AWID's Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms Program
Launches Spanish And French Newsletters
We are
pleased to announce the launch of our first French and Spanish editions
of our newsletter "Facing Fundamentalisms". To view the recent
editions or subscribe please visit Enfrentando
Fundamentalismos, Affronter Les
Fondamentalismes. Read
more here.
Egypt: Keeping Women Out - Sexual Violence Against Women
In The Public Sphere Report
Sexual
harassment and assault is a long-standing and systemic problem in Egypt presenting major obstacles to women's participation
in public life. Successive Egyptian governments have failed to
address violence against women, with serious implications for
women's participation in the political transition of their country. Read more here.
Nigeria: Attacks And Abductions Have Become A Way Of Life
The
abduction of hundreds of school girls from their school hostel in Chibok,
Borno in north-eastern Nigeria is not an isolated incident, but rather has become a
way of life for communities in three north-eastern states in Nigeria. Read
more here.
Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act's Heavy Toll
Lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people
in Uganda have
reported a surge in human rights violations since the passage of
the Anti-Homosexuality
Act on December 20, 2013. Read more here.
USA: Obama's Evangelical Gravy Train
Despite
the president's promise to cut funding to discredited HIV and pregnancy
prevention programs, taxpayer dollars are still bankrolling anti-gay,
anti-choice conservative religious groups. Read more here.
Global: Karima Bennoune - When People Of Muslim
Heritage Challenge Fundamentalism
In
this TED Talk, Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real
people fighting against fundamentalism in their own communities -
refusing to allow the faith they love to become a tool for crime, attacks
and murder. These personal stories humanize one of the most overlooked
human-rights struggles in the world. Read more here.
Global: The Persecution Of Witches, 21st-Century Style
Most
people believe that the persecution of "witches" reached its
height in the early 1690s with the trials in Salem, Mass., but it is a
grim paradox of 21st-century life that violence against people accused of
sorcery is very much still with us. Far from fading away, thanks to
digital interconnectedness and economic development, witch hunting has
become a growing, global problem. Read more here.
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