International

Dossier 28: Secularisms

For more than two decades, feminists have discussed the impact and mechanics of extreme right politico-religious forces and shared strategies of resistance against fundamentalisms. But, as feminists, we have yet to develop a coherent analysis of the concrete alternatives. Yet we need such an analysis in order to move beyond resistance and be more pro-active in our advocacy for an alternative vision of society.

Dossier 28: Paradoxing the secular in Latin America

Dossier 28: Introduction

Introduction

by: Cassandra Balchin

Dossier 28: Secularism as an alternative to fundamentalisms

Dossier 28: Secularism from an Islamic perspective

Dossier 28: Patriarchy in secular and religious varieties

Mondiale: Rencontre laïque internationale du 10 et 11 février 2007, France

«Aux racismes, aux communautarismes, aux exclusions nous opposons la lutte contre toutes les discriminations. C'est cela notre conception de la laïcité.»

Middle East: Beginning in Syria, women cycle across the region for peace

International: civil society campaigns for UN reform and a Fifth Women's World Conference in 2010

Their interactive website is creating groundswell support for a Fifth Women’s World Conference (5WWC) that in size and influence could be a step toward a change in planetary consciousness through the active involvement of women at all levels of society.

Israel-Syria: Druze bride cannot return to Golan Heights after her marriage

Since the late 1980s, Israel and Syria have allowed a small number of Golan Druze to cross the frontier on religious pilgrimages or to study. Women can also cross in both directions to get married - but they cannot cross back.