An Icon that has marked women’s history in Afghanistan The Woman Who Defied Traditional Gender Roles and Stood up to the Taliban Dr. Sohilala Siddiqi, one of Afghanistan’s most respected surgeons and the country’s first female minister of health, died on December 4th, 2020, at the age of 72. Siddiqi was Afghanistan’s only female lieutenant...
Cairo will be the setting for WLUML’s third transformational feminist leadership workshop (and the second for the Middle East and North Africa region) between the 7th and 14th of December this year. The workshop – part of our Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation programme (WELDD) – will bring together young female activists from...
Since it was first launched in 1991, WLUML has hosted a number of transnational actions in connection with the annual 16 Days Campaign against Gender-Based Violence.
This program aims to develop understandings of justice that will improve women’s lived realities and respect their rights.
Iranian women risk arrest: Daughters of the revolution (theconversation.com)
I’ve always felt that I have an inside voice which guides me and opens my eyes to the kind of things that many other women feel nothing towards and just cope with. I was born in a country which suffers from a hierarchical authority. What makes this worse is that the women inside it are...
Women Living Under Muslim Laws, in collaboration with London Middle Eastern Institute, organised a screening of the Trials of Spring at SOAS, University of London, on the 28th of October 2015. These hard-hitting, forceful and stirring short films centred on the experience of women during the Arab Revolution of 2011. Featuring activists from Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria,...
Bustling Senegal set the scene for passionate debate, robust reflection, slam poetry and much laughter this April at the first West Africa transformative feminist leadership workshop – brought together by our Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratization programme (WELDD). An impressive group of emerging female leaders from Mali, Niger and Senegal came together for...
There are some stories that remain with you. One such incident is of a young 15-year-old girl, Aliya*. The eldest of seven children, her mother and father had their hands full with the younger children. Aliya was neglected emotionally, and in order to grasp the attention of her parents or to find someone to appreciate or...
Just the other week, on Sunday, December 2nd, a tenth grader from Mahmoud Raqi Girls High School in Kapisa Province of Afghanistan was shot seven times by a group of men while she was walking home from school. Anisa was a volunteer for a polio vaccination campaign ran by the Ministry of Public Health. Anisa was...
