في ثورة الشاب اليمنية شاركت العديد من النساء في الثورة فقادت المظاهرات، وشاركن في القرارات، وكن بالفعل جزءا مهما في استدامة حركة التغيير، والان نحن على مشارف التحضير للحوار الوطني في ظل حكومة وحدة وطنية انتقالية، ويخشى العديد من النساء أن الأطراف المتنافسة السياسية ستتوحد حول شيء واحد فقط :اقصاء ق
‘Christmas takes ages and costs a lot of money…’ goes a popular Danish Christmas carol. This year, Christmas started early and revitalized old debates about failed integration, cultural incompatibility and Islamization.
In the first case of its kind in Africa, a suit has been filed against Kenyan police for systemic discrimination in permitting the rape of young girls and in failing to enforce existing laws. If successful the case could establish legal protection from rape for all girls in Kenya
“Sometimes we need to name the abnormal as abnormal, and take action to defend what is normal!” - Shereen Essof. Jessica Horn reports at the close of the Nobel Women's Initiative conference, 'Women Forging a New Security: ending sexual violence in conflict'
The to-ing and fro-ing about ‘women’s peaceful natures’ is no more than an excitable bubble of argument out of touch with facts on the ground. Antiwar feminism is a pretty holistic feminism that is forged in the crucible of war.
La violence faite aux femmes est une épidémie que nous ne pouvons pas accepter. Le mariage précoce et forcé reste le principal défi au Cameroun et la route sera longue, mais avec la force de l’activisme des femmes nous pouvons y arriver, dit Aîssa Ngatansou Doumara.
Violence against women is a public plague no one can live with and early and forced marriage remains the main challenge in Cameroon. The road ahead is a long one but with the force of women’s activism we can get there, says Aîssa Ngatansou Doumara.
Enrique Pena Nieto will assume the Presidency of Mexico on the 1 December 2012, a day which will mark the return of his party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) after 12 years absence. Their first job: Mexico’s biggest labour reform in over 40 years.
In their attempt to assassinate girl-activist, Malala Yousufzai, has the Taliban inadvertently rescued the narrative of violence against women?
Roseline Akhalu successfully appeals against decision to deport her to Nigeria where she would die within four weeks. OurKingdom, which has reported on this case since May 2012, publishes today’s statement from her advocates, Public Interest Lawyers.
As modern workers, we have much to learn from the rich tradition of labour republicanism in America. The second piece in our Democratic Wealth series, hosted with Politics in Spires.
