistersinislam.org.my
  17 February 2010
  SISTERS IN ISLAM CONDEMNS CANING OF THREE MUSLIM WOMEN UNDER SYARIAH LAW
  Sisters in Islam (SIS) is shocked that the Prisons Department has caned three Muslim women for shariah offences.
  Given  (...)
• France: un appel de français laïques d’origine musulmane
  18 February 2010, by siawi2
  Pas en notre nom !
  Nous souhaitons faire connaître la réalité àtous les Français : dans notre pays, la France, des prédicateurs qui se prétendent musulmans manipulent l’Islam pour enfermer de jeunes citoyens dans des sectes. Il s’agit bien de  (...)
• Indonesia: Under the shadow of shariah law, transsexuals take to the stage
  18 February 2010, by siawi2
  Source: Jakarta Globe - February 14, 2010
  Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh —
  In their best Acehese costumes, kitsch jewelry and towering hair buns, 40 transsexuals sashayed down a stage on Saturday to loud club music, disco lights and rapturous  (...)
• France : L’imam de Drancy se dit menacé de mort
  4 février 2010, par siawi2
  M.B.(Lefigaro.fr) avec AFP - 26/01/2010
  L’imam Hassen Chalghoumi a comparé la burqa à« une prison pour les femmes ».
  Hassen Chalghoumi avait fait parler de lui en se prononçant en faveur d’une loi pour interdire la burqa. Il entend porter plainte  (...)
• Negotiating with the Taliban
  4 February 2010, by siawi

  The women of Afghanistan, of whatever political persuasion, are entitled to their own voices. This they continue to be denied.

• Are Afghan women’s voices expendable in the rush to ‘stabilize’ – and withdraw from Afghanistan?
  4 February 2010, by siawi
  From: Opendemocracy.net, 1 February 2010
  Meeting in monochrome: women and the Afghanistan conference
  by Sara Mojtehedzadeh
  The picture said it all; an expanse of suits broken only by Hillary’s blonde bob floating in their midst. The London  (...)

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