Siawi
Website of Secularism Is A Women Issue (siawi). « We are women who are affiliated to various formations that have challenged religious (and ethnic nationalist) fundamentalist forces across different religions for nearly twenty years. From the Vienna Conference on Human Rights onwards we have warned of the threat of religious absolutism and other forms of identity politics. We argue that the defense of secular values and the separation of church and state is a precondition for the struggle for women’s rights and other transformative struggles for socialism, democracy and against conflict. Far from being a ’majoritarian’ position, we particularly focus on the threat of the erosion of secular spaces and of formal secularism, to women of migrant descent and from religious minorities. »