Heidi Basch-Harod

Heidi Basch-Harod is the executive director of Women’s Voices Now, a not-for-profit social enterprise whose mission is to empower all women living in Muslim-majority societies by promoting their free expression, thereby giving voice to their struggles for civil, economic, political, and gender rights

Embracing shame: turning honour on its head

The challenge that embracing shame poses to the longstanding perversion of honour, is the struggle for women’s human rights - the realisation of which will result in the entire community’s advancement and healing.

By Heidi Basch-Harod

/ 14 Feb 2014

Shame and honour re-appropriated: women finding their voices

On February 12, 2013, women of the Middle East, in the region and in the Diaspora, officially and publicly re-appropriated shame and honour. Suddenly, they are wearing the experience of surviving sexual terrorism and violence as a badge of honour, using their tragedy to fight for an end to violenc

By Heidi Basch-Harod

/ 8 Mar 2013

Uncertainty for the future of the Moroccan women’s movement

For the past twenty years Moroccan women, from the liberal camp to the Islamist, have campaigned for equal rights for women. Their struggle has borne many triumphs and is gradually beginning to change the lives of women throughout the country. But how will they face the new challenges presented by

By Heidi Basch-Harod

/ 1 Mar 2012