International

Occasional Paper 2: Strategies of Women and Women’s Movements in the Muslim World vis-à-vis Fundamentalisms: From Entryism to Internationalism

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Worldwide: 4th global women's strike - 8 March 2003

On International Women's Day women in over 70 countries will take Strike action to strengthen the hidden struggle of women all over the world for survival, against military budgets and killing economic priorities.

Mondial: la quatrième grève mondiale des femmes

Lors de la journée internationale de la femme 2003, nous vous invitons à vous impliquer avec des femmes de nombreux pays.

Reaching Out, Changing Our Lives, Outreach Strategies and Women Living Under Muslim Laws

Based on the sharing that took place at the 1999 WLUML Outreach Strategies Exchange Programme meeting, this tool documents some of the network’s experiences of outreach and identifies the basic principles that underlie outreach activities – no matter how diverse the actual activities have been across the Network With the aim of inspiring experimentation and dialogue among groups conducting outreach activities, it shared strategies at both general and specific illustrative levels.

Women in the Qur'an: Qur’anic Interpretation by Women Meeting: Information Kit

Revealed narratives and legislation are then pursued through their medieval, modern, and contemporary interpretations. The theological exegetic sources here chosen, all Sunni, include the major classical works as well as, for the modern period, examples of modernist, traditionalist, and fundamentalist exegesis. For Hadith materials beyond the theological tafsir, Stowasser analyzes both popular narratives of the "tales of the prophets" genre and representative samples of the classical historical and legal hadith.

Riffat Hassan: Selected Articles

Interview and articles from Riffat Hassan, the progressive theologian and academic specialized in Islamic sciences. Riffat Hassan defends a more humane, democratic and feminist interpretation of Islam in general and of the Quran and other sacred texts in particular (in French).

Worldwide: "I'm not going to respond to terrorism by becoming a terrorist"

If you'd lost a loved one, would you want revenge? As the world edges closer to war, Rachel Shabi of the UK newspaper 'The Guardian' talks to relatives who believe retaliation is wrong.

Dossier 23-24: Constructing Identities - Culture, Women’s Agency and the Muslim World

The Muslim world in context

Internationally, it has become quite fashionable to speak of living in a global village. The expression is usually intended to positively express the linkages now established throughout the world, the similarities of issues confronting the different people who inhabit it and our ability, therefore, to connect with one another.

Dossier 23-24: The Politics of Theorizing ‘Islamic Feminism’: Implications for International Feminist Movements

While the increasing internationalization of feminism provides new prospects for women’s solidarity throughout the world, theoretical perspectives such as identity politics, cultural relativism and postmodernism emphasize the uniqueness, particularism, and localism of each and every feminist movement.

Worldwide: Seven women to serve on the International Criminal Court

After 33 rounds of balloting, 18 judges have finally been elected to the International Criminal Court.