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<Before the taiban realises what will hit them a Zan,
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SEPTEMBER 2022<Protester Munisa Mubariz
pledged to continue fighting for women's rights. <If the
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<Before the taiban realises what will hit them a Zan,
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<I am both father and mother to my daughters. I am the
man and woman of my household. I need to go out to care
for my family. Where do I get a mahram from?>
BY GULALAI, AN AFGHAN WOMAN
Translation mahram:
The function of a 'traditional i.e Islamic' mahram (a
male) is to protect and accompany his wife.
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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
bThe Guardian
25 June 2022
By Lois Beckett and Abené Clayton
<<‘An unspoken epidemic’: Homicide rate increase for
Black women rivals that of Black men.
In 2020, a year of rising homicides amid a devastating
pandemic in the US, the increase in the death rate for
Black women rivaled that of Black men. As homicides
increased nearly 30% nationwide that year, the rate for
Black women and girls rose 33%, a sharper increase than
for every demographic except Black men, and more than
double that of white women, according to a Guardian
analysis of homicide data from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Killings of Black women and
girls increased across age groups, from school-age
children to senior citizens. Gun violence drove the
increase, with three-quarters of homicide victims who
were Black women and girls dying from gunshot wounds.
The increase only worsened an <unspoken epidemic> that
has been unfolding over years, advocates say. From the
mainstream feminist movement to the news media to law
enforcement to community violence prevention
organizations, many institutions have stayed silent
about the crisis of violence against Black women, who
are expected to care for others, but often do not
receive the same level of care, they said.
The homicide rate among Black men in the US has long
captured national headlines, but despite decades of
Black feminist scholarship and organizing on the topic,
violence against Black women and girls continues to
receive little attention, researchers say. <The
headlines are: 'Black men and boys face astronomical
homicide rates' or 'Black men and boys face an increase
in homicide that’s deeply troubling.' You might get a
paragraph that says: 'And so are Black women and
girls',> said Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Black feminist legal
scholar whose work has highlighted police violence
against Black women. <Often the data doesn’t even get
reported. The heightened vulnerability of Black women to
violence should be seen and addressed as a crisis
alongside the already recognized epidemic of Black male
homicide,> Crenshaw said. Community violence prevention
typically focuses on Black men and boys, who face the
highest risk of being killed, and domestic violence
advocacy is most often shaped by the experiences of
white women, researchers say. This creates a vacuum of
solutions tailored to the unique ways that Black women
and girls are vulnerable to violence. A national march
against Black femicide is being planned for late August
in Washington DC, where the homicide rate for Black
women was among the highest in the nation in 2020. Rosa
Page, an Arkansas-based nurse and founder of Black
Femicide US, is organizing the march. <When I saw the
rate increasing,> Page said, <I just had to do
something.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/homicide-violence-against-black-women-us
The Guardian
23 June 2022
By Pjotr Sauer
<<Ukraine to begin first trial of Russian soldier
charged with rape.
Ukraine is to hold a preliminary hearing in its first
trial of a Russian soldier charged with raping a
Ukrainian woman during Moscow's invasion, the beginning
of what could be dozens of such cases.
The suspect, Mikhail Romanov, 32, who will be tried in
absentia on Thursday, is accused of breaking into a
house in March in a village in the Brovarsky region
outside Kyiv, murdering a man and then repeatedly raping
his wife while threatening her and her child with
violence and weapons. It was not immediately clear who
will represent Romanov at the trial, which will be held
behind closed doors. The Guardian was unable to reach
Romanov for comment and his apparent partner declined to
answer questions. Ukraine says it is investigating
thousands of potential war crimes committed during the
Russian invasion, which will mark its fourth month on
Friday. Russian crimes against Ukrainian civilians
documented by reporters and prosecutors working Ukraine
have included sexual assault, murder and looting. A
prosecutor working on sexual violence cases told Reuters
earlier that up to 50 crimes involving sexual assault
and rape were being investigated. After a visit to the
Ukrainian capital earlier this month, Pramila Patten, a
senior UN official, said the rape cases under
investigation <only represent the tip of the iceberg>,
describing sexual violence as <the most hidden crime>
committed against Ukrainians in the war and urging
survivors to come forward.
Not much information is known about Romanov, who has a
large bear tattoo on his chest in pictures on social
media. During Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he served in
239th regiment of the 90th Guards Tank and was involved
in the failed offensive on Kyiv. >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/ukraine-to-begin-first-trial-of-russian-soldier-charged-with-rape-mikhail-romanov
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here for a report previously published by Cryfreedom.net
The Guardian
11 June 2022
By Vincent Ni and agencies
<<Chinese police arrest nine after women attacked at
restaurant.
Nine men have been arrested over a vicious attack on a
group of women at a restaurant in northern China, in a
case that prompted outrage over predatory sexual
behaviour and violence against women. CCTV footage of
the incident widely circulated online shows a man
placing his hand on a woman's back as she shares a meal
with two companions at a barbecue restaurant in the city
of Tangshan in Hebei province in the early hours of
Friday. After the woman pushes him away, the man strikes
her before others drag her outside and deal a barrage of
blows as she lies on the ground. Another woman is also
knocked to the floor. The video quickly went viral on
China’s internet and renewed a debate about sexual
harassment and gender-based violence in a country where
the conversation around women’s rights has grown in
recent years despite pressure from a patriarchal
society, internet censorship and patchy legal support.
Last year, a man threw hot liquid at Xiao Meili, a
well-known Chinese feminist, in a restaurant after she
asked him to stop smoking. Despite being on the
receiving end of the violence, Xiao said she was then
repeatedly trolled on China’s internet, where many
blamed her for causing trouble. Internet censors blocked
keywords linked to the MeToo movement after a wave of
women accused university professors of sexual harassment
in 2018. Campaigners also say domestic abuse remains
pervasive and under-reported. Tangshan police said on
Saturday that all nine of the men involved in the latest
violent incident had been arrested. Responding to the
national outrage, the Communist party chief in the city,
Wu Weidong, was quoted by local media as saying the men
would be punished according to the law and that the
authorities should launch a campaign to eradicate
<gangsters and evil forces>. Two women treated at
hospital following the incident were <in stable
conditions and not in mortal danger>, while two others
sustained minor injuries, authorities said on Friday.
The attack has generated more than half a billion views
and tens of thousands of comments on the social media
site Weibo, where many users, particularly women, urged
the authorities to crack down on gender-based violence.
<All of this could happen to me, could happen to any of
us,> said one commenter in a post liked more than
100,000 times.
<How is this sort of thing still happening in 2022?>
wrote another. <Please give them criminal sentences, and
don’t let any of them get away.> China Women’s News,
published by the All-China Women’s Federation, said in a
commentary on Saturday that <there can only, and must
only, be zero tolerance for such vicious cases of
serious violations of womens rights and interests>. >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/11/china-group-of-women-attacked-at-restaurant
The Guardian
9 June 2022
Interview
<<Anyika Onuora: 'I couldn’t tell anyone – a lot of
abuse in sport is swept under the rug'.
By Donald McRae
British Olympic medal-winning athlete on how a system
skewed against black sportswomen left her feeling alone
in the face of sexual assault and racism.
<If I said I wasn't nervous I’d be lying,> Anyika Onuora
suggests with a little smile in the front room of her
mother’s house in Liverpool. We have known each other
since I first interviewed Onuora in April 2017 and in
the intervening years she has confidentially told me
everything she is now about to share with the world.
Onuora is an amusing and intelligent woman, full to the
brim with life and laughter, but her story as a black
female athlete is framed by haunting racism and sexual
assault. Her important and powerful new book, My Hidden
Race, was published on Thursday. This is Onuora's first
interview about subjects we have discussed privately for
so long and, suddenly, everything seems very real. She
is 37 and retired as a 400m sprinter in 2019, having won
medals at the Olympic Games, the world championships,
Commonwealth Games and European championships. Onuora is
proud of her achievements and acknowledges the help she
received. But she is intent on proving <you can’t brush
things under a carpet for ever>. She is ready to talk
about her experiences and the people she feels failed to
support her and her black female teammates. <I wanted to
tell my story in my own words,> she says, <but I had to
relive so much trauma. My mother is reading the book and
it's hard. I think part of her feels she failed as a
parent. That's sad and definitely not true. I’ve always
been one of those resilient people who gets on and moves
from the next race to the next competition. But below
the surface I went through a lot – and I didn't talk
about that with her or anyone for a long time. For my
mum to find out now about the sexual assault and
attempted rape …> Onuora shakes her head. The
photographs on the wall capture a large Nigerian family
at home in Liverpool. It is easy to feel the warmth and
love before we return to harrowing days. Onuora’s
parents emigrated from Nigeria and her early years were
blissfully happy. But when the family moved to Dingle,
two miles from where we sit now, racism almost broke
them. <These kids would spit at us, say the N-word and
shout abuse,> Onuora says. <Then it started. Bricks came
through the window. My parents were scared in case the
next thing was bullets because we were terrorised.>
....
All these humiliations were stored inside as she felt
unable to talk to anyone within her governing body.
Onuora says: <The sport broke me. Will action now be
taken to help future athletes so they don’t suffer in
silence? I don't think it's in their best interests to
ignore it, especially with the sexual assaults I
incurred. I can speak about it now, but can you imagine
all the other athletes, male and female, that might have
been through the same thing?>
A spokesperson for UKA said: <We are hugely saddened to
hear of the distressing experiences detailed by Anyika.
It is essential athletes are supported to train and
compete in environments free from prejudice and abuse.
There have been significant changes to the approach,
structure and culture within UKA following governance
and safeguarding reviews in 2020. It is essential that
anyone who has experienced or knows of any form of
discrimination, harassment, abuse or bullying comes
forward to tell us and to receive support and advice. No
act is too small and it is vital all individuals can
report issues regardless of when they may have
happened.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/09/anyika-onuora-i-couldnt-tell-anyone-abuse-in-sport-is-swept-under-the-rug-athletics
The Guardian
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
9 June 2022
By Tessa Fox
<<Rape used 'systematically' during Lebanon’s civil war,
report finds.
The full scale of the rape, torture and killing of women
and girls during Lebanon's civil war has been revealed
after survivors were interviewed about their experiences
for the first time in over 30 years. Testimonies
gathered by the human rights organisation Legal Action
Worldwide (LAW), documented in a new report, provide
evidence of systematic violence against Lebanese and
Palestinian women and girls by government forces and
militias during the 15-year war, which began in 1975.
The conflict saw more than 100,000 people killed and 1
million displaced. The report details horrific
experiences of violence, including gang-rape,
electrocution and forced nudity used to persecute women
and girls – some as young as nine – from opposing
communities. Many have never spoken about their
experiences before because, the women say, <they were
never asked>, it added. The passing of a law by the
Lebanese parliament in 2018 – ratified two years later –
to set up a national commission to investigate the
whereabouts of those who disappeared in the war, enabled
LAW to begin its investigation. It interviewed women
from eight regions and conducted focus groups and
surveys to record eyewitness accounts. Amira Radwan, now
54, witnessed the rape of girls in Kfar Matta, where she
lived in 1982. The village was the scene of a notorious
massacre of Druze civilians by the Lebanese Forces, a
Christian Phalangist militia. <They used to tie up the
father and brother and make them watch the girls being
raped,> Radwan said, adding she also knew of women being
raped using glass bottles. As rape was considered to
bring shame on the family, women and girls were often
ostracised if they spoke of their experiences. <We
suffered a lot from not being able to talk about these
crimes that happened,> Radwan said. An amnesty law
passed in Lebanon in 1991 granted immunity for crimes
committed against civilians during the war, which has
allowed a culture of impunity and lack of accountability
to develop, the report noted. <These women and girls
(and family members who witnessed these crimes) are
double victims – first the sexual violence inflicted
upon them and then the total and utter failure to hold
individuals and state agents accountable for these grave
violations or even acknowledge what has happened,>
states the report. <We were quite shocked by our
findings; we thought we would find sexual violence had
taken place on an opportunistic level, but not
systematically,> LAW’s executive director, Antonia
Mulvey, told the Guardian. >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/09/rape-used-systematically-by-forces-fighting-lebanon-civil-war-report-finds
The Guardian
3 June 2022
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By Sarah Johnson
<<Nepali womans account of rape prompts wave of protest
over laws.
A young woman’s account on TikTok of being drugged,
raped and then blackmailed by a beauty pageant organiser
when she was 16 years old has provoked outrage in Nepal
and prompted calls to reform the country’s <grossly
inadequate> rape laws. In one of a series of videos,
which together have been viewed millions of times, the
former model and child actor broke down in tears as she
talked about Nepal's statute of limitations that
dictates survivors must report cases of rape within one
year of the offence being committed.
Days after the videos were posted on the social media
site on 18 May, hundreds of protesters took to the
streets calling for change to the country's rape laws,
and on 24 May six lawyers filed a petition at the
supreme court demanding the repeal of the statute. As a
result of public pressure, a man has been arrested in
connection with the case but under a section of the law
related to human trafficking.
Dechen Lama, a human rights lawyer who also works for
the Forum for Women, Law and Development, a Nepali
rights organisation, said: <The law is not comprehensive
…… It leads to so much unfairness and injustice. It has
to be changed. There are so many loopholes in the rape
law, most particularly the statute of limitation and the
definition of rape.> Nepal’s 2017 penal code extended
the statute of limitations on reporting rape allegations
from 35 days to a year. A report by the international
women’s rights organisation Equality Now found that in
comparison with five other south Asian countries, Nepal
has the shortest statute of limitations on sexual
violence cases. Activists and lawyers say the law stands
as a barrier to justice for rape survivors and that it
helps perpetrators to evade punishment. Smriti Singh,
Amnesty International’s south Asia deputy regional
director, said the stigma, shame, intimidation and
trauma associated with rape stopped many people from
coming forward. <This case has brought attention to how
grossly inadequate and ineffective the provision [for
rape survivors] is at this point,> she said. <The
one-year limitation is really outdated and harmful. It
does not factor in the stigma that survivors face when
reporting cases of sexual and gender-based violence.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/03/nepali-womans-account-of-rape-tiktok-prompts-wave-of-protest-over-laws
Mubasher - Al Jazeera
3 June 2022
<<A Lebanese hospital director assaulted a nurse who
demanded her rights.
Activists on social media circulated a video recording
showing the attack of a hospital director on a nurse who
demanded her financial rights. According to Lebanese
media, nurse Fatima Yahya was subjected to violence
after she demanded that she receive her dues, which she
did not pay for 4 months ago. Tweeters on the Twitter
platform said that Fatima was demanding her rights, when
the director beat her with a stick in front of her
colleagues. As a result of the incident, the Lebanese
Ministry of Health summoned those <concerned> about the
attack on the nurse at Bint Jbeil Governmental Hospital,
and pledged to conduct a comprehensive and transparent
investigation into the causes and circumstances of the
incident and to take the necessary decisions. The
ministry said in a statement: <A video clip is being
circulated on social media showing a sharp dispute that
has evolved into a stampede between a general manager of
a government hospital and one of the female employees.
to make the necessary decisions.> >>
Read more here:
https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/miscellaneous/2022/6/3/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%81%D9%89-%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%85%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A9
Al Jazeera
01 June 2022
<<Outrage in Pakistan after woman gang-raped on moving
train
Three suspects arrested for raping the 25-year-old
mother of two children in an empty compartment of the
Karachi-bound train.
A young woman has been allegedly raped by three men on a
moving train in Pakistan, in another incident that has
shocked the South Asian nation witnessing a rise in
sexual violence. The 25-year-old mother of two children
was on board the train last week when she was lured to
an empty compartment by a ticket checker and three men
raped her, Railways Police chief Faisal Shahkar said on
Tuesday.
Police arrested two suspects on Monday when the incident
came to the light and a third one was captured on
Tuesday, Shahkar said.
Local reports said the security and administration of
the Bahauddin Zakaria Express, heading to Pakistan's
largest city of Karachi from Multan, was in the hands of
a private company. The incident has drawn anger from
rights bodies, activists and the public as most people
called for stringent punishment to the culprits. <I wish
to see those behind this cruel act hanged by their
throats,> a man told Pakistani broadcaster Geo. In an
editorial on Wednesday, prominent Pakistani newspaper
Dawn called the incident <a ghastly crime> and
questioned why proper security arrangements were not
made in the train. <Another horrific incident of sexual
violence has come to light, underscoring how a cavalier
approach to security arrangements can embolden
criminally inclined men to indulge their worst
instincts,> it said. <[Womens] safety is the barometer
of a nation's values,> said the editorial. More than
14,000 women have been raped in Pakistan – nearly 11 a
day – in the past four years, according to official
data, but fewer than three percent of the offenders were
convicted.
Faulty investigations, a flawed justice system and
social taboos that discourage victims from seeking
justice are the factors behind the low conviction rate.
<This figure might be a tip of the iceberg because most
cases aren’t reported,> said the National Bureau of
Police, which compiled the statistics. Pakistan's
parliament passed a new anti-rape law last year that
allows courts to order the chemical castration of
offenders in some cases, but very little has been
changed since. The new law was enacted in response to
the gang rape of a Pakistan-French mother in front of
her children on a highway in the eastern city of Lahore.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
More than 14,000 women have been raped in Pakistan –
nearly 11 a day – in the past four years, according to
official data, but fewer than three percent of the
offenders were convicted. Faulty investigations, a
flawed justice system and social taboos that discourage
victims from seeking justice are the factors behind the
low conviction rate. <This figure might be a tip of the
iceberg because most cases aren’t reported,> said the
National Bureau of Police, which compiled the
statistics. Pakistan's parliament passed a new anti-rape
law last year that allows courts to order the chemical
castration of offenders in some cases, but very little
has been changed since. The new law was enacted in
response to the gang rape of a Pakistan-French mother in
front of her children on a highway in the eastern city
of Lahore.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/1/outrage-in-pakistan-after-woman-gang-raped-on-moving-train
Keep reading these embeded links on the article's page:
- 'Not a quitter': The Karachi doctor taking rapists to
court
- Pakistan court bans virginity tests for rape survivors
- 'Heinous, barbaric': Pakistan highway rape sparks
outrage
- The past few months have been harrowing for Pakistani
women
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