The most recent articles
The most recent articles
How to mark 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (Zimbabwe)
Saturday 8 December 2007
by Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
While president Mugabe’s participation is challenged in Lisbon at African-European Summit by journalists reporting about social and political realities in Zimbabwe, we publish recent news by WOZA itself, both about repression and last big demonstration against Gender Violence. Two women activists arrested during a meeting are indeed currently in custody, WOZA calls to put pressure. Besides, around 1,000 of their activists marched on November 27, 2007 to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence officially beginning the day after. The peaceful yet enthusiastic protest also commemorated the anniversary of the 29 November launch of the People’s Charter last year. The late Maria Moyo, who recently passed away after the trauma of being abducted by police, was also in the minds and hearts of members... > continue
Another arrest in crackdown on cyber-feminists (Iran)
Friday 7 December 2007
by Reporters sans Frontières
In this important release, the Internet department of Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of feminist campaigners and Internet writers Jelveh Javaheri and Maryam Hosseinkhah who are both being charged with publishing false information, “disturbing public opinion” and “publicity against the Islamic Republic". Jelveh and Maryam are members of the One Million Signature Campaign in Iran, which is a major collective feminist and social movement led there by the younger generation in order to change the laws and debate widely with the population about the current discriminations encountered by women. > continue
24/11/2007. More than 100.000 women in the streets of Rome for the “Violence against Women” International Day (Italy)
Thursday 6 December 2007
by Topics & Roses
More than 100,000 women, maybe 150,000, marched on Rome on November 24, 2007 to bring attention to violence against women from Piazza della Repubblica to Piazza Navona.
Women’s organizations from all over Italy had prepared the event during two monthes. They came to the march with colorful (...) > continue
“Reasonable Accommodation”: A Feminist Response (Quebec)
Wednesday 5 December 2007
by Institut Simone de Beauvoir, Université Concordia, Québec
As anti-racist, anti-colonial feminists in Québec, we have serious misgivings about the Commission de Consultation sur les pratiques d’accommodement reliées aux différences culturelles. The Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec (CSF) has proposed that the Québec Charter be changed so as to accord (...) > continue
IRAQ / TRADE-UNIONS
“It’s becoming more and more risky for an Iraqi woman to work” Trade-Unionist Hashemiyya Muhsin Hussein
Wednesday 5 December 2007
by ITUC CSI
Defying the anti-union legislation inherited from the old regime, which prohibits unions in public services, fighting to improve the poor wage and health and safety conditions… many are the challenges facing Hashemiyya M. Hussein, president of the Electricity Workers’ Union of Basra. Also a member of the Executive of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers of Basra and the ICEM Women’s Committee for the Middle East and North Africa, Hashemiyya embodies the very active trade unionism in this southern region of Iraq, where insecurity is nonetheless rife. Brussels, 28 November 2007, Interview with Hashemiyya Muhsin Hussein (Iraq - GFIW) by ITUC. > continue
Jelveh Javaheri, Campaign Member Arrested, Maryam Hosseinkhah Remains in Prison (Iran)
Saturday 1 December 2007
by One Million Signature Campaign
Jelveh Javaheri, a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, and a regular writer for the site of Change for Equality (official website of the One Million Signature Campaign), was arrested earlier today, Saturday December 1, 2007, after an interrogation session at the security branch of the Revolutionary Courts. Resisting Women, who has been supportive of the Campaign over the last monthes and by a recent initiative in Paris November 24, 2007, asks for her immediate release and sends warm solidarity regards to all Iranian Campaigners.RW > continue
More than 1,000 Equal Rights Defenders Protest imprisonment of Maryam Hosseinkhah (Iran)
Wednesday 28 November 2007
by One Million Signature Campaign
Change for Equality: Monday November 25, In a statement issued yesterday on Sunday November 24, more than 1,000 equal rights defenders have protested the imprisonment of Maryam Hosseinkhah, while claiming, that all those who seek equal rights for women and a remedy to the negative impact of discriminatory laws, are as responsible as Maryam. The text of the Statement in English appears below : > continue
Clear Examples of Inequality : A Report from Prison (Iran)
Monday 26 November 2007
by One Million Signature Campaign, Maryam Hosseinkhah
This article was written by Maryam Hosseinkhah from Evin Prison. Maryam Hosseinkhah was called to court on November 17 in relation to her activities and writings in defense of equal rights for women. On the 18th, a very high bail order was issued in her case. Because of her inability to post this high bail, an arrest warrant was issued and she was transferred to Evin Prison, Ward 3, which is general ward for non-violent offenders. Read updates about the case of Maryam and others currently in detention for their activities in support of the Campaign, namely Ronak Safarzadeh and Hand Abdi in Kurdistan, in the Campaigners section of this website. > continue
Can the Subaltern speak German? Postcolonial Critique.
Wednesday 21 November 2007
by Hito Steyerl
The debate on cultural globalization also often involves so-called postcolonial theory. What does this encompass? In the reception of these kinds of approaches in German-speaking countries, however, theoretical and artistic approaches that come from the local history of migration and minoritization are almost never taken into consideration... This is a fundamental, theoretical text that has contributed to the German postcolonial feminist debate and to the debate about relationships between international analysis of globalisation and the necessary interpretation of local cultures and history... even in Germany. > continue
IRAN : Maryam Hosseinkhah, Journalist and Member of the Campaign Arrested
Tuesday 20 November 2007
by Topics & Roses, One Million Signature Campaign
Iran, after Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi, still detained in prison, without access to their families nor to lawyers, new arrestation of a Campaign activist for women’s rights with charges of disruption of public opinion, propaganda against the state, and publication of lies by security forces. Resisting Women asks for their immediate release and calls for solidarity by all international solidarity & feminist movements. RW > continue
