Si des signes concrets de la préoccupation de notre gouvernement canadien manquent aujourd’hui, nous, les collègues de Homa, nous joignons à ses étudiants et à des universitaires de multiples pays pour continuer notre campagne visant à faire libérer Homa. Amnistie internationale, PEN International, Québec solidaire, le Parti vert, des dizaines d’associations féministes ou d’enseignement au pays et dans le monde ont signé des pétitions.
Secularism is a Women’s Issue
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Can Kofi Annan restore Rohingya rights in Myanmar?
25 September, byRakhine is home to more than 1.1 million stateless Rohingya Muslims, whom Buddhists call “Kalar” and “Bengalis” - derogatory terms referring them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Rohingyas, denied citizenship, face violent discrimination from the majority of Myanmar that have left them in a pathetic state. Suu Kyi was widely criticised for not condemning the riots of 2012. Her silence had actually encouraged the “Ma Ba Tha”(Protection of Race and Religion) movement led by xenophobic Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu to instigate communal riots.
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Pakistan: "She was asking for it”
25 September, byQandeel Baloch was killed. She was strangled to death by none other than her own brother. While many mourn her dead, there is a terribly vast majority which celebrated it. Some celebrated subtly, the others did it openly. Mufti Qavi declared it a lesson for all those women who wanted to “insult the clerics.” The interesting narrative, which emerged after her death was, “although her murder is wrong, her brother was left with no choice.” One of the leading “political analysts”, defender of the pious and leader of the leaders took this view on a national TV.
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The price of free speech in Bangladesh
25 September, byBangladesh is not unique in facing the threat of terrorism, which is now a global issue, but it is sadly the only country where writers and publishers are specifically on the hit lists of the killers. Self and state-censorship coupled with lack of protection for writers at risk have meant free speech and freedom to publish are in dire straits.
