impact on women / resistance

• Katha Pollitt on Obama’s Cairo speech, Muslim Women . . .
  5 July 2009, by siawi

  I thought President Obama’s Cairo speech was basically fine: begin anew, extend the hand, reject “crude stereotypes” all around, turn the page on the Christian triumphalism of the Bush years. But there’s no denying that the section on women’s rights was rather minimal, just three paragraphs, compared with his long discourse on Israel and Palestine; and to my American ears its priorities were a bit odd.

• Lituanie : Jésus-Christ intronisé Roi de la région de Vilnius
  4 juillet 2009, par siawi
  article publié dans Ufal Flash, la lettre 83 de lUFAL, 24 juin 2009
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  Nina Sankari, membre du Bureau laïque international, nous communique cette information : lien
  Le 12 juin, grâce a une pression de la minorité  (...)
• MCC welcomes President Sarkozy’s comment on the Burka
  28 June 2009, by siawi

  The Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) applauds French president Nicholas Sarkozy for his clarity in condemning the burka as a tool of oppression against Muslim women. The MCC believes the burka is being disingenuously marketed to Muslim women as an act of faith and a religious precept.

• Malaysia: Online Petition - Against Banning ’Sisters in Islam’
  16 June 2009, by siawi
  We the undersigned are deeply disturbed by the call on the part of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) to have Sisters in Islam (SIS) banned and its members rehabilitated should its activities be determined to be contrary to the Islamic  (...)
• « Le féminisme, ennemi des mollahs »
  10 juin 2009, par siawi
  Liberation, 10 Juin 2009
  Le féminisme, ennemi des mollahs
  Par Annie Sugier présidente de la Ligue du droit international des femmes.
  « Nous n’avons pas répondu comme nous aurions dû le faire à des propagandes adverses telles que la propagande féministe.  (...)
• Council of Europe says “prohibit and penalise gender-based human rights violations”
  10 June 2009, by siawi

  In a resolution adopted today, PACE invited the member states to adapt their national legislation in order to prohibit and penalise forced marriages, female genital mutilation and any other gender-based violations of human rights, encouraging them to prosecute abductions, illegal confinements and forced returns of women or girls to their countries of origin. According to the parliamentarians, cultural or religious relativism cannot be invoked to justify these acts.

• Lettre ouverte à Mr Obama
  6 juin 2009
  Après la joie de vous entendre reconnaitre le droit des Palestiniens à un leur état, voilà que vous nous plongez, nous, les militantes musulmanes laïques, dans une profonde déception et une grande tristesse en défendant le port du foulard islamiste !  (...)
• Aprés le discours au Caire par Obama, la France doit réaffirme la laïcité comme vecteur d’émancipation des femmes
  6 juin 2009, par siawi

  En attaquant la laïcité et en défendant le port du voile, le Président des Etats-Unis, dans son discours au Caire, a mis à mal le combat de millions de femmes qui paient de leur vie tous les jours pour sortir de la violence des fondamentalistes. Le président Obama nous réduit ainsi toutes au silence.

• You don’t negotiate with terrorists
  4 June 2009, by siawi

  Terrorism only works if we give up that ground. You don’t negotiate with terrorists, whether they’re killing doctors or “only” threatening, harassing, and intimidating them.

• Questions from European Feminists to Candidates in 2009 European Parliament Elections
  3 June 2009, by siawi

  In a context of increasing intrusion of religious fundamentalism and the threats that such an evolution represents for women’s rights, EFI has among its main objectives, the protection of the principle of secularism in the Members States. The feminist proposals of a Secular Europe were drafted during the International Conference we held in Rome, in June 2008, and in the context of the European campaign, we would like to question women and men candidates on their Parties’ projects regarding this specific issue.

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