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The increasing economic poverty in villages outside Ramallah
in the West Bank is leading to unexpected
changes in gender roles and is challenging the tradition of early marriage. Jane Gabriel has been listening to those involved in making changes on the ground. Listen now.
Laureate Mairead Maguire spoke to Jane Gabriel about a new politic she sees arising: one in which ‘deep democracy’ is built by people, one to one, and demanding that the money be taken out of militarism. Listen now...
Every woman at the NWI gathering in Antigua had a way of redefining democracy - from writing the new Ecuadorian constitution to include the rights of nature, to fighting for a place at the negotiating table of the peace talks in Sudan. Jane Gabriel listened to three days of stories,debate and plans for the future. Listen now...
Jody Williams speaks frankly to Jane Gabriel about the impact that being a Nobel Peace Laureate has on her life - both personally and politically. Listen now...
Moroccan women won profound changes in their status when the Family law was reformed. Listen now
Syrian Women's Rights: "The fight does not stop here, this is not the end of the story". Listen now
Also read: Bassam AlKadi - one man's fight to end 'honour killings'.
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: finding a place of peace. Women in Birmingham who have escaped violence at home talk to Siobhan O'Connell. Listen now
Iraqi women refugees: surviving in Syria. As the months turn into years, more and more women refugees in Damascus are becoming vulnerable to the human trafficking networks. Listen now
Femicide and Patriarchy in Lebanon: The Lebanese judiciary has tried sixty six cases of 'honour killing' since 1999 and rejected all of them. Dr Azza Baydoun told Jane Gabriel the story behind the trials. Listen now.
The British government has promised to roll out a network of Independent Domestic Violence Advisors to help women to escape from violent relationships. Joanne Miller works at the coalface with women who can stand the violence no more. She spoke to Siobhan O'Connell about her advocacy work. Listen now
The Lebanese government is about to decide whether to introduce the first ever piece of legislation to protect women from violence in their extended families. Jane Gabriel met the women's organisations and activists who have been campaigning for this law for more than fifteen years. Listen now
Professor Balghis Badri speaks to Jane Gabriel about the women being empowered in the midst of conflict. Listen now
Legal reform in Egypt
establishing Family Courts with mandatory mediation ( see Mulki Al-Sharmani: Egypt's
family courts: route to empowerment? )
and the introduction of no fault divorce proceedings known as ‘khola'
is prompting discussion about relations
between men and women in marriage, including women's sexual rights. As the
government and women's rights organisations talk about further legal reforms,
the assumptions of the law makers are increasingly being called into question.
Mulki al Sharmani
and Sawsan Sherif are based at the
Social Research Centre of the American
University in Cairo and have been monitoring the
work of two family courts, looking at how the reforms are working for women
on the ground. They spoke to Jane Gabriel in Cairo about some surprising findings of their
research.
Listen now.
13:06 minutes (11.99 MB)In part two, Blumenthal dissects the Iraq project - an "ideological dreamland" characterised by incompetence. "green zone of the mind" then on to torture and detention policy, the emergence of John McCain, unique challenge for the next president, and the end of an era
Jane Gabriel meets the actors and writers of the Cairo-based Women and Memory forum. Listen now
Meeting women's rights activists in Salvador, Brazil, Jane Gabriel finds there can be no talk of empowerment without first tackling endemic violence. Listen now
A special podcast from Sheffield's City of Sanctuary, marking Refugee Week. Listen now
Afaf El Sayyad tells Jane Gabriel about living within a Muslim movement in Egypt, what drove her to leave, and how it felt to take off her veil. Listen now.
UN Special Rapporteur Dr Yakin Ertürk calls for action now to end violence against women. Listen now
Hussaina Abdullah spoke to Jane Gabriel about rebuilding civil society in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of civil war. Listen now
The basic rights of women in the developing world are being ignored in the battle against poverty
What has happened to the argument for women's human rights in international policy? Rosalind Eyben of IDS, Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay of the Royal Tropical Insititute in the Netherlands and Helen O'Connell of One World Action spoke to Jane Gabriel. Listen now
Hibaaq Osman on
dignity and violence in the middle east. Plus: blogging 16 days
Afaf Jabiri talks about taking on the Jordanian government over women's rights. Plus: blogging 16 days
The UN's John Holmes on confronting sexual violence worldwide
Plus: blogging 16 days
Listen now to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana
plus: tackling domestic violence in Africa
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