On #HumanRightsDay2024 we rage against #SexApartheid #GenderApartheid in #Iran #Afghanistan
Segregation based on sex like that based on race is humiliating.
It’s dehumanising.
It kills.
It is a crime against humanity.
#SexApartheidKills
#SexApartheidHumiliates
*"Lifting the Veil on Violence Against Women Worldwide"*
On November 24, 100 FEMEN activists from different countries, including One Law for All's Spokesperson Maryam Namazie and Resident Artist Victoria Gugenheim, make an uncompromising…
Read full piece in The Freethinker: Feminism and religion are incompatible, 19 November 2024
This is an edited version of Maryam Namazie’s contribution to a Cambridge Union debate: ‘This House Believes Feminism is…
On 2 November, Ahoo, a female student from Tehran’s Science and Research University removed her clothes on campus in protest to being harassed by security forces over mandatory hijab rules. She was violently…
در حمایت از «دختر دانشکده علوم و تحقیقات» در لندن, BBC Persian, 9 November 2024
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In Solidarity with Ahoo Daryaei
در همبستگی با آهو دریایی
8 Nov, 3:30-4:30pm
Piccadilly Circus, London
On 2 November, a female student from Tehran's Science and Research University (apparently called Ahoo Daryaei) removed her clothes on campus…
Ex-Muslims are linked only in the movement for the rights to freedom of conscience, apostasy and blasphemy. An ex-Muslim can be progressive or reactionary, misogynist or feminist, anti-racist or racist… just as any…
We, the undersigned, stand in utter condemnation of the murderous violence against girls in Southport and mourn the lives lost and harmed by violence against women and girls in all its forms.
We are…
The world is getting its first Sikh court in London. That’s a threat to women’s rights, Guardian Comment is Free, 31 May 2024
With the UK judicial system cut to breaking point, conservative religious…
The Sikh Court: Parallel Justice Systems are a Danger to Women
We are alarmed by the establishment of a Sikh Court in the UK.
Spokespeople for The Sikh Court describe it as an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism…
The announcement of the world’s first Sikh ‘Court’ in London in April 2024 – and due to open for business on 1 June 2024 – demands our urgent attention.
For many years, some of…
Islamic charity trustee compares women without hijabs to ‘unwrapped sweets, Telegraph, 12 May 2024
A NEWLY registered Islamic charity has compared women who do not cover their heads to “unwrapped sweets”, in comments condemned…