Archive for women rights
a silent gendercide
Posted in Kids with tags Afghanistan, arbitrary detention, feminicide, fundamentalism, gender apartheid, gender equality, gendercide, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, taliban, torture, UN Women, violence, women rights on January 1, 2026 by xi'an
always more obscurantism from the theocracy
Posted in Statistics with tags 2019 Education Buildings Scotland Awards, Afghanistan, dictature, education, obscurantism, taliban, theocracy, women rights on January 11, 2023 by xi'an
Iran [cover]
Posted in Books, Travel with tags compulsory veiling laws, dictature, Iran, Jin Jian Azadi, Kurdistan, Le Monde, M Magazine, Mahsa Amini, repression, theocracy, Woman Life Liberty, women rights, Zan Zendegi Azadi on December 30, 2022 by xi'an
one year under students’ tyranny
Posted in pictures with tags Afghanistan, bread work and freedom, fundamentalism, Kabul, pro-democracy protesters, taliban, theocracy, women rights on August 15, 2022 by xi'an
freedom for women jailed in Iran
Posted in Travel, University life with tags Australia, Fariba Adelkhah, France, Human Rights, hunger strike, Iran, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Paris, political prisoner, Reuters, Sciences Po, United Kingdom, University of Melbourne, women rights on December 30, 2019 by xi'an
Three women are currently on hunger strike in Iranian jails to protest against their arbitrary detention under espionage charges and the dire conditions of these detentions. Two of them, Fariba Adelkhah and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, are dual nationals with Iranian nationality, whose second nationality is not recognised by Iranian authorities and makes their release from jail the more unlikely. On the French side, Fariba Adelkhah, anthropologist, along with Roland Marchal, sociologist, is a researcher at Sciences Po Paris. They were arrested in June 2019. On the British side, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (jailed in April 2016) is working with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Canadian news agency Thomson Reuters‘ charitable arm and Kylie Moore-Gilbert (jailed since October 2018) is a Middle East Lecturer at the University of Melbourne‘s Asia Institute. Petitions have been launched to support them, but I wonder at the possibility to move the Iranian cynical stance other than through the respective governments of these women. (Obviously, there are many many other women and men jailed in Iran for political or other discriminatory reasons who should equally be freed.)
