The most recent articles
The most recent articles
DR Congo / Document
Congolese Women Appeal to the UN Security Council to Help End Sexual Violence
Tuesday 17 June 2008
by A Coalition of 71 Congolese NGOs, representing the women of DRC
Your Excellencies,
In the name of Congolese women, we thank you for the attention you are giving to the scourge of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations. We believe the Security Council has an essential role to play in ending the abuses that we, and our sisters elsewhere, (...) > continue
France / Polemics
Muslim Women in France: Impossible Subjects?
Saturday 14 June 2008
by Catherine Raissiguier
How shall we analyse feminist new movement NPNS’ ability to garner so much political support and to sustain the kind of media visibility that they have since their eruption – with their catchy slogan "Neither Whore Nor Submissive" – on the French political scene? Young women who wear the scarf, young men who perform extreme forms of masculinity in the banlieues, along with beurettes and other children of immigrants, are all products of modern France, assesses this useful analyse. > continue
Iran / Strategy
Organizing a Movement without Changing it to an Organization
Monday 19 May 2008
by One Million Signature Campaign, Homa Maddah
How do we define optimal organizing of social movements? To make the discussion more specific and at the same time more tangible, I would like to define the concept of optimal organizing by using the example of our own women’s movement in Iran. In my opinion, optimal organizing has two characteristics: First, action around a "project" and second, horizontal division of work... > continue
PALESTINE / STORIES
From GAZA : Women Bloggers Speaking to You
Monday 5 May 2008
by Topics & Roses, Karine Gantin
"I started writing in 2000 when my parents’ home was demolished by the Israeli occupation army at the beginning of this intifada. I felt strongly that I should tell people abroad about my personal experience and about what’s happening in Gaza under occupation." > continue
EGYPT / SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Celebration in Cairo to honor prominent women of the strike movement
Wednesday 30 April 2008
On March 28 the New Woman Foundation organized a celebration in Cairo to honor women who have been prominent in the strike movement, as social strikes and riots increase in Egypt. Women strike leaders from the tax collectors’ movement, Misr Spinning and Weaving, and the Hinawi Tobacco Company in Damanhour were acknowledged, along with Na‘ma ‘Abduh, a resident of Wadi ‘Amar near Alexandria, who had organized her neighborhood to protest pollution from the cement dust from the Portland Cement Company, which was causing asthma and other illnesses. The oppositional middle-class intelligentsia, which had difficulty relating to the strike movement until late 2007, has begun to demonstrate more consistent solidarity with the working class and its demands. Here follow large excerpts from the article "Underbelly of Egypt’s Neoliberal Agenda’ published by Joel Beinin for Middle East Report Online. > continue
Iran / Analysis
The Campaign: A Unique but not an Exclusive Experience
Wednesday 9 April 2008
by One Million Signature Campaign, Hoda Aminian
The One Million Signatures Campaign is different from other movements and actions that have taken place previously in the arena of women’s rights in two ways:
1. Active participation of a large number of predominantly young volunteers in this movement, whereas in the past the discussion of (...) > continue
IRAN / CALL FOR SUPPORT
Khadijeh Moghaddam Member of Campaign and Mother’s Committee Arrested
Wednesday 9 April 2008
by One Million Signature Campaign
On the morning of April 8th, security police forcibly entered the home of Khadijeh Moghaddam, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and arrested her. Khadijeh Moghaddam who is a member of the Mother’s Committee of the Campaign was transferred to Eshrat Abad (...) > continue
IRAN / IMPORTANT SPEECH
Parvin Ardalan: Text of Speech Delivered at the Olaf Palme Foundation
Tuesday 8 April 2008
by Parvin Ardalan, One Million Signature Campaign
The following is the English Text of the speech of Parvin Ardalan, delivered via video during the ceremony where she was presented with the Olaf Palme Award. Parvin Ardalan was due to travel to Stockholm on March 3, but was banned from travel at the last minute. Her sister received the award in her place. Change for Equality. > continue
NIGER / SLAVERY
Historic Slavery Case Launched against Niger (Press Release, 3 April 2008)
In a historic first, a former slave is bringing a case against the State of Niger before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice in Niamey on 7 April 2008, on the grounds that Niger has failed to implement laws against slavery.
Despite the (...) > continue
AZERBAIDJAN / CALL FOR SUPPORT
Olaf Palme Price ARZU ABDULLAYEVA joined the starvation action started by the imprisoned journalist EYNULLA FATULLAYEV
Monday 31 March 2008
by Helsinki Citizens’Assembly
Dear friends,
Public figures join the starvation action started by Eynulla Fatullayev, the editor in chief of the newspapers "Gundalik Azerbaijan" and "Realniy Azerbaijan" who was sentenced for 8 and half years of imprisonment for defamation.
Firstly, today on March 31, 2008, Arzu (...) > continue
