domestic violence

Articles

• Daring to exist — The Pakistani woman’s fault
  9 June 2016, by siawi3

  The scale of the atrocities — not just the number — but the weird confluence of the public and the domestic, the kitchen sink component of the horror makes it all the more awful. I know how to talk about political injustice and national and imperial militaristic violence, drones and jihadis; I don’t know how to talk about the cruelty that makes a mother, a brother and a father participate in the brutalisation of a daughter, a sister.

• Domestic violence plagues Iraq
  8 March 2012, by siawi3

  One rights group says cases of abuse appear to be on the rise since the fall of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein nearly nine years ago.

• India: Women argue for prohibition because they bear the brunt of problems caused by sale of liquor
  26 July 2019, by siawi3

  While consumption may be choice of every individual, its disadvantages are many. Violence, sexual abuse, crimes and accidents due to alcoholism are on the rise in many states. The rich can afford good refined liquor but poor consume ordinary one which is toxic. People have died of consuming spurious liquor. The spread of selling outlets have increased the problems faced by women especially daily labourers. Poor women and their children go hungry while the males in their houses drink spending their meagre earnings. Even the wages earned by women are forcibly taken away from them. Drinking not only harms health but also family life is shattered. Most Dalit and lower caste women in both Telengana and Andhra participated in exerting pressure on political parties to include abolishing sale of liquor in open market.

• Algérie : Témoignage d’une femme kabyle
  19 juin 2016, par siawi3

  Mes parents n’étaient pas des monstres. Juste des Musulmans qui tenaient à élever leurs enfants dans le respect de leur religion. Je garde d’ailleurs très peu de rancune pour tout ce qu’ils ont pu me faire subir. Ce n’est pas à eux que j’en veux. Ceux contre qui ma colère se porte, ce sont les hommes qui dirigent mon pays. Ce sont eux qui en ont fait un enfer en sacrifiant cette terre meurtrie à une idéologie liberticide et mortifère. Ils ont laissé l’islamisme s’y installer, et pire encore, s’incruster peu à peu dans notre vie quotidienne au point qu’aujourd’hui, il la gouverne totalement.

• USA: How toxic masculinity is tied to terrorism
  25 June 2019, by siawi3

  There’s a link between what happens behind closed doors and acts of public violence. Toxic masculinity is creating a pool of men who are susceptible to the propaganda of terrorist organisations – men who are responding positively to messages legitimising the use of lethal force against civilians.

• Domestic workers in the Middle East
  24 February 2012, by siawi3

  The plight of domestic workers in Middle Eastern countries and the lack of laws to protect them inspired Elyas Mulu Kiros to write a poem.

• Sexual Violence in Cologne from an Egyptian Feminist Perspective
  14 June 2016, by siawi3

  A major problem is that postcolonial arguments, as put forward by Western feminists, have come to muzzle the voices of Arab feminists, considering them to be mouthpieces of colonialism when they speak against the patriarchal violence they face in their societies or when they defend universal human values, described as only “Western” by some. It is almost as if before condemning the patriarchal practices of Middle Eastern Men, we should first consider what white European men would think and even prioritize this consideration over defending women’s rights and safety. This obsession with the West has often become inseparable from post-colonialism, determining what can and cannot be talked about by Arab feminists. Consequently, when European women are assaulted by men who are mostly Middle Eastern, the first reaction amounts to complicity with the crime.

• Pakistan: Mullahs on the warpath against a domestic violence law - Women being protected from all forms of violence, what could be wrong in that?
  22 March 2016, by siawi3

  Selected reports and commentary on the mass mobilisation by religious leaders in Pakistan opposed to the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act

• Afghanistan : Fuir Les Violences Domestiques N’est Pas Un Crime
  4 octobre 2012, par siawi3

  Le ministre de la Justice et celle des Droits des femmes ont assuré que les Afghanes ayant fui un mariage forcé ou des violences domestiques ne feraient plus l’objet de poursuites.

• AFGHANISTAN: HUNDREDS OF WOMEN, GIRLS IN JAIL FOR ’MORAL CRIMES’
  30 March 2012, by siawi3

  The UN special rapporteur on violence against women has called on Afghanistan to “abolish laws, including those related to zina, that discriminate against women and girls and lead to their imprisonment and cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment.” The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has urged Afghanistan to “remove so-called moral offences as a crime and release children detained on this basis.

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