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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
Read all about the Zan, zendagi, azadi!> (Women,
life, freedom) women revolution in Iran by clicking here
Jinha
Womens News Agency
15 Nov 2022
<<Istar Assembly announces its program for November 25.
Makhmur- The Istar Assembly in the Makhmur refugee camp issued a press
statement to announce its program for the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women. Reading the statement, Gurbet
Islek, coordinating member of the Istar Assembly , announced the
program. She started reading the statement by commemorating those who
lost their lives in the women's freedom struggle. <Many women such as
Rosa Luxemburg, the Mirabal sisters, Sara, Seve, Deniz Poyraz, Helbest
and Nagihan waged a great struggle against the patriarchal system and
left a great legacy for us. As the women's struggle grows, women are
subjected to rape, torture and torture. We are determined to expand our
struggle for a democratic, equal and free life. The fascist Turkish
state and its supporters have carried out attacks in our region to
destroy Kurds and women's struggle for freedom. The aggravated isolation
imposed upon leader Apo |Kurdisch leader jailed in solitary by the
turkish government| has been deepening. Leader Apo has dedicated his
life to women's freedom. That's why we think it's important to welcome
the 25th of November. It's time for the women's revolution with the
slogan, 'jin, jiyan, azadi' |is the Kurdisch language slogan|.> >>
Read more here which includes the programm:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/Istar-assembly-announces-its-program-for-november-25-32272
The Guardian
11 Nov 2022
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<<MPs facing sexual assault claims could be banned from parliament.
MPs suspected of sexual misconduct could be banned from the
parliamentary estate by a panel of MPs, under plans considered by
officials, it has been reported. Campaigners have been calling for the
introduction of formal bans after Imran Ahmad Khan attended parliament
while he was awaiting trial for sexual assault, despite telling Tory
officials he would stay away. Khan was sentenced to 18 months in jail
for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy after plying him with gin at a
party in 2008. Meanwhile, a Conservative MP in his 50s who was arrested
on suspicion of sexual assault, indecent assault and rape has been asked
to stay away from parliament, but Tory whips will not decide whether the
whip should be formally removed until the investigation is completed.
The Commons commission is to meet on Monday to discuss a new paper on
how to exclude MPs facing claims of sexual assault. While politicians
have previously suggested exclusion should occur when an MP is charged,
they are now being asked to consider exclusion on arrest. Experts are
understood to believe the ban would need to be approved by MPs, but it
would not require legislation. A senior parliamentary official told
Politico: <We’re presented with lots of reasons why it can't happen, but
it's about formalising something that already exists. We've already
recognised that having an alleged rapist in the workplace isn't
acceptable.> A source told the Guardian it was right for the rules to be
reviewed as they were <decades old> and should be <the same for
everyone>. <Surely laws should be modern and the ban should reflect the
severity of the offence, moving us into a recent century,> they said.
Fresh accounts of Westminster sleaze have dominated politics this year,
including the Tory MP Neil Parish quitting politics after admitting to
watching pornography in the Commons, and Chris Pincher being forced to
step down and having the Tory whip removed over allegations of sexual
assault.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/11/mps-facing-sexual-assault-charges-could-be-banned-from-parliament
The Guardian
5 Nov 2022
By Kim Willsher in Paris
<<Man convicted of raping girl, 11, in case that led to change in French
law.
A 33-year-old man has been convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl in a
landmark case that led to the establishing of an age of consent in
France. The accused, who has not been named, admitted having sex with
the secondary school pupil in 2017 after meeting her in a park. He was
28 at the time and insisted the girl had consented. Late on Friday, the
man was found guilty of raping a minor and given an eight-year prison
sentence. At an earlier trial almost five years ago, there was public
outrage after a charge of rape was reduced to sexual assault. The
subsequent political row led to a minimum age of consent of 15 being
established in France in April last year. Until then, French law had
required an accuser under the age of 15 to show there was <violence,
constraint, threat or surprise>, in the absence of which investigators
classified the incident as the lesser offence of sexual abuse. Now the
law deems sex with anyone under the age of 15 as automatically
non-consensual, and therefore rape.
A new investigation was ordered. As the law cannot be applied retro-spectively,
the case was judged under the previous legislation. The man was accused
of rape after magistrates decided there was <moral constraint and
surprise> in his actions. The trial, which began on Wednesday and was
closed to the public and press, was judged by a professional panel of
five magistrates without a jury. A number of child protection and
feminist associations that were civil parties in the case were allowed
to attend. According to the indictment, the man first spoke to the girl
in a park near the entran-ce to her school in Montmagny, in the Val-d'Oise
north of Paris, in April 2017. A few days later they met again and he
suggested he <teach her to kiss … and more>, then invited her back to
his apart-ment nearby. The girl did not refuse and followed him. She was
performing oral sex on him in the stairwell on the ninth floor of the
social housing block when the pair were interrupted by a caretaker. The
girl then went to the man's apartment two floors below where
<penetration without violence> took place. Afterwards, the girl said, he
told her not to say anything about what happened but she immediately
called her mother to say she had been raped.
....
She |editor's note: the mother| described Friday's judgment as <fair>
and said it was <a recognition of the victim's word above all>. <It is
also a victory for the law, since the case has led to legislative
changes,> she said. <At the time of these events, French law was behind
other European legislation.> >>
Read all here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/05/man-convicted-of-raping-girl-11-in-case-that-led-to-change-in-french-law
The Guardian
Associated Press in Johannesburg
27 Oct 2022
<<Outrage in South Africa as charges dropped in gang rape case.
Women's rights groups in South Africa have voiced their outrage and
criticised police after charges were dropped against 14 men accused of
gang raping and robbing female members of a film crew at an abandoned
mine in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg. State prosecutors said there
was insufficient evidence against the men to proceed with the case. The
men, believed to be illegal miners, were arrested during a police raid
at the mine after at least eight women were attacked and raped while
filming a music video in July. Reports of the rapes sparked violent
protests in townships around Krugers-dorp as community members accused
the small-scale miners working in the abandoned mine shafts of the
crimes. The protesters descended on the abandoned mines, blocking the
holes the miners used to go underground and burning their makeshift
tents and belongings. Miners were apprehended, assaulted and handed to
the police. The minister of police, Bheki Cele, called the rapes the
<shame of the nation> and police initially arrested more than 80 men
before charges were laid against 14. However, the rape and robbery
charges were withdrawn on Thursday and South Africa's national
prosecuting authority (NPA) said DNA results could not link any of the
men to the rapes. <Upon consultation with the com-plainants in the
matter, and evidential material currently at the disposal of the NPA, it
became apparent that there is insufficient evidence to proceed with the
prosecution,> an NPA spokesperson, Phindi Mjonondwane, said. The
Commission for Gender Equality, an organisation that advocates for
women's rights, called on police to quickly relaunch an investigation.
<We are completely outraged at these latest developments, which means
the police have no idea who committed this crime. They arrested the
wrong people, so the real criminals are still out there,> its
spokesperson, Javu Baloyi, said.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/outrage-in-south-africa-as-charges-dropped-in-gang-case
Al Jazeera
8 Oct 2022
By Dr. Nida Kirmani
<<The past few months have been harrowing for Pakistani women
There appears to have been a surge in violence against women, but in
truth it is nothing new. It is just that we are more aware of it now and
more women are fighting back.
The last few months have been particularly harrowing for Pakistani
women. From the horrific case of 27-year-old Noor Muqaddam, who was
brutally tortured and beheaded in the nation’s capital on July 21, to
that of Ayesha Ikram, a TikTok creator, who was harassed and groped on
the country's Independence Day by more than 400 men on the grounds of
one of the country's major national monuments, the Minar-e-Pakistan in
Lahore - it feels as if violence against women has reached epidemic
proportions. Many are even calling it a <femicide> to draw attention to
the scale of the problem and its systemic nature. But gender-based
violence in the country is not new. According to the 2017-2018 Pakistan
Demographic and Health Survey, 28 percent of women aged 15 to 49 had
experienced intimate partner violence in their lifetimes. This is a
slight decrease from 32 percent of the women reported to have
experienced physical violence at the hands of their partners in the
2012-2013 survey. But given that domestic violence is an issue shrouded
in secrecy and shame, both sets of figures are likely a gross
under-estimation. One suspects that it feels like there is a surge in
violence because cases are getting more attention. Mainstream media is
more attuned to the issue, and it is also being highlighted and
discussed on social media platforms. These conversations have created
heightened awareness among young women in particular, who are becoming
increasingly vocal about their rights. The vast majority of these women
belong to the educated, urban middle and upper classes.
This is just the latest in the long history of the struggle against
gender-based violence in Pakistan. In the past, particular cases have
drawn national as well international attention, leading to collective
action by rights activists. One such case was that of 28-year-old Samia
Sarwar, whose murder was arranged by her family in 1999. She had been
seeking a divorce from her violent husband, a decision her family did
not support because it would have <dishonoured> the family name. She was
shot dead in the offices of Hina Jilani, a well-respected Supreme Court
lawyer and human rights activist. Sarwar had been there for a
pre-arranged meeting with her mother to receive the divorce papers. Her
murder started a national conver-sation about honour killings. Women's
rights activists, including Jilani and her sister Asma Jahangir, also a
renowned human rights lawyer and activist, highlighted it to advocate
for an end to gender-based violence. But there were counter-protests
from religious conservatives arguing that Sarwar's feminist lawyers had
no business interfering in a question of <family honour>. To this day,
the perpetrators have not been brought to justice. Another
well-documented case is that of Mukhtaran Mai, who was gang-raped in
June 2002 by four men in Meerwala village in southern Punjab's
Muzaffargarh district. Mai was raped on the orders of a village council
as <punishment> for her younger brother's alleged illegitimate
relationship with a woman from a rival tribe.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/10/8/violence-against-women-in-pakistan-is-not-new-but-it-must-stop
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: More cases are described and one more chilling
to the bone than the other but please do read it and become an activist!
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