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• UN Rapporteur sur la torture : Julian Assange présente des symptômes de « torture psychologique »
  2 juin 2019, par siawi3

  « M. Assange a été délibérément exposé, pendant plusieurs années, à des formes graves de peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants, dont les effets cumulatifs ne peuvent être décrits autrement que comme de la torture psychologique. »

• France : Repression contre les Gilets Jaunes : Saisine du Rapporteur spécial de l’ONU
  16 février 2019, par siawi3

  Avocats à Lille, Paris et Toulouse, nous avons été témoins, depuis le mois de novembre dernier, de la répression policière et judiciaire réservée au mouvement des Gilets Jaunes.

• How the Murders of Journalists in the Middle East Are Brushed Aside
  7 February 2019, by siawi3

  What I’m really asking is why the killing of one Arab journalist is more equal than the killing of other Arab journalists? Why, for example, is the fate of Jamal Khashoggi, a friend and colleague of many of us, of infinitely more pressing importance than the fate of Yaser Murtaja? Unfortunately, “investigation” in the Middle East means obfuscation. It’s like the sign they leave on your hotel room handle when you wish to sleep. Do not disturb. Silence. And when you wake up, with luck, the nightmares will all have been forgotten.

• Intervention malienne : le revirement d’Alger
  27 janvier 2013, par siawi3

  Retour sur les relations complexes entre Mali, ONU, CEDEAO, Algérie et France avant la prise d’otages d’In Amenas.

• UN/Egypt: Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet expresses deep concern over escalating violence against women in Egypt
  1 February 2013, by siawi3

  Two years ago, the world witnessed Egyptian women and men in Tahrir square and across Egypt calling for change and exercising their political and civil rights to public assembly and expression. UN Women is deeply disturbed by the gravity of recent attacks against women, including the reports of sexual assault, many of which occurred in the same Tahrir Square in which women rallied to contribute to a better future for their country.

• UN: Training experts to investigate cases of sexual and gender-based violence as international crimes
  1 February 2013, by siawi3

  To increase the pool of experts that can be rapidly deployed to participate in investigations into gender-based crimes during conflict, UN Women, Justice Rapid Response (JRR) and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI), have jointly developed a specialized training course for judges and other experts.

• UN: Statement of the WHRD IC on arguments using religion, culture and tradition to block negotiations on women’s rights at the CSW57
  26 April 2013, by siawi3

  We condemn the use of arguments based on religion, tradition and cultural specificity and relativism to justify violence, discrimination and violations of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls. Some conservative states, including Iran, Russia, Syria, and the Vatican made interventions attempting to reverse progress in the language of women’s human rights. The Muslim Brotherhood claimed that the draft conclusions is a “misleading and deceptive” document which will lead to the “complete disintegration of society” as they claimed it violates Islamic principles, and called on “leaders of Muslim countries and their UN representatives to reject and condemn this document”.

• Women Living Under Muslim Laws respond to Muslim Brotherhood statement on CSW
  16 March 2013, by siawi3

  Governments attacking the CSW are using arguments based on religion, culture, and tradition to justify violence and discrimination towards women and allow violations of their fundamental human rights. WLUML denounces the use of‘religion’ or ‘tradition’ to give legitimacy to patriarchal practices. WLUML knows from its own extensive research that from the religious point of view alone, the Qur’an can be read and interpreted in many different ways. Furthermore, cultural and traditional beliefs and values often influence religious interpretation. WLUML supports civil society and non-governmental organizations in their struggle to challenge traditional values and practices that are antagonistic to fundamental human rights norms, standards and principles.

• UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN 57 DRAFT AGREED CONCLUSIONS - UN WOMEN
  16 March 2013, by siawi3

  ’There is no turning back. ’ ’By adopting this document, governments have made clear that discrimination and violence against women and girls has no place in the 21^st century. ’
  It seems that the brutal move by Muslim Brotherhood against CSW had the opposite effect to what it hoped for.

• Gender-Based Violence And Religion: An Intersectional Perspective
  1 April 2013, by siawi3

  Religious organizations that engage in the language of homophobia and hate at the U.N. should lose their consultative status. It is difficult to estimate the numbers of organizations involved in this religious violence at the U.N., but the work to map these organizations has begun.

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