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• Women's Rights (Movements)

  Sex Talk for Muslim Women – “It is I who own my body. Not the state, the mosque, the street or my family”

  5 May 2016, by ELTAHAWY Mona

  “Where are the stories on women’s sexual frustrations and experiences?” Mona Eltahawy asks about women of Middle Eastern and Muslim descent.
  CAIRO — After I gave a reading in Britain last year, a woman stood in line as I signed books. When it was her turn, the woman, who said she was from a (...)

• Women's Rights (Movements)

  The US, 9/11, the left, and women’s human rights

  11 September 2011, by TAX Meredith

  Portside, the leftie elist, asked a number of people to write a response to the anniversary of 9/11. Here’s mine. It doesn’t say everything because we had a 500 word limit, but it says one of the big things. You can find other people’s responses, and lots of other news, at portside.org/.
  The (...)

• Women's Rights (Movements)

  The Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR)

  9 May 2011, by CSBR

  The Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies was founded in 2001, following the “Women, Sexuality and Social Change in the Middle East and Mediterrenean Symposium” organized by WWHR-New Ways in Istanbul, Turkey. In this groundbreaking meeting, NGO representatives, activists and (...)

• Women's Rights (Movements)

  Europe’s burqa rage

  26 June 2010, by CODY Edward, ERNST Fred, GERSON Michael, OWEN Richard

  After the British army conquered the Sindh region of what is now modern-day Pakistan in the 1840s, Gen. Charles Napier enforced a ban on the practice of Sati — the burning of widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands. A delegation of Hindu leaders approached Napier to complain that (...)

• Women's Rights (Movements)

  Women’s Rights as Human Rights – 2 – ’Conflict and Custom in the New World Order: a conversation with Gita Sahgal

  20 May 2010, by KANDIYOTI Deniz, SAHGAL Gita

  “There is a struggle to be had. It is time to challenge the hegemony of the formal human rights movement and its uncritical embrace of identity politics”. Gita Sahgal in conversation with Deniz Kandiyoti. Part two. DK: In Part I of our conversation ’Soft law’ and hard choices you concluded that (...)

• Women's Rights (Movements)

  Women’s Rights as Human Rights – 1 – ’Soft law’ and hard choices: a conversation with Gita Sahgal

  19 April 2010, by KANDIYOTI Deniz, SAHGAL Gita

  In the first of a two-part conversation, Deniz Kandiyoti and Gita Sahgal explore the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for gender justice and women’s rights. Deniz Kandiyoti: We find ourselves at a particularly critical juncture with respect to (...)

• Women's Rights (Movements)

  Statement by the International Coalition of Women Human Rights Defenders: Respect Universality in Principle and Practice: Defend Women’s Human Rights

  27 February 2010, by AWID, Baobab for Women’s Human Rights, CWGL, Inform, MADRE, UAF, WLUML

  For an update on this petition, see: World Wide Outcry To Make Amnesty International See Reason and Make Amends As women human rights defenders and members of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC), we note with grave concern the circumstances under which Gita (...)

• Women's Rights (Movements)

  Resisting and challenging religious fondamentalism

  February 2010, by AWID

  Background
  AWID’s Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms initiative is an advocacy-research project that seeks to strengthen the responses of women’s rights activists to the rise of religious fundamentalisms across regions and religions. It aims to contribute to greater strategic (...)