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Our Own Harvard Fellow, Naureen Shameem, Delivers the Report on the Issue of Discrimination Against Women on behalf of the WHRD-IC

Our own Harvard Fellow, Naureen Shameem, delivered a statement on the report of the Working Group on the issue of Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice on behalf of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) on June 3rd at the 23rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

CSW 57 Panel - Global Campaign to Stop Stoning: Why Stoning Is Violence Against Women

On March 8th, 2013, Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and its partner organisations gathered in New York during the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to launch The Global Campaign to Stop Stoning Women.

MENA: Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed discuss FP "Why DoThey Hate US" piece

There has been much controversy over a piece written by journalist Mona Eltahawy in the most recent issue of Foreign Policy Magazine entitled "Why Do They Hate Us: The Real War on Women is in the Middle East". Here Eltahawy and renouned scholar Leila Ahmed discuss the controversy. 

 

Iran: Zanan TV Launches!

Zanan TV  was launched on 25 November 2011, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This day was chosen because Zanan TV is an alternative space for marginalized women who are violated by the state and silenced by mainstream media in Iran. It is a space for building the women’s movement and the democracy movement in Iran.

Libya: Eman al-Obeidi in-person interview on CNN

On Wednesday, Eman Al-Obeidi, the woman who attempted to tell foreign journalists of her abuse and rape by regime forces but was taken away by security, appeared on camera in a CNN interview. The interview was arranged by Saadi Qaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader, but transmission was held up for 18 hours by Libyan officials who wanted to review the tape. The video --- unaltered, according to CNN --- was finally transmitted yesterday afternoon.

Libya: Eman al-Obeidi Interview with Anderson Cooper of CNN

 Complete interview by phone on Monday April 4, 2011.

Al-Jazeera interviews on Arab feminism

Riz Khan is joined by Rabab al-Mahdi, a professor of political science at the American University in Cairo; Frances Hasso, a professor of Women's Studies at Duke University; and Nadje al-Ali, a social anthropologist at the University of London. What role have Arab women played in the popular uprisings around the Middle East and what stake do they really have in their countries' political future? 

Tunis: Marche des femmes

Ce 29 janvier 2010, à l'initiative de:
·L'Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates (ATFD).
· L'Association des femmes tunisiennes pour la recherche et le développement
· Le Collectif Maghreb-Egalité. La commission femmes de l'Union générale tunisienne du travail (UGTT)
· La commission femmes de la Ligue tunisienne de défense des droits de l'homme (LTDH).
de15 heures à 18 heures,Tunis, avenue Habib-Bourguiba, statut Ibn-Khaldoun
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Tunisia: Woman sings "I am free, my word is free" during candle vigil

Sri Lanka: Why women in politics always matters: A conversation with Chulani Kodikara

In this Groundviews interview, the interviewer asks WLUML Council member, Chulani Kodikara, about affirmative action, and also whether for example, the entry of telegenic females sans political acumen to parliament in any way helps advocacy on stronger female representation. Pegged to this, he also questions her about substantive equality, that goes beyond, in her own words, the classical liberal notion of formal equality which assume that removing formal barriers, for example giving women the right to vote and be elected to political office, is sufficient to give women equal access to political institutions.

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