women

By Sarah Kastner | – After Israeli forces shot her 15-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet last December, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian girl from Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, stood up to the occupying Israeli forces and was arrested and charged for slapping a soldier. The story of the activist went […]

Middle East

Middle East Women Won Changes, Rights in ’18 Despite Backlash

AFP

Dubai, United Arab Emirates | AFP | – Women rights defenders have stood up for change across the Middle East and North Africa in 2018 despite a plethora of abuse from governments and armed groups, Amnesty International said Monday. Paying tribute to women activists in a report released on Human Rights Day, Amnesty said they […]

Israel

Israel: Thousands of Women Protest State Inaction over Femicide

TeleSur

Concerts and performance art filled the region as women protested the state’s inaction in the face of injustice. Some 20,000 women are banding together to denounce the state’s deadly negligence which is victimizing women across Israel in a nationwide march Tuesday. Black coffins, puddles of red paint, roadblocks, and “die-ins” were erected throughout the Tel […]

Feminism

Syrian Kurdish Women March to End Gender-Based Violence

AFP

Qamishli (Syria) (AFP) – Hundreds of female protesters took to the streets of the Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Sunday to call for an end to violence against women. Some banging large drums and others ululating, they marched through the streets, an AFP correspondent said. “Underage marriage is a crime,” said one sign held […]

women

Thousands of Women Descend on Washington Protesting Kavanaugh: “Women must be Heard!”

AFP

by Issam AHMED | – Washington (AFP) – Jessica Cathcart, a 24-year-old from California, says university professor Christine Blasey Ford inspired her to speak up about her own sexual assault, which took place when she was in high school. Angela Trzepkowski, 55, from Delaware, says she would be devastated if Brett Kavanaugh, accused by Blasey […]

Iraq

Miss Iraq: Death Threats target Women Media Activists after Miss Baghad was Assassinated

Middle East Monitor

Iraqi fashion model and media activist, Shaimaa Qasem, holder of the title of Miss Iraq in 2015, yesterday said that she had received “death threats.” Qasem, who held the title of Miss Iraq in 2015, posted a short live video on Facebook’s Instagram, revealing that she had received a message read “your turn is coming.” […]

Featured

Lindsey Graham disregards Violence toward Women, & his State is a Women’s Murder Capital

Juan Cole

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it abundantly clear in the hearing on Thursday that he cares more about Republican Party control of the Supreme Court than about rape victims. He implied that the charges of sexual assault that have surfaced against Brett Kavanaugh are a Democratic Party plot to deny Trump a Supreme Court justice. […]

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Top 4 Pieces of Sexual Harassment that Brought us to the Kavanaugh Debacle

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I would argue that it is no accident that yet another accusation of sexual harassment against Brett Kavanaugh has surfaced, by his Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez. Persons who do these things do them for reasons of power, not sex, and they typically don’t just do them once. Kavanaugh is denying […]

Feminism

Keeping Nasty Women out of Textbooks

Gail Ukockis

Satire. (Informed Comment) – In the midst of the current political turmoil, I was both relieved and delighted to read that a Texas education committee had voted to keep Nasty Women such as Hillary Clinton out of the mandatory social studies curriculum. The idea of impressionable children hearing about her pantsuits made me shudder with […]