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• Statement on Concerns of Women’s Organizations over Negotiations on CSW 57 Outcome Document
  14 March 2013, by siawi3

  We say NO to any re-opening of negotiations on the already established international agreements on women’s human rights. Customs, tradition or religious considerations must not be tolerated to justify discrimination and violence against women and girls whether committed by State authorities or by non-state actors.

• Religion, Culture, Tradition and Fundamentalisms at the UN
  1 April 2013, by siawi3

  As fundamentalist forces negotiated and lobbied to stall progress at the CSW, in the meantime in Geneva on March 15^th, a group of nine states (Bangladesh, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe) tabled a draft resolution on the “Protection of the Family” which sought to insert the concept of the traditional (that is, patriarchal and heteronormative) family as a subject of human rights protection.

• The Catholic Church at the UN: Church or State?
  1 April 2013, by siawi3

  This updated report by Catholics for Choice examines the Vatican’s questionable denomination as a state, the history of its acceptance into the UN, and the ongoing efforts of the Holy See to impose its views on all the globe, Catholics and non-Catholics alike. This is particularly salient at a time when the Vatican is also seeking to insert itself into various regional governance bodies.

• UN: Tradition, Culture And Religion
  1 April 2013, by siawi3

  Feminist International Radio Endeavour FIRE
  Audio recording of an important session on tradition, culture and religion, which were used against women at the UN

• Iran : « Dans les monastères, les synagogues et les mosquées se réfugient les faibles que l’Enfer épouvante »
  24 mars 2013, par siawi3

  Voici un poème d’Omar Khayam, Persan du XI^e siècle. Il est dédié à toutes celles et à tous ceux qui rêvent de voir la lumière renaitre en Iran :

• Violating Children’s Rights in the Name of Tradition, Culture, Religion or Superstition
  8 April 2013, by siawi3

  A report released by The International NGO Council on Children’s Rights last year first looks at the definition and scope of harmful traditional, cultural and religious practices violating children’s rights.

• Daech en guerre contre Noël
  21 février 2016, par siawi3

  Noël a coïncidé avec le Mawlid en 2015, pour la première fois depuis plusieurs siècles. Mais ce hasard ne mettra pas fin à la guerre des calendriers. Bien au contraire. Il aura plutôt mis en exergue les points communs entre extrémistes musulmans et extrémistes de droite, qui souvent restent occultés. Les deux camps se nourrissent l’un de l’autre, se renforçant mutuellement. On pourra rétorquer que des deux groupes seuls les islamistes tuent. C’est généralement vrai, tant qu’il s’agit d’hommes. Mais l’extrême droite tue l’humanisme, pourtant la seule chose qui pourrait tous nous sauver.

• ISIS’ War on Christmas
  21 February 2016, by siawi3

  Christmas coincided with Mawlid this year, for the first time in centuries. But the happenstance has highlighted the shared features of Islamists and far-rightists, which usually remain hidden. The two camps feed on each other, providing mutual reinforcement. One might counter that of the two groups, only Muslim extremists kill. Which is true, at least when it comes to people. But the extremists of the right kill humanism, and that’s the only thing that could save us all.

• The Sexual Misery of the Arab World
  21 February 2016, by siawi3

  The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at first, but passions have since waned. Those movements have come to look imperfect, even ugly: For one thing, they have failed to touch ideas, culture, religion or social norms, especially the norms relating to sex. Revolution doesn’t mean modernity.

• Richard Dawkins & Sarah Haider Interview with Panel Highlights at Secular Conference 2017 London
  3 August 2017, by siawi3
  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9odn0WYgmk
  Richard Dawkins & Sarah Haider Interview with Panel Highlights at Secular Conference 2017 London
  Godless Spellchecker
  Ajoutée le 25 juil. 2017
  Interview and panel footage with Richard Dawkins  (...)

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