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Muslim Women in France : Impossible Subjects ?
samedi 14 juin 2008
par Catherine Raissiguier
How shall we analyse feminist new movement NPNS’ ability to garner so much political support and to sustain the kind of media visibility that they have since their eruption – with their catchy slogan "Neither Whore Nor Submissive" – on the French political scene ? Young women who wear the scarf, young men who perform extreme forms of masculinity in the banlieues, along with beurettes and other children of immigrants, are all products of modern France, assesses this useful analyse. > suite
AZERBAIDJAN / CALL FOR SUPPORT
Olaf Palme Price ARZU ABDULLAYEVA joined the starvation action started by the imprisoned journalist EYNULLA FATULLAYEV
lundi 31 mars 2008
par Helsinki Citizens’Assembly
Dear friends,
Public figures join the starvation action started by Eynulla Fatullayev, the editor in chief of the newspapers "Gundalik Azerbaijan" and "Realniy Azerbaijan" who was sentenced for 8 and half years of imprisonment for defamation.
Firstly, today on March 31, 2008, Arzu (...) > suite
FRANCE / BOOK
"Veil-Wearing Women Speak Out" : about an important book in France has just been published
vendredi 28 mars 2008
Mona : “The argument that the veil is a ‘symbol of oppression of women,’ begs the question for whom is it oppressive ? Not for me. I am free to make my choices, and if I chose to wear a veil, it is an expression of my liberty.”
Nadjer : “I had only just arrived. When they saw me with my veil, they (...) > suite
RUSSIA / LGBT
Russian Week against Homophobia (RWAHO), March 25-31, 2008
mardi 25 mars 2008
Why ?
It’s been 15 years since criminal prosecution of male homosexuality was finally repealed in Russia. For almost a decade same-sex attraction is no longer considered pathological among mainstream Russian medical specialists. But still Russian society as a whole embodies strong negative (...) > suite
ARMENIA / DEMOCRATIC PROTEST
Women Demonstrate In Yerevan
mercredi 19 mars 2008
Defying a state of emergency, more than two dozen women marched in Yerevan on Saturday 8th of March 2008 to pay their respects to at least eight people killed in the March 1 clashes between security forces and supporters of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian.
The protest was timed to (...) > suite
TURKEY / POLITICAL ANALYSIS
A Headscarf Affair, a Women’s Affair ?
lundi 10 mars 2008
par Nilüfer Göle
In Turkey, the recent parliamentary vote put an end to the headscarf ban, but not to the public controversy that has severely divided and deeply polarized Turkish society since the post-1980 period. Nilüfer Göle assesses the situation. > suite
AZERBAIDJAN / PERSONALITY
A strong protest for a peaceful conflict resolution in Nagorno-Karabakh by Arzu Abdullayeva (Azerbaidjan)
mercredi 9 janvier 2008
par Helsinki Citizens’Assembly
Azerbaidjan faces an increasing situation again of State repression against its civil society. In this context, Resisting Women publishes here some material related to a major personality among those threatened and about her initiatives courageously led in this country. Arzu Abdullayeva is co-chairwoman of the international NGO Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly (HCA), president of the HCA-Azerbaidjan Committee, and has been honored with the Olof Palme price for peace. She has given September 2006 a significant interview to daily Azadlig about the current repression against peace activists in her country and about the stake of a pacific conflict resolution activity supported by Azerbaidjani and Armenian civil societies in Nagorno-Karabakh... > suite
TURKEY / DOCUMENT
Women Call for Peace
mardi 8 janvier 2008
122 women, many of them well-known singers, actresses, writers, academics and journalists have gathered under the slogan "We have promised peace" and published their call for peace on the internet and in newspapers. Býa news centre - Ýstanbul (23 /12/ 2007) > suite
GERMANY / DOMESTIC LABOR / MIGRANTS
How social movements analyse - and mobilise on - female migrant domestic labour (Germany)
dimanche 6 janvier 2008
par RLS - Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
The ethnification of paid domestic work challenges leftist feminist theory and practice and requires new alliances by feminists with other social movements. In Germany, movements like Kanak Attak or Respekt Campaign, feminist marxists of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, have produced together with others, very interesting analyses, proposals and campaigns. Here to be read is a good overview of this work by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. > suite
Can the Subaltern speak German ? Postcolonial Critique.
mercredi 21 novembre 2007
par Hito Steyerl
The debate on cultural globalization also often involves so-called postcolonial theory. What does this encompass ? In the reception of these kinds of approaches in German-speaking countries, however, theoretical and artistic approaches that come from the local history of migration and minoritization are almost never taken into consideration... This is a fundamental, theoretical text that has contributed to the German postcolonial feminist debate and to the debate about relationships between international analysis of globalisation and the necessary interpretation of local cultures and history... even in Germany. > suite
