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WMC’s Women Under Siege is calling on women and men from Syria and those working with Syrian refugees to provide us with reports of Sexualized violence as the crisis unfolds. We are relying on you to help us discover whether rape and sexual assault are widespread - such evidence can be used to aid the international community in grasping the urgency of what is happening in Syria, and can provide the base for potential future prosecutions. Our goal is to make these atrocities visible, and to gather evidence so that one day justice may be served.
We collaborate with epidemiologists at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, as well as multiple Syrian activists and journalists.
Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls
Imagine a country where girls must sneak out to go to school, with deadly consequences if they get caught learning. This was Afghanistan under the Taliban, and traces of that danger remain today. 22-year-old Shabana Basij-Rasikh runs a school for girls in Afghanistan. She celebrates the power of a family’s decision to believe in their daughters — and tells the story of one brave father who stood up to local threats. (Filmed at TEDxWomen)
In Libya, Zahra’ Langhi was part of the “days of rage” movement that helped topple the dictator Qaddafi. But — then what? In their first elections, Libyans tried an innovative slate of candidates, the “zipper ballot,” that ensured equal representation from men and women of both sides. Yet the same gridlocked politics of dominance and exclusion won out. What Libya needs now, Langhi suggests, is collaboration, not competition; compassion, not rage.
Zahra’ Langhi is a gender specialist, civil society strategist, political activist advocating for peace, human rights and women’s leadership, scholar, and researcher in the field of Middle Eastern history, metaphysics, mysticism, and female spirituality in comparative religions.
The uprising of women in the Arab world
The Uprising of Women in the Arab World’s campaign was created in October 2011 by a group of activists from various Arab countries. It was an urgent reaction to the social and political developments in the region because we didn’t want the Arab Spring to be aborted. From Tunis to Egypt to Libya to Syria to Yemen to Bahrain…, the Arab revolts are led in the name of dignity, justice and freedom, but we cannot reach for those values if women are being ignored or absented from the main scenery.
(Uprising of Women Logo شعار انتفاضة المرأة - The official logo of the Uprising of Women in the Arab World Design by: Hassan Al Teibi dedicated from him to the Uprising)
Watch the powerful and hard-hitting documentary that has given the issue of acid violence global attention. Channel 4 will be showing the film on 16th January 2013 at 10pm.
Directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Saving Face profiles two survivors of acid violence in Pakistan. The film follows them as they try to come to terms with their attacks, rebuild their lives and bring the perpetrators to justice. Saving Face highlights the work of Dr Muhammad Ali Jawad, pioneering British Pakistani plastic surgeon who worked for Islamic Help to treat the two survivors who are the subject of the film.
TEDxSanaa was the first TEDx event in Yemen. It aims at exposing the talent, creativity, and ingenuity of Yemenis. The event brought the brightest, the most creative, and most influential Yemenis together to inspire and remind the world of the potential that Yemen has to be a good world citizen. It comes in a very critical time when Yemen, which is one of the Arab Spring countries, entered a transitional phase towards becoming a democratic, modern state. The Slogan of TEDxSanaa 2012 is “Inspiring Hope” and took place on Dec, 31st 2012.
Original Content by TEDxSanaa with some editing by ihya
All this may seem touching – yet the projects and the people behind them command respect. Instead of running away, more and more young Lebanese like Najwa, Hind and Ziad are fighting for futures in their own country. And showing greater enthusiasm and responsibility than the state has seen for decades. Who can say what they might yet achieve?
Inspiring, Lebanon’s Young Fight for the Country’s Future with Thought & Vision
Business Innovation in Lebanon The Other Spring by Mona Sarkis
Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
Afghanistan’s Transition in the Making - Perceptions and Policy Strategies of Women Parliamentarians
Turkey’s middle-class women mix fashion with Islamic piety
Models in headscarves feature in magazine tapping into wealth and self-confidence of new bourgeoisie
Pakistan Future Leaders Conference 2012
Over the weekend Oxford University’s Pakistan Society hosted the yearly Pakistan Future Leaders Conference. It is evident that new thinking is required to tackle the challenges facing Pakistan, which makes it all the more disappointing when rehashed thinking is presented to tackle the problems facing Pakistan. It is quite evident that Pakistan needs to invest in developing its vast youth resource, just as it is evident that Pakistan’s military holds too much power, and its policies have damaged the country. These quite vague and generalised statements don’t illuminate the problem or how to treat the problem. Simply saying we need civilian government does not articulate how this will solve Pakistan’s problems.
Much hope is being placed in Imran Khan’s party, PTI, and a number of prominent politicians have come over to his party from all major parties in Pakistan. This is quite a significant development, and Imran Khan could be a real political player in Pakistan’s next elections. The problem however is that the people of Pakistan will soon again be disappointed because Imran Khan’s party manifests the same thinking, which culminated in the global financial crisis. This is not original thinking.
I like to believe that we will be free, and we will have high-quality research centres in Palestine and the Arab world where students will want to study for PhDs, and continue onto postdocs. The logical progress of research is simply amazing. I honestly have no idea what I will be doing 10 years from now, but I want a world class cancer research centre in Palestine one day and will certainly continue teaching along with my research.
Rula Abdul-Salam Abdul-Ghani - Faculty of Medicine, AL-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine
Rula is one of 9 exceptional Arab women scientists who won funding for their research from the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women In Science Pan-Arab Regional Fellowships Program in association with the Arab Science & Technology Foundation (ASTF).
The skateboarders bringing peace to Tunisia
by Jake Hanrahan
How do you bring people together in the immediate aftermath of a revolution? Meet the Bedouins, the arty skate gang which commandeered an abandoned mansion in Tunisia to promote peace in the wake of the upheaval.
(Photo Credit: Nathan Gray)
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