Schlagwort: Frauenrechte

„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…

„I hear this a lot. My email inbox is jammed with messages from women who, like me, are of Middle Eastern and Muslim descent. They write to vent about how to ‚get rid of this burden of virginity,‘ or to ask about hymen reconstruction surgery if they’re planning to marry…

„Wo Sexualbeziehungen aber unbefriedigt sind, entstehen Aggressionen und Neurosen. Das hat uns Wilhelm Reich gelehrt – ohne dabei FGM im Kopf zu haben. Einer unserer Partner, Osman Mahmoudi, hat das im Iran untersucht: Er hat nicht nur Frauen zu ihrem sexuellen und psychischen Wohlbefinden gefragt, sondern auch ihre Ehemänner. Er…

„One refused to shake hands with a female journalist. Another compared Israel to Nazi Germany. A third was seen doing hand signs associated with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in the background of a live TV broadcast. The behavior of some Muslim members of Sweden’s Green Party, which is part of a…

Mit einer Äußerung über den sich in Frankreich immer mehr breitmachenden islamischen Schleier hat Laurence Rossignol, die französische Ministerin für Familie, Kinder und Frauenrechte, für einen Sturm der Entrüstung gesorgt: Sie verglich Kopftuch tragende Frauen mit „amerikanischen Negern, die die Sklaverei akzeptierten.“ Kurz darauf forderte Elisabeth Badinter, die zu den…

„Saudi-Arabien ist das einzige Land der Welt, in dem Frauen nicht Auto fahren dürfen – und das soll auch bitte schön so bleiben. Das zumindest fordert Kamal Subhi, ehemaliger Professor an der King Fahd University in Dhahran. In einem Gutachten, das er kürzlich dem gesetzgebenden Shura-Rat vorlegte, warnt er, es…

„In an online video, Saudi family therapist Khaled Al-Saqaby imparted advice on marital strife. Beating one’s wife, said Al-Saqaby, should be intended as a means of discipline, rather than to vent one’s anger, and should be carried out not with a rod or a sharp object, but with a tooth-cleaning…

„The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be…

„In Ägypten war der Hidschab in den 1950er Jahren für viele Frauen undenkbar. Heute ist die Verschleierung zurück. Das zeigt: Die Vorstellungen vom Islam verändern sich.“ (Die ägyptisch-amerikanische Professorin für Frauenstudien Leila Ahmed in einem Gastbeitrag für Zeit Online: „Hidschab: Die Rückkehr des Kopftuchs“)

„The women in the Syrian city of Raqqa suffer greatly under the oppression of the terrorist organization ‚Islamic State.‘ DW had exclusive access to some of those women, who spoke about their daily lives.“ (hier)