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Ghaza / Massive Attack by Israel / Protest
Call for an immediate cessation of the aggression by the Israeli military forces in Gaza (ISRAEL PALESTINE)
Sunday 28 December 2008
by IWC - International Women’s Commission
The International Women’s Commission (IWC) for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace demands an immediate cessation of the aggression by the Israeli military forces in Gaza, which has already cost hundreds of lives.
This slaughter can only further fuel the conflict and quash any (...) > continue
Palestine / Portrait
A Profile of Palestinian Women’s Political Participation within the Hamas Party (ISRAEL PALESTINE)
Thursday 17 July 2008
by Cheryl Rettig
The 2006 Palestinian national elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip resulted in the largest increase ever of women members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). After the ballots were tallied, six women from Hamas, eight from Fatah, and three from democratic political parties were (...) > continue
Iran / Strategy
Organizing a Movement without Changing it to an Organization (IRAN)
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 (ISRAEL PALESTINE)
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 (Middle East)
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 (IRAN)
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 (IRAN)
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 (IRAN)
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
IRAN / SCANDAL
Parvin Ardalan, Banned from Travel While on Way to Receive Olaf Palme Award (IRAN)
Wednesday 5 March 2008
by One Million Signature Campaign
Change for Equality: Parvin Ardalan was banned from travel early this morning, March 3, 2008, while on her way to Stockholm, Sweden, to take part in a ceremony in her honor as the recipient of the 2007 Olaf Palme Award. Ardalan, went through the passport check point and boarded the plane (...) > continue
IRAQ / ANALYSIS
Iraq’s women under pressure (IRAQ)
Monday 18 February 2008
by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
As the author’s organisation for Iraqi women "Act Together" prepares an event for 10th of March in London, we publish here a well known text by her as published in English by Le Monde Diplomatique 2007. Nadje Al-Ali challenges here the misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed historical gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. > continue