Violence

Articles

• Philippines: torture by non state actors ?
  12 December 2009, by siawi2
  The Anti-Torture Law: a good advance but misses out on non-state torture
  GARCIA, “Bobby”, SANTOS Soliman, Jr
  24 August 2009
  “Torture is torture, whoever does it.
  The same is true of terrorism.”
  C. Douglas Lumis, Terror and the Terrorist
  (Penang:  (...)
• Un tribunal islámico en España
  19 de diciembre de 2009, por siawi2
  source : El Pais
  «Veinte hombres con turbante me condenaron a muerte» Primera causa en España contra un tribunal islámico que supuestamente aplicó la ’sharía’ a una mujer - La magrebí había denunciado a su pareja por maltrato
  FERRAN BALSELLS -  (...)
• Indonesia / Aceh: Sharia police arrested for ‘rape’
  13 January 2010, by siawi2
  http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/01/12/sharia-police-arrested-%E2%80%98rape%E2%80%99.html
  Source: Hotli Simanjuntak , The Jakarta Post , Banda Aceh, Aceh ; Tue, 01/12/2010
  A serious blow to the credibility and morality of Sharia  (...)
• Copts in wrath following Egypt’s bloodiest Christmas
  9 January 2010, by siawi2
  Naga Hammadi Copts attack
  Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm. Thu, 07/01/2010
  Qena—Seven people have been killed in a drive-by shooting outside a church in Egypt as Christians left a late night mass on the eve of Coptic Christmas.
  Officials said three  (...)
• Les fondamentalismes et les droits humains
  9 octobre 2009, par siawi2

  Ce document de 74 pages, publié par Rights & Democracy, livre les conclusions d’une rencontre de féministes défenseures des droits humains qui s’est tenue à Montreal en mai 2005.Il dénonce l’instrumentalisation abusive de la culture et de la religion, la façon dont les organisations de droits humains s’abritent derrière le problème droit privé/droit public et acteurs étatiques/acteurs non étatiques pour ne pas traiter des violations des droits humains commis par les fondamentalistes.

• USA: Mosque vandalized, once more
  28 March 2017, by siawi3

  Mosque in Fort Collins, Colorado ‘seriously’ vandalized. Someone threw a Bible through the glass doors. The doors were broken with large stones or bricks. Existing and proposed mosque sites across the country have been targeted for vandalism.

• Indian elections: the challenges of unseating a racist
  16 April 2019, by siawi3

  The Union Minister of State in Modi’s cabinet, has openly stated that the BJP aims to change the constitution. The RSS said that the Manu-smriti (a religious text of Hindu law) should be India’s constitution. This text describes the subordinate status of women and oppressed castes, and recommends punishments for inter-caste marriage, for Dalits and people from oppressed castes who read the scriptures.The RSS would like to replace the constitution with something closer to its idea of India being a Hindu nation, as opposed to a secular country where people, regardless of denomination, religion or gender, have equal rights as citizens.

• ex-Yugoslavia: a philosopher, a biologist and a mathematician speak
  12 October 2010, by siawi2
  on the erosion of secularism
  Seminar “threatening signs of fundamentalism – feminist and democratic answers”
  Lecture, Jastrebac Lino Veljak, philosopher
  Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb In the middle ages there was the principle of organic unity  (...)
• Everyday Racism and Prejudice in India
  29 March 2017, by siawi3

  The Association of African students in India is calling on the government of India to taking concrete steps to protect the lives and properties of all African students in India. These students face widespread racism in everyday lives in India.

• Gambia: calls for withdrawal of the case
  22 October 2010, by siawi2
  Coalition for Human Rights in the Gambia
  21 october 2010
  URGENT: The Gambia: Women’s Rights Defenders Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang-Sissoho released on bail with outrageous bail conditions: A Call for the withdrawal of the case.
  After  (...)

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