Miscellaneous

l’Europe: Exposition comparant l'avortement à la Shoa au Parlement européen

Veuillez signer la lettre au Président du Parlement européen pour protester contre une exposition contre l’avortement qui a été déployée avec l’autorisation des autorités concernées du Parlement européen, et qui comparait l’avortement à la Shoa.

Women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Citizenship and justice

The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights has summarised the Freedom House survey on women’s rights in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates & Yemen.

Afrique: Conférence interministérielle à Dakar pour l'égalité de genre en Afrique

Le président sénégalais Abdoulaye Wade a souligné vendredi à Dakar l'existence irréfutable "d'un lien entre développement et égalité des genres" à l'ouverture de la première Conférence de l'Union africaine des ministres chargés de la Femme et du genre.

Europe: Women and religion in Europe

Council of Europe address by Ms Jahangir, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

Réseau Ouest-Africain pour l'edification de la paix

Les femmes, ces artisans de la gestion des conflits.

The 10th International Women and Health Meeting (IWHM) marks nearly two and a half decades of global feminist solidarity

The 10th International Women and Health Meeting (IWHM) seeks to highlight politics, policies and issues that adversely affect women's health and simultaneously bring out the linkages and interconnections of these seemingly disparate phenomena.

North Africa: Reasserting a living secularism

A drained nationalism.

Dossier 26: Undoing the ‘package picture’ of cultures

Many feminists of colour have demonstrated the need to take into account differences among women to avoid hegemonic gender-essentialist analyses that represent the problems and interests of privileged women as paradigmatic. As feminist agendas become global, there is growing feminist concern to consider national and cultural differences among women.

Dossier 26: Constructing Identities - Culture, women’s agency, and the Muslim world*

* This paper inevitably draws on my previous writing on the international network Women Living Under Muslim Laws, especially ‘Controlled or autonomous: identity and the experience of the network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws’, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 19, Number 4, 1994, pp 997-1019. Moreover, the analysis presented owes much to the women linked through the network. Any idiosyncrasies, however, are obviously my own.

The Muslim world in context

Dossier 26: The Quest for Gender Justice: Emerging feminist voices in Islam

Who is to say if the key that unlocks the cage might not lie hidden inside the cage?1

If justice and fairness are inherent to Islam - as fuqaha claim and all Muslims believe - should not these virtues be reflected in the ‘Islamic’ laws that regulate the relations between men and women as well as their respective rights? Why have women been treated as second-class citizens in the fiqh books that have come to define the terms of the Shari’a?