bodily rights

Articles

• UK: Failure to stop FGM is a ’national scandal’, say MPs
  6 July 2014, by siawi3

  While anecdotal evidence suggested it was common for girls to be taken back to their country of origin during the school holidays to undergo the procedure, there was also evidence of FGM taking place in the UK. The record of healthcare professionals in referring cases to the authorities was described as “extremely poor”.
  Court protection orders - similar to the system used for suspected victims of forced marriage - were one of the committee’s recommendations.

• Resistance on Bread and Roses TV
  3 April 2016, by siawi3

  Secularism in Europe, FGM etc...

• USA: On Ban of Surrogacy Tourism in India
  6 November 2015, by siawi3

  Huge Step Forward for Exploited Women…In India. Still Open Season on Poor American Moms having nothing to sell but their wombs

• Iran indicates a move toward ending anti-LGBT torture
  19 March 2015, by siawi3

  This is the first time the Islamic Republic has acknowledged ill-treatment and torture of the LGBT community. It is also Iran’s initial move on the international level towards recognition of the rights of sexual minorities.

• Indonesia: Marriage is only one option
  23 December 2017, by siawi3

  My friend told me that getting married and being a good wife is a ‘granary of reward’ and the gift is heaven. The statement makes me wonder if being a good wife is the only way to get into heaven. My mother told me that it was better to be a labourer than a housewife because at least you get a wage if you work outside the home.

• Pakistan: In praise of the first Nude-Resister
  23 March 2014, by siawi3

  A poem-tribute to the first Egyptian woman using nudity as a weapon of war against patriarchy and Muslim fundamentalism: To Aliaa Elmahdy

• I will be nude, I will protest, and I will challenge you to your core!
  24 March 2014, by siawi3

  The call for free, equal and autonomous women is also a call for a free Iran, Middle East and North Africa. No society can be free without women being free. When it is a crime to be a woman, nude protest is an important public political challenge. It says loud and clear: “Enough! No More”! “I will be nude, I will protest, and I will challenge you to your very core!

• USA: Women’s March: Why use the Headscarf (Veil) as a Symbol for Islam?
  23 January 2017, by siawi3

  Posters showing a woman wearing the American flag as a headscarf (veil) was meant as a symbol for the minority of Islamic faith and their rights to equal citizenship. While the idea behind it is to be praised and applauded. Your choice of the symbol was misguided, to say the least: it is an insult to all of the women, who have to wear it and bear the psychological scars of its imposition..

• France : Le mouvement FEMEN en deux livres « Le corps tout entier des femmes est devenu leur voix »
  6 avril 2017, par siawi3

  Quand « la religion s’invite dans l’espace public … nous nous y invitons aussi. »

• Stérilisations forcées des femmes roms en Tchécoslovaquie : un crime eugénique passé sous silence
  7 novembre 2015, par siawi3

  Le 1^er octobre 2015, le Premier ministre tchèque Bohuslav Sobotka (ČSSD) a annoncé sans donner de détails que la proposition de dédommagement pour les victimes de stérilisations forcées entre 1970 et 2009 (date de la dernière stérilisation recensée) a été rejetée par le gouvernement. La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme (CEDH) a condamné la République Tchèque dans plusieurs arrêts pour violation de l’article 3 de la Convention Européenne des Droits de l’Homme interdisant la torture et les traitements inhumains et dégradants.

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