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THE BELOW (updated 12 MAR 2022)
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
2 Feb 2023
<<Kurdish Revolutionary Youth: Let's fight the patriarchy together
<We condemn the killings of women. Let's fight the patriarchy together,>
said the written statement issued by the Kurdish Revolutionary Youth in
Eastern Kurdistan calling on women's organizations and revolutionary
organizations to unite.
News Center- While the oppressive policies against women in Iran and
Rojhilat continue, more women are killed by the Iranian regime every day.
The Kurdish Revolutionary Youth in Eastern Kurdistan issued a written
statement condemning the killings of women and violence against women by
the regime forces. The statement called on everyone to take to streets
to protest the oppressive policies and violence against women.
'We have no choice but to win'
Recalling that three women named Negin Rostami, Firouzeh Moradi and
Zohra Landi were murdered in the past few days due to the Iranian
government policies, the statement said: <We condemn the killings of
women. Let's fight the patriarchy together. One of the main reasons for
the increase in crime and violence against women is the policies of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. Strengthening women's struggle against the
misogynistic policies, the patriarchal culture and mentality is a must.
In addition, the active women's organizations and revolutionary
organizations must unite to prevent femicide. Strengthening our
revolutionary ties and taking a joint stand against all kinds of
misogynistic policies is important.
'Islamic capitalism seeks victims'
<Negin Rostami was threatened many times by her ex-husband. She fought
for her life at hospital after being set on fire by him. Firouzeh Moradi
was stabbed to death by her brother. These massacres took place after
the five-month revolutionary uprising of the Iranian peop-le. We cannot
separate these massacres from 43 years of massacre policies, torture in
prisons and poverty. Islamic capitalism seeks vic-tims for itself and
its victims are women. Iranian women who have burned their headscarves
have declared that they have burned their headscarves not only against
Iranian laws, but also against all Iranian regime forces in the region.
'We must weave a common struggle'
<Men and women should join hands and weave a common struggle against all
kinds of backward mentality. We can keep watches in groups of two or
three against all kinds of crimes against women city-by-city and
street-by-street for the safety of our lives and women in our
neighborhoods. We have no choice but to win. We must first secure our
lives and our freedom and then win a victory.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/kurdish-revolutionary-youth-let-s-fight-the-patriarchy-together-32727
The Guardian
1 Feb 2023
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By Parveen Latif Ansari
<<Pakistan's textile industry is in crisis - and women are bearing the
brunt of its decline
The threat of permanently lost jobs means many are frightened to speak
up over basic labour rights. My organisation helps women fight for their
jobs - and decent conditions
Over the years, women in Pakistan's once thriving textile industry have
played a crucial role supplying Europe and the US with items from denim
to towels. But since the pandemic, 7 million workers have been laid off
due to low exports and the country's grave eco-nomic crisis. In my city,
Faisalabad, hundreds of thousands of the 1.3 million textile workers -
half of whom are women - have lost their jobs and the jobs of a huge
number are on the brink. For Faisalabad's female textile workers the
biggest worry is that these jobs will be lost for ever. That is worse
than their delayed and underpaid salaries, the harassment they face at
work and having no healthcare facilities. For those rural women who
travel to the fac-tories from surrounding areas early in the morning and
work long days for low pay, this is their only source of income. My city
is known as the Manchester of Pakistan, and produces textiles for the
world.
But the pressure on the industry is immense: electricity costs have
doubled; floods have devastated cotton fields, adding to shortages; the
government has placed limitations on credit. Hundreds of fac-tories have
closed or are working short shifts. Workers have been fired. Even the
cottage industry of female workers, sewing at home, lacks support or
incentives. They make gloves, socks and stockings for less than a dollar
a day. I believe this artisanal work has huge potential and the
government should declare it an industry, ensuring respectable wages.
The Women Workers' Alliance (WWA) is protes-ting against the mass
layoffs in the industry, and demanding workers are paid. I’ve conducted
education sessions with hundreds of women over labour laws and
collective rights but still there is a lack of awareness. We estimate
that of more than 150,000 workers in the hosiery sector alone, only
4,200 have social security cards. Women are reluctant to raise their
voices because they fear it will mean losing their jobs. WWA has helped
workers form anti-harassment committees in textile sectors and other
industries.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/01/pakistan-textile-industry-crisis-women?utm_term=63da1c032c6aeb03e1f2932b082a981c&utm_campaign=HerStage&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=herstage_email
The Guardian
1 Feb 2023
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By Sarah Johnson
<<Interview
'These women saved lives': the film inspired by surviving Rwanda's
genocide
As a child, Jo Ingabire Moys saw the slaughter of her family. Thirty
years on, her film Bazigaga, about a shaman heroine of the geno-cide, is
shortlisted for a Bafta. As Jo Ingabire Moys lay wounded on the floor,
surrounded by the bodies of her family, her 14-year-old neighbour, Arifa,
came in to the house in Kigali to see if anyone was alive. Moments
earlier, Ingabire Moys's father had prayed before the bullets sprayed
their home. He was killed, with two of his children and a cousin;
Ingabire Moys, two other siblings and her mother survived. <Our family
name was on the list and they lined everybody up and shot us with the
purpose of extermination,> says Ingabire Moys. <We didn't think anyone
would survive.> It was 1994, and the Rwandan genocide had just begun.
Ingabire Moys’s family were among hundreds of thousands of people
targeted because they were Tutsis. Arifa, a Hutu, was the only neighbour
to check on the family. She brought them supplies until they could
escape from the city and helped bury their dead. <We were the only Tutsi
family on the street. No one came to see what happened or to help,
except her,> says Ingabire Moys. <She saved our lives.> Almost 30 years
later, Ingabire Moys's experience, and all that followed, led her to
make Bazigaga, a film about the Rwandan genocide, which has been
nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (Bafta).
The winners will be announced on 19 February. The story follows a Tutsi
pastor and his young daughter, who take shelter in the hut of a feared
Hutu shaman, Bazigaga, and is inspired by the true story of Zura
Karuhimbi, a Hutu woman believed to possess supernatural powers, who
saved more than 100 people during the genocide. The film is also a
tribute to Rwandan women and those who helped Ingabire Moys, now 33,
during some of the darkest moments in her life. <I was fascinated by the
role of women in the genocide,> she says. <Often you hear stories of
women being victims, which they were, but I was interested in the other
side. I felt like that's the story I could tell. I thought this was a
great opportunity to pay homage to the Rwandan women who saved many
lives, including my own.> Ingabire Moys heard the story of Karuhimbi
when she visited the Rwandan genocide memorial aged 25. She had been
living in the UK since she was 14 and wanted to reconnect with her
family history. <Zura's story is unbelievable; it has so many layers to
it. She was a woman who rescued hundreds of people on her own and the
way she did it was using people’s superstitions against them. <[Her
story] raised questions that I wanted to explore about Rwandan society.
Why were people scared of someone like her, playing on their
preconceptions of dark magic, but they weren’t afraid to kill people in
churches?>The film looks at the dynamic be-tween the pastor and shaman,
which Ingabire Moys says is <an allegory of the Hutu-Tutsi conflict>.
<On paper, these are people who are as different as they could be, but
once they're stuck to-gether you realise they're similar in many ways.
The only thing that pulls them apart are false belief systems about each
other.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/01/bazigaga-film-rwanda-genocide-jo-ingabire-moys-bafta
The Guardian
28 Jan 2023
By PA Media
<<Boy arrested after girl, 15, stabbed to death in Northumberland
A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a
15-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Northumberland. Northumbria
police were called shortly after 5.10pm on Friday to a report of a
teenage boy and girl injured in the Priestpopple area of Hexham.
Emergency services attended where the boy and girl - aged 16 and 15
respectively - suffered serious injuries <consistent with having been
caused by a bladed article>. They were both taken to hospital, where the
girl died later that evening - the boy suffered serious,
non-life-threatening injuries. The force said: <Both of their families
are being supported by specially trained officers at this devastating
time. An investigation was launched, and a 16-year-old boy was arrested
on suspicion of assault, and later on suspicion of murder. He remains in
police custody. <Our thoughts are with all loved ones at this awful
time, and we are supporting them in every way we can. We are determined
to find out what happened & bring anyone involved to justice.> Ch Supt
Sam Rennison, of Northumbria police, said it is <tragic news> and that
police believe all those involved are known to each other. At a press
conference on Saturday, she said: <First and foremost, our hearts go out
to her loved ones at this truly devastating time. <A 16-year-old boy who
was also injured during the incident remains in hospital in a stable
condition. He and his family are also very much in our thoughts. An
investigation was immediately launched and while this is at the very
early stages, we do believe all those involved are known to each other.
We would like to thank the public for their continued support and
cooperation. In particular, those who tried to provide assistance
yesterday to the injured boy and girl at the scene.> Derek Kennedy, the
mayor of Hexham, told PA: <It's an absolute tragedy, the town is in
complete shock, to lose one of our children who attends a local high
school is just horrendous. Parents are really anxious for the health of
their children because they're all a part of this community, the schools
are all really anxious that their children are really feeling the pain
and suffering and shock of such an awful incident.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/28/boy-arrested-after-girl-15-stabbed-to-death-in-hexham-northumbria
The Guardian
26 Jan 2023
By Michael Goodler
<<Sexual offences logged by police in England and Wales hit record high
There were 199,021 sexual offences and 70,633 rapes recorded by forces
in year to September 2022
The number of sexual offences recorded by police reached a record high
in the year to September, increasing by more than a fifth com-pared with
before the pandemic. Home Office figures published on Thursday found
there were 199,021 sexual offences recorded by forces across England and
Wales in the year to September 2022, as well as 70,633 rapes. That was
22% higher than in the year ending March 2020, before the coronavirus
pandemic. The number of recor-ded sex offences dropped during Covid-19
lockdowns, but there has been a sustained rise since April last year.
The figures suggest a high number of historical sex crimes are being
reported. Looking only at police forces that provide extra data to the
Home Office, 22% of all sexual offences and 31% of rapes recorded were
for crimes that had taken place more than a year earlier. Separate
figures from the crime survey of England and Wales - used to measure the
prevalence of actual crime over time – found no statistically
significant rise in sex crime over the period, suggesting the increase
in the police figures is at least partly because victims are more likely
to come forward, and police are better at recording. A number of
high-profile sexual assault cases happened over the year to September,
including the sentencing of the police officer Wayne Couzens for the
rape and murder of Sarah Everard, and the arrest of the police officer
David Carrick, revealed to be a serial rapist. Diana Fawcett, the chief
executive of the Victim Support charity, said: <This huge rise in
recorded sexual offences comes as the percentage of cases seeing justice
has plummeted to an abysmal new low. Charges for rape and sexual
offences have been falling sharply for the past six years - the system
is in crisis. We are on a path to destroying victims’ faith in the
criminal justice system altogether. <Police and the CPS have a duty to
survivors who have experienced life-changing trauma - they must do
better and start delivering justice.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/26/sexual-offences-logged-by-police-england-wales-record-high
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