The VNC Campaign endorses this action being spearheaded by SIAWI in Algeria on behalf of women under threat of violent punitive actions by private individuals and groups associated with fundamentalist forces in the country.  According to SIAWI and progressive forces in Algeria, these women are being targetted for  ’stealing men’s or youth’s jobs’.  To earn a living, they had to live awy from their families hence without their walis (male guardians).  This spate of incidents is taking place in the broader context of State inaction against systemic violence being waged by these fundamentalist forces for decades now.  Please click on this

Algeria: Two more ’punitive’ actions against women have taken place in less than one month in the southern city of M’sila, Algeria (night of June 11 and July 2-3, 2011). Their houses were burnt down by hundreds of youth, and they barely escaped being lynched. The police did not intervene.