Women-Rights

Addameer Press Release: International Women’s Day 2010

by Haitham Sabbah March 10, 2010

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – 8 March 2010 Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women’s Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of Palestinians to self-determination. An estimated 10,000 [...]

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Saudi cleric favours one-eye veil

by Haitham Sabbah October 4, 2008

This is just getting out of hand. Ridiculous… A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive. The question of how much of her face a [...]

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“NOT ONLY” in Arabia!

by Haitham Sabbah August 16, 2008

Woman beat, threatened by ‘modesty squad’ Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed ‘chastity guards’ Aviad Glickman A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the ‘modesty squad’ who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships with men, [...]

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Breaking Sex Taboos in Egypt

by Haitham Sabbah October 1, 2007

In last week’s New York Times there is a great article about the movement gaining momentum in Egypt to end the brutal and senseless practice of female genital mutilation (a.k.a. circumcision). However, it is important to say that circumcision is an inaccurate term for it. Female genital mutilation is the preferred and more accurate term. [...]

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Saudi Arabia: Sex-segregated sidewalks and women’s car driving

by Haitham Sabbah September 16, 2007

One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween: Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks – Saudi Arabia’s religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam’s holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday. The country’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of [...]

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Israel’s modesty buses?

by Haitham Sabbah April 28, 2007

I’m not going to compare religions here, everyone has his own sh*t. Have you heard of “Israel’s modesty buses”? In case you didn’t, this is not a good story for those who care about women’s right. When on the bus, I tried to buck the system, moving my way towards the driver but was pushed [...]

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Report: “68 Palestinian women gave birth on Israeli checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died”

by Haitham Sabbah April 12, 2007

[Cross posted at Daily Kos] [Image by Carlos Latuff] In a not-so-surprising newsreport, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli occupation soldiers forced 68 pregnant women to give birth on road blocks after barring them from crossing as they were being transferred to hospitals and medical centers. Quoting Saed Bannoura’s report [...]

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken, War and Women Rights

by Haitham Sabbah June 30, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices… Summer holidays, women rights, war in Iraq and war in Palestine. These are some of the permanent scene in the Arabic language blogsphere these days. Here is some of what few bloggers said: The daily life [...]

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