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"أكد الدكتور حمدي الحناوي الباحث الاجتماعي أن التكلفة الإجمالية التي تتحملها الدولة كنتيجة للعنف ضد المرأة تبلغ 147.6 مليار جنيه سنويا ،مع زيادة 3.5 مليار جنيه عن كل سنة تالية."
"Mandatory sonograms, forced lectures by doctors, humiliating permission slips from abusive husbands, paternalistic opinions from Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, uneducated and patently stupid soundbites from Tea Partiers. That’s not the worst. In this newest wave of the war on women, let’s not forget the U.S. government's abortion policies toward women in war."
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Rape is systematically being used as a weapon of war in conflicts worldwide. During the Rwandan genocide it is estimated that between 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped in 100 days and that approximately 20,000 children were born as a result of rape. Recent reports from Burma indicate that Burmese soldiers have orders to rape women. 387 civilians were raped in Walikale, North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a 4 day period last year. In 2008 alone, the U.N. Population Fund recorded 16,000 cases of rape in DRC, two-thirds of them adolescent girls and other children, in an area where rape is vastly underreported. Imagine what the real numbers are.
"During the genocide and post genocide period, Tutsi women were systematically raped, sexually abused and intentionally infected with HIV/AIDS. An estimated 20000 children were born from rape committed during the genocide period."
In Haiti, one year after its devastating earthquake, UN Women is working side by side with national counterparts to stop violence against women, expand women’s economic options and increase space for women to participate in decisions that affect them. The head of UN Women in Haiti, Sheelagh Kathy Mangones, shares an update.
Thrown in jail for getting pregnant? That seems like a particularly absurd violation of women's reproductive rights. But it's actually an established policy in Allegheny County, PA. Cara reports at the Curvature that, for Amy Lynn Gillespie, becoming pregnant meant violating the terms of her work release under probation, and getting thrown in jail. Yet this story comes to an even more tragic ending, because Gillespie died while in custody from advanced pneumonia.
"Women and girls uprooted by conflict in eastern Chad suffer widespread and serious violence, not least because the government of the central African country is failing to protect them, says a report by aid group Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). "
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Eastern Chad is home to around 171,000 people who have been driven from their homes by inter-ethnic violence over land and natural resources, attacks by bandits as well as by confrontations between the army and various rebel movements.
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Since 2009 most assaults on displaced women and girls in eastern Chad have taken place within camps for internally displaced people (IDPs).
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SEEMA Das is a forthright, educated mother of one daughter in India, although if fate had been allowed to follow its course she would have two girls.
Spring 1997.
This was the Spice Girls moment, and debate: Were these frosted cupcakes really a vehicle for feminism? And how much reversion back to the glory days of prefeminism should girls and women accept—even celebrate—given that we now allegedly had it all?
A report by the World Bank said that women face many obstacles in entering the labor market in Egypt, and that life after marriage is one of the obstacles that raises unemployment rates among women compared to their Egyptian male counterparts.
Targeting the weakest and the most vulnerable is neither new nor surprising when it comes from an entity that stands on the ruins of Palestinian villages and is swimming in the blood of its Palestinian victims
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Accounts of the Deir Yassin massacre (9-10.4.1948) mention that among the 254 Palestinians victims were 25 pregnant women who were bayoneted in the abdomen while still alive. Another 52 children were maimed in front of their mothers before having their heads cut off by the Zionist terrorists. After the village of Beit Darras had been surrounded by Zionist terror groups and further Zionist mobilization was on the way to occupy the village, the Zionist terror groups called on the Palestinian residents to leave the village safely from the south side. The villagers decided that it was safer for the women and children to leave, since it was the village the Zionists wanted. Upon leaving the village, all the women and children were massacred by the Zionist terrorists.
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During the first Intifada several mothers were shot dead by the IOF. Also pregnant women were targeted and a number were killed mainly by the poisonous gas used by the IOF against unarmed Palestinians
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Malalai Joya
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
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Joya, who spent most of her childhood in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, may be a familiar name to those who follow events in Afghanistan. In 2005, she ran for Afghanistan’s parliament by building a grassroots campaign based on outspoken criticism of the warlords who, with the help of their U.S. backers, have been literally running the country into the ground.
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I knew that the U.S.-installed Afghan government and its stooges might try to benefit from my presence in Parliament—to show to the world that there was a real democracy in Afghanistan because even a critic of the occupation and warlords could be elected. And there were a few Afghans who criticized me for joining this corrupt, warlord-ridden parliament. I simply told them an Afghan proverb: how can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger’s lair? I was ready to go to the lair, to hunt them in their own house.
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Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year's maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western women do.
قالت منظمة العفو الدولية في تقريرين إقليميين أصدرتهما يوم الإثنين إن ضحايا الاغتصاب والعنف الجنسي يحرمن على نطاق العالم بأسره من التماس العدالة بسبب التمييز القائم على جنسهن والأحكام المسبقة المتعلقة بالسلوك الجنسي لضحايا الاغتصاب.
A bill passed by the Utah House and Senate this week and waiting for the governor's signature, will make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage, and make induced abortion a crime in some instances.
دور المرأة في القضاء، او تأخره في الحقيقة، هو دليل على أن مجتمعنا يتشوّه، عامة ونُخبًا ولا يزال على كامل الاستعداد في أن يغرق في قضايا العصور الوسطى.
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لا يسن القضاة القوانين التي يحكمون بها، أو يعينون وفقها. قاعدة دستورية يعلمها، كيقين، "حُماة" حقوقنا بمجلس الدولة، الذي أسسه عقدنا الاجتماعي ليقينا تجبر الدولة.. كمؤسسات. القضاة، فقط، يطبقون ما تقره المنظومة التشريعية.
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خطورة "ما".. وُصف بالقرار، هي أن أغلبية ساحقة من "حُماتنا"، لم تجد حرجاً في أن تصوت تمييزاً "ضد" حقوق أغلبية المصريين/ النساء.. لنفيهن من مؤسسة وقعن عقد إنشائها لتحميهن.
"In this interview with Yoginder Sikand [Ziba Mir Hosseini] talks about the origins and prospects of Islamic feminism as an emancipatory project for Muslim women and as a new, contextually-relevant way of understanding Islam."
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It was ‘political Islam’ that actually politicized the whole issue of gender and Muslim women’s rights.
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It was this that led, as a reaction, to the emergence of Islamic feminism, critiquing the Islamists for conflating Islam and the shariah with undistilled patriarchy and for claiming that patriarchal rule was divinely mandated. These Muslim women were confronted with horrific laws that Islamists sought to impose in the name of Islam, and so began asking where in all of this was the justice and equality that their own understanding of the Quran led them to believe was central to Islam.
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"Apparently, they're a couple of decades behind the "liberal" West, and not so stuck after all. "
"The NPA (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste), an anti-capitalist party in France, has included in its slate of candidates for the regional elections in the Vaucluse region a young Muslim activist, Ilham Moussaid, who wears the hijab. "
"Feminists and politicians protest after anti-capitalist Olivier Besancenot fields Muslim woman who covers her hair"
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Ilham Moussaid, a 21-year-old Muslim woman who describes herself as "feminist, secular and veiled", is running for the far-left New Anti-Capitalist party (NPA) in the south-eastern region of Avignon.
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Today, in a sign of how deep concerns are running, a leading feminist group announced it would file an official complaint against the NPA's list of candidates in the Vaucluse département to protest against what it called an "anti-secular, anti-feminist and anti-republican" stunt.
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"The veil issue has shown its face in French politics once again, after radical anti-capitalist fringe party the NPA revealed that one of its candidates (pictured) in forthcoming regional elections wears an Islamic headscarf. "
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the NPA (New Anti-capitalist Party), led by Trotskyist postman Olivier Besancenot, is a party that generates headlines for its extreme left wing position on issues including militant secularism.
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Scarf-wearing Ilham Moussaid (pictured), a student and a party treasurer, is NPA candidate for the regional council of Vaucluse in southern France,
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