Syrian women’s rights activist found dead in region controlled by pro-Turkish militias. ECCHR ( European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights) In Syria, those who stand up for democracy, and for women’s rights in particular, continue to lose their lives. On the morning of 27 February, the Syrian human rights activist Heba Haj Aref was […]
A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT By MAGGIE MICHAEL Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe say they were sexually assaulted at gunpoint by RSF paramilitary and Arab militia forces during attacks on the city of El Geneina in West Darfur. ‘For three days, they were raping me,’ one teenager […]
The Western crusade to rescue Muslim women has reduced them to a simplistic stereotype LILA ABU-LUGHOD | TIME A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctions between conservatives and liberals, sexists and feminists. The crusade has justified all manner of intervention from […]
This interview was published by University of California Press on September 2023 Renowned scholar-activist Cynthia Enloe’s new book Twelve Feminist Lessons of War lays out the lessons that women activists have drawn from their immediate experiences of war. Enloe draws on firsthand experiences of war from women in places as diverse as Ukraine, Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, Rwanda, […]
JESSICA CASSELL | FightBack The crisis of capitalism has given rise to a mood of questioning and mass movements across the world. From the Spanish Indignados, to the Syntagma Square in Greece, and more recently the Nuit Debout in France, youth are starting to take action and challenge the capitalist system. As part of this […]
Women are not natural pacifists, but feminism is a movement against violence and domination. Judith Levine| The Intercept THREE DAYS BEFORE Hamas committed the bloodiest attack on Israeli civilians in that country’s history, four days before the Israel Defense Forces responded with the most devastating collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in a long history of collective […]
By Caroline Hawley, diplomatic correspondent & Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. Announcing the decision, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Ms Mohammadi, 51, was honoured for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Her struggle has come at a “tremendous personal […]
Inana Hatim / Syrian Feminist Lobby I walked towards the promised square. All I carried was a heart beating to an unusual rhythm, music flowing through my veins, and words that never left my lips: “Down with fear… down with fear.” I didn’t know the secret of the sudden strength that overcame me; something inside […]
Alina Sajed, Sara Salem| Kohl Journal I am so tired of waiting,Aren’t you,For the world to become goodAnd beautiful and kind?Let us take a knifeAnd cut the world in two-And see what worms are eatingAt the rind.– Langston Hughes This special issue aims to interrogate and reimagine the location of gender and sexual politics in anticolonial […]
By Rima Flihan at Atlantic council Since August 20, protests and a general strike in the southern governorate of Sweida, which has a population of approximately 770,000, have persisted. Protesters have closed the headquarters of the Baath Party and removed pictures of dictator Bashar al-Assad from the streets and buildings of the city. These demonstrations call for a […]
