Secularism is a Women’s IssueThey carried posters and chanted slogans ‘when humanity is affected, silence is unjust’, ‘end the culture of impunity’, ‘rape and crossfire are the government’s weapons’, ‘say no to blaming of victims’, ‘we want resignation of the failed home minister’, ‘destroy the hands of rapists’, ‘get your eyes checked to see if it is day or night’, ‘bring to book those who create rapists’, ‘we want a rape-free country, punishment of rapists’, etc.
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Protests against rape, impunity continue across Bangladesh
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France : « Jusqu’à quand va-t-on se coucher ? »
26 octobre, par siawi3« Jusqu’à quand va-t-on se coucher ? ». C’est la question que pose Marianne cette semaine, après le lâche attentat contre Samuel Paty, le 16 octobre. La rencontre aura lieu ce mardi 27 octobre à 18 ?h ?30 sur Zoom, retransmise en direct sur notre page Facebook.
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Australia: Before Kylie Moore-Gilbert was jailed in Iran, she was an artist, a scholar and a ’remarkable’ rising star
26 October, by siawi3Roya Boroumand, executive director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran, says Dr Moore-Gilbert’s arrest “fits a pattern” of arresting innocent foreigners and holding them hostage. “There is no doubt that if they had a shred of evidence about something wrong that Kylie has done, we would have had a televised trial,” she said. “If they haven’t done that, if she has been charged behind closed doors … it means there is nothing.”
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A New Party of the Left in Serbia
26 October, by siawi3A regional cooperation of left-wing actors is devoted to fighting chauvinism and the incitement of ethnic hatred while having a firm anti-fascist position.
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USA : Le « New York Times » et l’affabulateur qui se disait jihadiste
26 octobre, par siawi3Le quotidien new-yorkais, pourtant référence en matière de fact-checking, admet avoir accrédité les affabulations d’un Canadien qui n’aurait jamais mis les pieds au Moyen-Orient.
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India: Muslim intellectuals, activists condemn Paris beheading, demand abolition of apostasy and blasphemy laws
26 October, by siawi3The anti-blasphemy laws and anti-sedition laws are used to attack detractors and dissenters by theocratic and autocratic (far right) rulers. Charlie Hebdo cartoons must be seen within a European tradition which has for long satirised religious traditions, particularly Christianity. Since Islam is also now a European religion, the same yardstick must be applied to this religion also.
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Indonésie : d’anciens tortionnaires nommés au ministère de la Défense
26 octobre, par siawi3La nomination au ministère de la Défense indonésien de deux anciens membres du funeste commando Mawar (commando de la rose), qui a kidnappé et torturé des activistes prodémocratie en 1997 et en 1998, provoque l’indignation de la presse nationale.
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Simone de Beauvoir - The Obligation of Self-Discovery
26 October, by siawi3Existentialism had made her passionate about the value of lived rather than received experience, and the discovery of “Woman as Other” had only doubled her urgency. It was only through the actuality of such experience, she preached, that anyone, but especially anyone who was a woman, could even hope to achieve a real self, a real life.
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Pourquoi le Soudan normalise ses relations avec Israël
26 octobre, par siawi3L’annonce est une victoire majeure pour Washington et pour le général soudanais Abdel Fattah al-Burhane.
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France : Tariq Ramadan mis en examen pour viols sur une cinquième femme
26 octobre, par siawi3Tariq Ramadan, déjà poursuivi pour viols sur quatre femmes, a été mis en examen, jeudi 22 octobre, pour des viols remontant à 2013-2014 et dénoncés par l’une de ses premières accusatrices.
