La militante des droits des femmes Khadijeh Moghaddam a été arrêtée par les forces de sécurité le 8 avril alors qu’elle se trouvait chez elle, à Téhéran. Accusée de « propagande contre l’État, perturbation de l’opinion publique et agissements contre la sécurité nationale », elle est détenue au centre de détention de Vozara à Téhéran.
The "South Asian Campaign to End All Violence against Women" - or the "We Can" campaign - addresses the fact that 50% of women in South Asia experience violence in their daily lives.
On 7 April 2007, Du'a Khalil Aswad was stoned to death in northern Iraq by members of her local Yezidi community, allegedly for loving a non-Yezidi boy.
La rue Bugeaud, située dans le 6e arrondissement de la ville de Lyon, sera rebaptisée “symboliquement” samedi prochain, au nom de Lalla Fatma N’soumer, figure de la résistance populaire algérienne contre la colonisation française.
L'avocate mauritanienne Fatimata Mbaye a publiquement accusé la police française de l'avoir «dénudée» et de lui avoir fait subir d'autres traitements «humiliants» et «dégradants» lors d'une interpellation à l'aéroport Roissy-Charles De Gaulle de Paris.
"Women's freedom means freedom for all. It is time to stand together," writes Houzan Mahmoud as part of OpenDemocracy's ongoing coverage of international women's week.
In April 2007, Du’a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year-old Yezidi girl in Iraqi Kurdistan, was stoned to death. Rights groups mark the year since her death and dencounce all 'honour' killings around the world.
The following is the English text of the speech of Parvin Ardalan, an Iranian women's rights activist, delivered via video during the ceremony where she was presented with the Olaf Palme Award for her work in the field of human rights.
SWAN is a network of Shan women active in Thailand & the Thai-Burma border. Its mission is to work for gender equality & justice for Shan women in the struggle for socio-political change in Burma through community-based actions, research and advocacy.
