bodily rights

Articles

• The politics of nudity as feminist protest – from Ukraine to Tunisia
  27 August 2017, by siawi3

  In the west, where women’s naked bodies have been commodified and used to sell goods, reclaiming nakedness for political purposes is much harder. In conservative societies, where women’s dress is intensely policed, any breach of the codes is both brave and revolutionary. In Ukraine, FEMEN has used nudity tactics to protest against what Shevchenko calls the three institutions of patriarchy: dictatorship, the sex industry and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Some Muslim women have braved censure or death to use their bodies to make a political statement, including Aliaa Elmahdy, the naked Egyptian blogger, and Amina Tyler, the Tunisian blogger who posted a topless picture of herself in 2013. Maryam Namazie – an Iranian ex-Muslim - has used toplessness as a form of protest on a number of occasions, most recently at the Pride 2017 march in London: “A pillar of Islamist rule is the erasure of the female body from the public space. So what better way to resist than with the female body?”.

• A central issue: The far right, LGBTIQ people and a strategy for resistance
  10 August 2019, by siawi3

  The far right is on the rise in one country after another. It has unmistakably become a central factor in contemporary European and world politics. So it is more and more urgent for us to understand the far-right threat we face. To some extent we can learn from Marxist analyses of classical fascism, particularly in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. But many things have changed on the far right: sometimes in continuity with the old fascist right, sometimes not. And gender and sexual politics are not a side issue for the far right – they are key.

• France - Afrique et droits humains des femmes
  4 janvier 2016, par siawi3

  Déni de visa : En d’autres temps, on regardait la dentition des noirs avant de les embarquer, désormais la République française s’abaisse à des pratiques de bio-pouvoir qui sont contraires aux droits les plus élémentaires de la personne humaine.

• Brunei : Gouvernements , organisations de droits humains et militants fustigent la nouvelle loi
  8 avril 2019, par siawi3

  Le blasphème est punissable de peine capitale. Un musulman qui se convertit au christianisme est passible de la peine de mort. Les homosexuels, les partenaires adultérins aussi. « Si le Sultan n’écoute pas ces appels à la raison et à la compassion, nous estimons que le gouvernement britannique doit rompre tout lien diplomatique, économique et militaire avec le régime » de Brunei.

• Women’s March on Washington - Why We March, Where We Are Marching
  20 January 2017, by siawi3

  Women mobilize the world over to support wome’s rights and a just society, marking the first day of Trump area.

• “Period. End of Sentence.”
  27 February 2019, by siawi3

  ‘It’s about eradicating shame’

• Sakharov prize: Yazidi women win EU freedom prize
  29 October 2016, by siawi3

  Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar were among thousands of Yazidi girls and women abducted by IS militants and forced into sexual slavery in 2014. But both survived and now campaign for the Yazidi community.

• France : Colloque « Genre et santé à Lyon
  23 mars 2019, par siawi3

  Samedi matin 6 avril à 9 h : dialogue « Retour à deux voix sur l’histoire croisée du mouvement self-help » avec Lucile Ruault (qui a fait une thèse sur le MLAC) & Rina Nissim (auteur et éditrice d’ouvrages sur la santé des femmes) ; et à 10 h 30 une table ronde « Edition des guides de santé des femmes » où il va être question de « Our Bodies, Our Selves » et des livres écrits et/ou publiés par Rina Nissim.

• Nepal: Religious Leaders Remain Silent Over Legalisation Of LGBT Rights
  31 August 2012, by siawi3

  The situation in Nepal was a stark contrast with the equivalent in Delhi three years ago, where, upon the legalisation of LGBT rights, Hindus and Muslims, typically opposed to one another, joined forces to attack the decision by their government.

• Lebanon: “Torture in Lebanon between Law and Implementation”
  18 June 2019, by siawi3

  Six sessions of discussions on the topic of the prevention of torture in Lebanon in the legal context and the role of the Ministry of Justice, the Committee against Torture, both Tripoli Bar Associations, the Military Court, and the Internal Security Forces in such prevention.

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