Towards a Future Without
Fundamentalisms Report Launch
A summary of the presentations and
discussions of the panel session "Towards a Future Without
Fundamentalisms" held in New York at the 55th CSW is now
available. Panellists from Catolicas por el derecho a
decidir-Mexico, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, and Soulforce shared
their experiences and strategies from a range of contexts.
Cultures,
Traditions and Violence Against Women: Human Rights Challenges
This presentation
by Farida Shaheed, Independent Expert in the field of cultural
rights, entitled "Cultures, Traditions and Violence Against
Women: Human Rights Challenges" was given during the 16th session
of the Human Rights Council, in a panel on Cultures, Traditions and VAW: Human Rights
Challenges.
Feminist
Review Examines Religion and Spirituality
For the first time
in its history, Feminist Review is focusing on
religion and spirituality in an edition edited by Lyn Thomas and Avtar
Brah, and including discussions on how secularization is being
re-thought from the perspective of gender.
Jewish.
Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish
feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as
Cassandra Balchin discovers while talking with Israeli Orthodox Jewish
feminist Dr. Debbie Weissman, Jewish politics in Israel is anything but
straightforward. For the full article please click here.
The
New Family Code Of Mali And Why Its Promulgation Has Been Delayed
The Personal
Status and Family Code of Mali was adopted in 2009 by the National
Assembly, but promulgation by the President of Mali has been delayed
due to the mobilization of Muslim religious organizations opposed to
it. AWID interviewed Djingarey Ibrahim Maiga, of Femmes et Droits
Humains, and Yaba Tamboura, of Collectif des Femmes du Mali (COFEM) on
the status of the law.
New
Resource from VNC & APC-WNSP: Strategizing Online Activism
Toolkit
While the Strategizing Online Activism Toolkit
has been designed primarily for the local partners and activists of the
Violence is Not our Culture campaign,
this can be a resource, too, for human rights activists who are keen to
develop their online activism and want to know where and how to to
start.
For more analysis
and resources, click here.
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