Secularism is a Women’s IssueThe Editors Guild of India condemns the continuing online harassment of women journalists, which includes targeted and organised online trolling as well as threats of sexual abuse. What is further disturbing is that most of these attacks are targeted at journalists who have been outspokenly critical of the current government and the ruling party, in an effort to silence them under the intimidation of such attacks. This is a travesty of all democratic norms, and in violation of law.
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Online harassment of women journalists - Statement by Editors Guild of India
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Two exemplary Twentieth-Century Socialist Latin American lives: José Carlos Mariátegui and Orlando Letelier
14 January, by siawi3The two books we will analyze in this essay, Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui by Juan E. De Castro, and Alan McPherson’s Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice, are very different in subject matter, discipline, and style. But they both tell the stories of twentieth century Latin American activists of the left who strove for social justice and against dictatorship and authoritarianism. Together, they show the variety of and range of contemporary Latin American studies.
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More Female Judges Are Named to Top Courts, Yet Brutality Against Women Persists
14 January, by siawi3While globally, the number of women judges in courts at all levels has been rising, when cases involve sexual abuse or other gender-specific crimes, a judgment ruled against a man can often be disastrous for the presiding judge. At least 90 of Afghanistan’s women judges — once thought to number 270 before the Taliban seized power in mid-August — are in hiding from death threats and physical assault. Others have fled the country. Some of these judges had ruled against men in cases of domestic violence, divorce and child custody cases.
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UK: Whitechapel Noise: politics, sex, and religion in London’s East End 1884‑1914
13 January, by siawi3Songs tell tales of an immigrant culture in flux, anglicising to British norms yet containing aspects of the wider Yiddish-speaking world.
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Solidaires avec le peuple du Kazakhstan !
13 janvier, par siawi3La révolte populaire qui a éclaté au Kazakhstan nous concerne. Si l’élément déterminant a été l’augmentation du prix des carburants, la révolte s’inscrit dans un contexte plus large. Le mouvement s’est construit sur les lieux de travail, a mûri au sein de ceux-ci et les travailleurs ont défini et enrichi, eux-mêmes, leurs revendications et leurs modes d’action.
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Richard Wright à la conférence de Bandung (1955)
13 janvier, par siawi3Richard Wright est un écrivain noir américain qui a vécu de 1908 à 1960. Il a été communiste pendant une partie de sa vie et s’est constamment engagé contre le racisme et pour le panafricanisme. En 1955, il lit un encart dans un journal qui annonce la première rencontre à Bandung des premiers chefs d’Etat des pays indépendants d’Afrique et d’Asie. Il décide de s’y rendre ; il est un témoin direct et un des journalistes qui a suivi et rendu compte de cet événement considérable.
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La conférence de Bandung (1955), un moment historique de la décolonisation
13 janvier, par siawi3A partir du livre de Richard Wright, « Bandung » aux éditions Syllepse
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‘Striking from the Margins’ Avoids Trying to ‘Fix’ West Asia—or What Is Known As the ‘Middle East’
13 January, by siawi3Several competing entities influence the economic, social and political infrastructure of West Asia. The most important are the countries in the region, specifically those that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council, as well as non-member countries like the United States, who have a vested interest in the maintenance and development of certain programs and countries in the region. The value of Striking from the Margins is its subtle refusal to put forth a heavy-handed, neoliberal proposal on how to “reform” West Asia. Instead, it offers proper context for readers to take a step back, thoughtfully assess the situation and envision new ways to embark on such a difficult development process.
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Algérie : Les violences conjugales sur les planches
13 janvier, par siawi3“La mise en scène mettra en exergue l’impuissance, la peur, le silence de la victime, face au débit incontrôlé du bourreau”.
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Somalia: Car Bomb Kills 8 in Somalia’s Capital
13 January, by siawi3Car Bomb Explodes Near Airport in Somalia’s Capital. The explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed at least eight people and injured nine others. A news website affiliated with Al Shabab said the militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
