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Lamenting a Dream (IRAN)
Tuesday 6 November 2007
by One Million Signature Campaign, Delaram Ali
In her original trial the author of this magnificent text Delaram Ali was sentenced to 2 years and ten months prison term and 20 lashings, which was reduced to 2 years and 6 months and ten lashings in a ruling issued by the appeals court announced November 4. The courts have contacted Delaram in regards to implementing her sentence by the end of the week. > continue
A Day in the Life of an Iranian One Million Signature Campaigner (IRAN)
Friday 2 November 2007
by One Million Signature Campaign, Nahid Mir Haj
The feminist one-year-old One Million Signature Campaign goes on with its impressive work despite repression. Resisting Women is happy to republish this article sensitively featuring one day in the life of an active Campaigner... (The picture features Iranian Peace Nobel Price Sherin Ebadi, supporter of the One Million Signature Campaign) > continue
IRAN : Thirteen Equal Rights Defenders Summoned to Court / Campaign Member Maziar Samiee Arrested (IRAN)
Friday 2 November 2007
by One Million Signature Campaign
Feminist platform Change for Equality, One Million Signature Campaign, Iran : Thirteen equal rights defenders have been summoned to court for trials which are scheduled to take place over the next two months. The trial of Zara Amjadian was held on Saturday October 27th, 2007. Besides Amjadian (...) > continue
PALESTINE-ISRAEL / DOCUMENT
IWC position on the upcoming Annapolis Conference (ISRAEL PALESTINE)
Wednesday 31 October 2007
by IWC - International Women’s Commission
Here is the press release by the International Women’s Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace (IWC) about the U.S.-sponsored Annapolis conference about the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian issue, scheduled to take place in November 2007. > continue
Can the Politics of the European Union be a Remedy for Polish Homophobia? (POLAND)
Saturday 27 October 2007
by Alicja Kowalska
This essay examines the reaction of the European Union politicians to Polish homophobia and deliberates on the strength of their influence and the reasons of their relative failure. It insists on building a society open to pluralism and diversity and on promoting civic initiatives. It also provides an insight into how Polish politicians have been dealing with the issue of sexual minorities and their rights during the last two years and brings up the examples of hate speech and open homophobia that has entered the language of the Polish political establishment. Written in october 2006, this text has been presented as a statement in July 2007 in Piekary (Poland) by the annual gathering of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Network, this year dedicated to the topic "New forms of xenophobia and antiracist fights in Europe". > continue
Mexico/Chiapas : December 2007, convoking the 3rd Encuentro of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World, Topic "Comandanta Ramona and the women Zapatistas" (America South & North)
Friday 26 October 2007
by Compañera Zapatista Everilda
This is the English translation of Compañera Everilda’s words convoking the 3rd Encuentro of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World, on topic "Comandanta Ramona and the women Zapatistas", followed by the link to the movie in memory of Comandanta Ramona, who died 2006 as she was 47. > continue
Esther Stevens, Trade Unionist : "I advise workers not to flee; there are so many ways to deal with the situation." (South Africa) (Africa)
Thursday 25 October 2007
by ITUC CSI
Esther Stevens has been a domestic worker for 45 years and is the president of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers’ Union, SADSAWU. She talks about how difficult but also how important it is to organise these workers, who are among the most exploited. > continue
Marie Josée Lokongo Bosiko, trade-unionist : « Our best defenders are ourselves » (Congo-RDC) (Africa)
Thursday 18 October 2007
by ITUC CSI
As sexual violence increases in a terrifying way in Congo at war, pushing our Resisting Women Network to a coming initiative in Paris about this subject very soon, we wish to publish this excellent trade-unionist interview made this summer for ITUC on specific trade-union and women topics, in sign by us of solidarity with all Congolese Women, victims as well as fighters for another world.
Marie Josée Lokongo Bosiko is the Vice President of the UNTC (National Union of Congolese Workers). She talks about the obstacles in the way of Congolese women trying to assert themselves in the workplace and the trade union movement, and shares her formula for overcoming them, in an interview made this summer for ITUC. She also tells us about how the UNTC is fighting AIDS and attracting informal economy workers to the union movement.
> continueWorld March of Women Manifesto – 17th October 2007 (Other texts and analyses)
Wednesday 17 October 2007
We are once again mobilising on 17th October in order to denounce and demand an end to the oppression of women and to the domination, exploitation, egotism and unbridled quest for profit breeding injustice, war, conquest and violence.
Our feminist struggles and those of our foremothers on (...) > continue
IRAN : Arrest of Ronak Safazadeh Campaign Member in Kurdistan (IRAN)
Thursday 11 October 2007
Breaking News. Ronak Safazadeh, a member of the big feminist One Million Signatures Campaign, has been arrested at her home in Sanandaj, Kurdistand on Tuesday October 9, 2007. We ask for her liberation. > continue
