violence against women

تاریخ سرکوب شدگان، میراث مشترک بشریت*/ شادی صدر

Publication Date: 
November 5, 2011
Source: 
Justice for Iran
Presentation during Keynote Address at Amnesty International's Western Regional Conference, 5 November 2011. [Justice for Iran]


بدون شک، ما در برهه ای تاریخی به سر می بریم؛ انقلابهای مردمی در شمال آفریقا و خاورمیانه همه ما را سرشار از امید کرده است. دیکتاتورهایی که سالیان سال، حقوق مردم را به شکلی گسترده و شدید نقض کرده اند، یکی یکی سرنگون می شوند و ما در شادی مردمی شریک می شویم که به خیابانها آمده اند تا حق خود را طلب کنند. تصاویری بسیار تاثیرگذار و قدرتمند است از خوشحالی و امید. اما برای من، و فکر می کنم برای خیلی از ما، فعالان حقوق بشر در سراسر جهان، در کنار این خوشحالی و امید، نگرانی های عمیقی وجود دارد.

Algeria: Urgent Action Needed to Stop Violent 'Punishments' Against Women


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.

Sri Lanka: Police investigate attack on teenage girls

Publication Date: 
June 28, 2011
Source: 
BBC
In certain areas of Sri Lanka, Arabic has recently been added to some street signs, although most people speak Tamil.


Sri Lankan police are investigating an alleged assault on two girls accused of watching pornography in the east of the country last week. A group of men allegedly beat up the 17-year-olds after they came out of an internet cafe in the mostly Muslim town of Kattankudi, near Batticaloa.The father of one of the girls says they were accused of watching pornography - a charge the girls deny.