Violence against women

Articles

• Indeed, Why Do They Hate US?
  23 April 2013, by siawi3

  Excuses of cultural relativism are made and tolerated when pointing out the abuse and inequality experienced by women of the region, whereas most people universally accept that racism is repugnant and intolerable in any culture. It appears that there is a hierarchy of intolerance and prejudice when it comes to the Middle East.

• Egypt: Donate & help end sexual harassment in Egypt
  4 June 2013, by siawi3

  A call from the HarassMap initiative:
  Sexual harassment in Egypt is completely out of control and an ever growing phenomena. Sexual harassment in Egypt has reached crisis level. In a UN Women 2013 study, 99.3% of Egyptian women surveyed admitted to being sexually harassed. Our data shows that there are no predictable trends - rural and urban, day and night, old and young - harassers of all ages and backgrounds operate everywhere and with impunity.
  We now have 700 volunteers working directly in the streets, public transportation, schools and universities, plus a reporting system that helps us document (and prove!) the problem. Now we want to launch a public campaign across Egypt to reach the mass population.

• African Commission holds Egypt to account for failure to protect women demonstrators from sexual violence
  16 March 2013, by siawi3

  The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has handed down a decision in a case concerning violence against four women journalists during a protest. “The decision is a victory for women who face sexual violence and other forms of political and social impediments while exercising their right to participate in public life”. “For the first time in its 25 year history, the Commission has handed down a decision on the duty of states to protect women from violence”.

• Muslim Brotherhood Slams U.N. Women’s Rights Declaration
  16 March 2013, by siawi3

  The Muslim Brotherhood slammed a U.N. declaration supporting women’s rights, but Egypt’s women activists aren’t worried – and say their movement is stronger than ever.

• 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.

• How our generation sees Shahbagh - Khushi Kabir
  11 March 2013, by siawi3

  One of the biggest crimes committed were the rapes, but that has not been given the priority neither by the prosecutors, in the trial, nor the media. The ‘victimisation’ of women during war is a deliberate and patriarchal ‘weapon’ used against those being subjugated. Since this is happening, we don’t know if we will ever witness such a happening again, let us join the movement, raise our slogans, our voices, our demands and this is the time that we can bring feminist and secular demands to a mass uprising.

• Egypt - National Council on Women, on sexual assaults in Tahrir Square
  14 March 2013, by siawi3

  The National Council for Women (NCW) calls on all women and girls who were subjected to any form of violence or violations during their participation in the demonstrations to approach it to consider initiating a lawsuit against the perpetrators.

• The UN Commission On The Status Of Women Unmasks Equality’s Enemies
  1 April 2013, by siawi3

  There might not be many things the Vatican and the Muslim Brotherhood agree on, but one is keeping women ’in their place’

• Activists Welcome Hard-fought UN Agreement On Women’s Rights
  1 April 2013, by siawi3

  The agreement was hard fought and civil society groups expressed “deep concern” over attempts by some conservative member states and groups to derail the process and undermine previous agreements. “The process has raised some clear red flags about the state of global thinking on women’s rights. A small but significant number of countries, led by Iran, Russia, Syria and the Vatican, have pushed hard to roll back language on women’s rights to where we were decades ago.”

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