Two more ’punitive’ actions against women have taken place in less than one month in the southern city of M’sila, Algeria (night of June 11 and July 2-3, 2011). Their houses were burnt down by hundreds of youth, and they barely escaped being lynched. The police did not intervene.
This is not the (...)
For several WEEKS now, women have been subjected to murderous attacks in the South of Algeria; this has provoked international protests and calls for the intervention of the United Nations Special Rapporteurs.
It is crucial that these initial protests are relayed and supported by a large (...)
ALGERIA NO TO THE LYNCHING OF WOMEN ; NO TO ’NATIONAL AMNESTY’ !
We are outraged by the murderous rage of the fundamentalist islamists which once again was displayed in the « El Haicha » area in Hassi-Messaoud, an oil-producing city in south Algeria. We have not forgotten the tragic night of july (...)
Dear friends,
You may remember that there were pogroms against women workers (internal economic migration) without a male guardian (a wali) in the South of Algeria – to be more precise, in Hassi Messaoud and in neighboring cities – in 2001. In case you don’t, look at the article i wrote at that (...)
ALGIERS: The young woman’s smile is sad, her greeting weary. Assaulted by her half brother, Farida took refuge in one of 30 safe houses throughout the Algerian capital that shelter abused women.
“After she was assaulted, Farida practically lost her mind,” recalled Myriam Belala, president of a (...)
[31 July 2001] What started in Hassi Messaoud, Algeria on the night of July 13-14, 2001 is NOT one more crime/violence/violation in the wartime situation that our country has now become famous for. A qualitative change has taken place. For the first time one has witnessed crimes committed not (...)
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