Paper on the Principles of the Syrian Civil Family Law’s Including the Aspired to Anti-Domestic Violence Law, which Is Aspired Aligning with the International Conventions and the Human Rights Charter. This paper is based on three workshops organized and prepared by the Syrian Feminist Lobby (SFL) in November and December 2022, and attended by feminist organizations, civil […]
NILOOFAR HOOMAN – The Conversation | On Sept. 16, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died in Tehran while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Her death set off a massive wave of demonstrations that have spread across the country. While the protests started with anger over the enforcement of the hijab, they represent a much […]
Alaa Nassar — Syria Direct | Razan Zaitouneh, Samirah al-Khalil, May Skaf, Fadwa Suleiman. These are the names of women who have become, with many other Syrian women, defining figures and symbols of the Syrian revolution. The Syrian revolution was sparked in 2011 by the Assad regime’s brutal response to peaceful demonstrations. Women’s contributions to […]
Leah Dolan, CNN | Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi was 10 when wearing the veil became compulsory at the non-religious, French-speaking school she attended in Tehran. Previously, boys and girls were taught together, but she was soon also separated from her male friends in the name of a cultural revolution instigated by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah […]
Emily Dickinson – 1830-1886 I cannot live with You – It would be Life – And Life is over there – Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to – Putting up Our Life – His Porcelain – Like a Cup – Discarded of the Housewife – Quaint – or Broke – A newer Sevres pleases – Old Ones crack – I could not die – with You – For One must […]
Delivered 1851 Women’s Rights Convention, Old Stone Church (since demolished), Akron, Ohio Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty […]
EuroMed Feminist Initiative – Le dialogue politique régional sur la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles et sur le renforcement des droits des femmes dans le contexte de la pandémie de Covid-19 s’est tenu en ligne en partenariat avec le Ministère du développement social du royaume hachémite de Jordanie, le 21 […]
EuroMed Feminist Initiative – Dans le cadre du programme financé par le programme SIDA ” Soutenir la transition politique en Syrie par une reconstruction sociale sensible au genre ” et en préparation de la Conférence de Bruxelles: ” Soutenir l’avenir de la Syrie et de la région ” (9-10 mai 2022), Initiative Féministe EuroMed et […]
BBC- A female Iranian climber who competed with her hair uncovered did so because her hijab fell off “inadvertently”, a post on her Instagram account says. Elnaz Rekabi, 33, was praised by those protesting against Iran’s dress code after video showed her violating it at the Asian Championships in South Korea. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63297219
Ernaux’s writing has spoken particularly to women and to others who, like her, come from a working class seldom depicted with such clarity in literature. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/books/annie-ernaux-nobel-prize-literature.html
