Individual women from different communities have been challenging the constitutional validity of the discriminatory aspects of the personal laws in courts. Their main concern is the threat of forced marriage, murderous attacks in cases of inter-caste, inter-class and inter-religious marriages and property disputes even while they have to deal with issues like adultery, bigamy, polygamy, divorce, custody of child/children, property and incest in their marital homes.
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India: All personal laws in India are discriminatory
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India: Triple Talaq Verdict, Gender Justice and RSS Combine
25 August 2017, by siawi3Although the BJP and Sangh Parivar celebrating Talaq judgment of Supreme Court and claiming credit for liberating Muslim women from the male dominating Muslim society. But there was no evidence that they took any initiative for empowering Hindu women. On the contrary they took every possible step to stall a major initiative taken by our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nahru and our first law minister Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
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France : Fait divers ?
21 août 2017, par siawi3Le suspect roulait à très vive allure et plein phare en direction d’une voiture de police. Il a quitté son véhicule et a tenté de s’en prendre aux automobilistes accidentés en criant « Allah akbar ». La piste terroriste n’est, pour l’heure, pas privilégiée par les enquêteurs.
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Myanmar: Thousands flee to China after attack on army by a new armed struggle of Rohingya Muslims rebelling against decades of persecution.
13 March 2017, by siawi3Myanmar is grappling with an alliance of ethnic rebel groups in the northwest. More than 20,000 people from northern Myanmar have fled to neighbouring China in recent months, seeking refuge from deadly fighting between ethnic groups and the army
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India: Secular Action Network
15 March 2017, by siawi3The open and intimidating interference in the university campus has been the major part of the strategy of RSS combine since Modi Sarkar has come to power. After IIT Madras, Hyderabad Central University, JNU, now Delhi University is the target.
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France : Fermeture de quatre mosquées franciliennes soupçonnées de radicalisation
3 novembre 2016, par siawi3« Sous couvert de but cultuel  », les quatre lieux fermés mercredi « abritaient des réunions visant en réalité à promouvoir une idéologie radicale, contraire aux valeurs de la République et susceptible de constituer un risque grave d’atteinte à la sécurité et à l’ordre publics  »
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China restricts fasting in Ramazan for Xinjiang govt staff, minors
10 June 2016, by siawi3China’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist and for years has banned government employees and minors from fasting in Xinjiang, home to the more than 10 million strong mostly Muslim Uighur minority. It has also ordered restaurants to stay open. The region sees regular clashes between Uighurs and state security forces, and Beijing has blamed deadly attacks there and elsewhere in China on militants seeking independence for the resource-rich region.
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Bangladesh: Forced conversion of religion after abduction
2 July 2013, by siawi3A new phenomenon where men kidnap 10-16-year-old girls from minority communities and force them to sign declarations that they are adults and wish to change their religion to Islam to get married. Law enforcers initially refuse to accept kidnapping charges in such incidents and try to tag such crimes as love affairs. They overlook the issue of forced conversion. State minister of women affairs, Meher Afroz Chumky, said gender sensitisation and issues of women rights and equality should be included in the present education system.
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Egypt: Ripping bodies apart - The Brotherhood sectarian policy in practice
2 July 2013, by siawi3The lynching of four Egyptian Shi’a citizens by mobs is raising alarm bells with regard to the potentially tragic consequences of Islamist endorsement of sectarian policies, which threaten not only to rip the country apart but the region as well.
Will Morsi’s government wage war to avert attention from the country’s growing economic woes and social and political dissent? -
un féminisme non interventionniste face à l’extrémisme religieux
22 novembre 2009, par siawi2par Micheline Carrier
Source : Sisyphe Mars 2009
Ce texte est la deuxième partie de l’article « Un féminisme gangrené par le relativisme ».
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