Schlagwort: Frauenrechte

„53 percent of all Tunisian women have suffered some form of street violence, the Minister of Women and Family Affairs told local radio ahead of a proposed bill to punish all acts of violence against women with a jail sentence. Speaking on Mosaique Fm today, Minister Samira Marai said that, in…

„The rights of women and children in Iran are increasingly under threat, according to two reports from human rights monitoring groups published this week.  Amnesty International accused Tehran of treating the activities of women’s groups and activists as criminal acts. ‚It is utterly shameful that the Iranian authorities are treating…

„A recent survey among Sunni religous scholars in the Iranian province of Kermansheh shows that a majority of them (67{a7b8b9982d1bbdc5e1caab033d30320c7a19bdb9cd0371a3252625f5cda85985}) believe that ‚female circumcision‘ is religiously obligatory or at least recommended for girls and women. In this province in the West of Iran, female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced by…

„Viele ausländische Beobachter des syrischen Krieges würden solche Taten eher der Terrormiliz „Islamischer Staat“ (IS) zurechnen. Deren Kämpfer vergewaltigen systematisch Frauen, prahlen mit ihren Sex-Sklavinnen, setzen Preise für den Verkauf fest und schicken Videos ihrer Gräueltaten in die Welt. Doch die Milizen sind nicht die Einzigen, die sich an Frauen…

Vor zwei Jahren begann die Terrormiliz IS im Nordirak eine Offensive gegen die kurdische Minderheit der Jesiden. Tausende Frauen wurden dabei als Sexsklavinnen verschleppt. Eine Frau, die sich aus der Gefangenschaft befreien konnte, berichtet nun in Deutschland von ihrem Schicksal. (…) Weiterleben und weiterkämpfen, das ist Nadias Motto. Sie hat ihre Geschichte…

„Selbstbewusste, organisierte, in den Medien präsente Hidschab-Trägerinnen stellen religiöse Kleidervorschriften als progressiv und feministisch dar. Ein Blick in die islamische Welt und konservative muslimische Communities Europas zeigt jedoch das Gegenteil: Wo religiöse Kräfte das Sagen haben, ob mittels staatlicher Macht oder gesellschaftlichem Druck, ist für Frauen ein Kleidungsstück verpflichtend, das…

„Around 70 per cent of the Syrian city of Manbij has been wrested back from Isis control after a sustained offensive by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the last few days. Isis soldiers had been forced to retreat into the city’s old quarter, thanks to the ground efforts…

„Thousands of Yazidis are being held captive by Islamic State in Syria where many are used for sexual slavery or forced to fight for the group, the United Nations said on Wednesday, on the second anniversary of what investigators termed a genocide. A U.N.-appointed commission of independent war crimes investigators…

„A group of women has reportedly been arrested for riding bicycles in Iran and made to sign pledges not to repeat the ‚violation‘. They were planning to participate in a cycling event in the north-western city of Marivan when police told them a new government directive had barred women riding…

„Today we organized a demonstration in Halabja Women Center against the Yazidi Genocide. Women from all the different groups, nationalities and religions were gathering together to commemorate what happens to the Yazidi Community. In August 2014 the Islamic State (IS) overran Sinjar mountains where most Yazidis in Northern Iraq were…

„Joudi al-Omeri drove in circles. And when cars came in her direction, she swerved. These were electric bumper cars, but in Saudi Arabia, the ride doesn’t always live up to its name. ‚I come here to drive,‘ said Ms. al-Omeri, a 27-year-old homemaker still giddy from the roughly five-minute, mostly…

„President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has attracted opprobrium once more after controversially claiming that women who prefer not to have children or manage their households are ‚deficient,‘ regardless of their successes in the area of business. (…) In his disputed speech at KADEM’s opening ceremony in Istanbul on June 5, Erdoğan…

„A bill that would reduce the working hours of female employees, which was passed in the last days of Iran’s outgoing Parliament on May 10, 2016, is as an attempt by the state to ‚bring the »out-of-control half of society« back under its control,‘ a women’s studies expert told the…

Von Khaled Abu Toameh Sex ist in der konservativen palästinensischen Gesellschaft ein Tabuthema. Für viele war es daher eine böse Überraschung, als kürzlich an die Öffentlichkeit gelangte, dass die sexuelle Belästigung in dem von der Hamas kontrollierten Gazastreifen um sich greift. Die in Beirut ansässige, der Hisbollah nahestehende Zeitung Al-Akhbar…

„What do Western women who join Islamic State want? One prominent theory is what these women ‚really‘ want is to get laid. Another is that they don’t know what they ‚really‘ want, because what they want has been decided for them by male jihadi ‚groomers.‘ Both theories are meant to…