France

2017: UN Unveils

Marieme Helie Lucas

July 2, 2017

2017. This year, Saudi Arabia will defend women’s rights in the Commission on the Status of Women, and UN Women will support the right to disappear women behind a veil. Aren’t we lucky?

From its official Twitter account, UN Women tweeted an article posted online on Jul 2 2017, 4:17pm at:

Hijab Day’ in Paris 2016

‘Hijab Day’ in Paris 2016

by Lalia Ducos and Zazi Sadou, Algerian feminists

Introduction by Marieme Helie Lucas

April 24, 2016

France: "Support the right to make fun of extremists": an interview with Caroline Fourest

We are facing a political threat, a totalitarian Islamist threat that manifests in terrorism. Journalists are defending something which is elementary to our democracy: our freedom to breathe and to laugh.

Charlie Hebdo: "There is no way they will make us put down our pens."

Pen against kalashnikov: courage against atrocity. People of Muslim heritage call for combatting Islamist ideology by political means and mass mobilisation.

France and Islamic feminism: intersectionality in the Republic

ADRIANE CHOUKOUR WALI

The fact is that Islamic feminists in western countries, and especially in France, struggle with identity affiliations and fight against multiple forms of oppression that bind them to post-colonial and anti-racist movements.

France and Islamic feminism: intersectionality in the Republic

As the presidency of François Hollande commenced its third year, French society is revealing its profound division between progressive and reactionary stances on gender equality and race issues. The latest protests “Manif pour Tous”, led by Christian rightwing movements against gay marriage were followed by the unbelievable alliance of Black anti-Semitic Dieudonné with the French far-right. “Jour de Colère”, the “Anti-Hollande” protest, gathered together on January 26 the Christian right, extreme right supporters, anti-Islam and anti-Semitic groups.

France : Touche pas au voile !

Pourquoi s’attaquer à Caroline Fourest ? L’ignorance ? Ou l’intimidation ? Ne touche pas au voile !

« Quand ils sont venus arrêter un juif, je n’ai rien dit, car je n’étais pas un juif. Quand ils sont venus arrêter une communiste, je n’ai rien dit, car je n’étais pas un communiste. Quand ils sont venus arrêter un homosexuel, je je n’ai rien dit, car je n’étais pas un homosexuel. ,Quand ils sont venus m’arrêter, il n’y avait plus personne pour dire quelque » Pasteur Martin Niemöller. Elle est connue pour ses engagements de lutte contre l’extrême droite et contre le FN. C’est sa spécialité. Elle a écrit et réalisé de nombreuses enquêtes (livres et documentaires) à ce sujet (1).

France: 'Un père tente d'immoler sa fille à Paris'

La jeune fille de 23 ans a réussi à échapper à son agresseur qui essayait d'allumer son briquet après l'avoir aspergé d'essence.

France: « "Mademoiselle", la fin ou presque »

Les termes « mademoiselle » et autre « nom de jeune fille » sont officiellement appelés à disparaître des documents administratifs. Mais les associations restent vigilantes.

Mademoiselle, le début de la fin ? Nous posions la question il y a un mois. La réponse est claire aujourd'hui : c'est oui. Le terme « mademoiselle » va disparaître des documents administratifs.

France: 'Paris, October 17, 1961: 50 Years on From a Dark Day'

Fifty years ago, the Parisian police brutally suppressed a demonstration of 30,000 Algerian workers protesting against a discriminatory and racist curfew banning them from the capital’s streets at night. The march was peaceful, but by the end of the night over 200 Algerians were dead and 11,000 had been arrested and detained in horrific circumstances by French police units.

The date, barely known outside France, is undoubtedly one of the city’s darkest episodes, and survivors of the repression and relatives of those killed are still seeking the truth about what happened that night, and full recognition of the role the authorities played on October 17, 1961.