impact on women / resistance

• Saudi Arabia allows adult women to live independently without male guardian approval
  14 June, by siawi3

  The decision had come after high-profile attempts by women to escape their guardians despite a string of reforms. “A passport will be granted to any Saudi national who submits an application,” said a government ruling published in the official gazette Umm al-Qura. “Families can no longer file lawsuits against their daughters who choose to live alone.”

• Saudi Arabia allows women to register for Haj without male guardian
  14 June, by siawi3

  The landmark steps erode the longstanding guardianship system that renders adult women as legal minors and allows their “guardians” — husband, father and other male relatives — to exercise arbitrary authority over them.

• France : Le 11 juin 2021 nouvel hommage à Josette et Maurice Audin au cimetière du Père-Lachaise
  14 juin, par siawi3

  Une nouvelle loi sur les archives risque de créer de nouvelles entraves à leur accès

• Algérie: Pris en tenaille entre élections législatives et répression, où en est le hirak algérien ?
  12 June, by siawi3

  On ne peut que regretter, pour l’heure, l’absence de cristallisation révolutionnaire qui aurait exprimé, en actes, la remise en cause fondamentale du régime, de ses relais et de son idéologie ; c’est-à-dire la critique ouverte de la propriété, de l’État, du nationalisme et de la religion, mais aussi de la ségrégation sexuelle, des préjugés régionalistes, de la gérontocratie…

• Ces femmes qui défient les islamistes
  12 juin, par siawi3

  Au Soudan, en Tunisie, en Algérie ou en Iran, enquête sur les combattantes de la liberté.

• The Kids Are Reimagining International Solidarity
  12 June, by siawi3

  Millennial and Gen Z activists are connecting their struggles at home to the workings of US empire in Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries.
  “Solidarity means we’re all together in this. The colonial violence of Israel and the US is a threat to all of us as Palestinians, as Arabs, as women, as queer people and as people of color.”

• Feminism in France: All to the borders! A successful feminist and internationalist demonstration despite indifference and repression
  12 June, by siawi3

  About 5,000 people came to Nice on Saturday 5 June to demonstrate for a Europe without walls. [1] The aim was to make demands specifically concerning women, lesbians and trans people who suffer unbearable violence on their way into exile: for freedom of movement, for a dignified welcome, against all borders...

• Belgique : Jugement STIB : Un for intérieur très extérieur
  10 juin, par siawi3

  Je dois donc conclure que c’est bien en tant que femme supposée athée que je suis discriminée.

• UK: More people identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual in UK than ever before, ONS says
  10 June, by siawi3

  Men were almost twice as likely as women to identify as gay, while women were more likely to be bisexual than men.

• Sudanese protesters mark second anniversary of army massacre, demand justice
  10 June, by siawi3

  Hundreds of protesters were seen carrying the national flag and banners as they marched across the capital Khartoum to the cabinet building and the public prosecutor’s office. Dr. Fathi Elfad of the Sudanese Communist Party, while talking to Peoples Dispatch, had even accused some sections of the pro-democracy movement in government of betraying the movement. Last month, the security forces had opened fire on a similar protest, killing two protesters and wounding many others.

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