Birth of my Daughter - El Nacimiento de mi Hija : ana alvarez-errecalde. Con este autorretrato documental (sin photoshop ni técnicas de manipulación de la imagen) en parto quiero desafiar las maternidades “de película” que el cine, la publicidad y la historia del arte enseñan reforzando el estereotipo surgido de las fantasías heterosexuales masculinas que responde a la dualidad madre/puta.
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Domestic violence. تغيير. متى التغيير؟ Feminist Egyptian graffiti... Alexandria Work. Thepeoplesrecord: Women in Graffiti: A tribute... Women Use Graffiti Art to Protest Egyptian Government. After playing an integral part of the revolutionary efforts last year, Egyptian women fear their rights will not be incorporated into the country’s political reforms.
Despite being present on the streets and suffering abuse during the protests, female protesters were later subjected to government-supported virginity tests and other invasive fear tactics. Women have stated that the government took the last thing that truly belonged to them — their bodies — and that they have little options available to communicate their discontent and opposition. An effort to paint Cairo in graffiti art has gained popularity by women and girls who are determined to voice their convictions and demand equal representation in political decisions. Street artist El Zeft pays tribute to Egypt’s female rebels.
Egyptian Street artist El Zeft took it upon himself to pay tribute to the Egyptian revolution’s female rebels.
Education Ministry faces heat after deleting unveiled feminist from textbooks. The picture of a women's rights pioneer was deleted from a high school textbook because she was not wearing a hijab, prompting fierce condemnation from political parties, human rigths organizations, feminist groups and a number of public figures.
The 2013-2014 school year edition of the National Education textbooks for Grades 11 and 12 were edited to delete the picture of Doriya Shafiq and pictures of those killed during the 25 January revolution. In a statement Sunday, the organizations and parties opposed to the move also condemned the statements of Mohamed Sherif, philosophy and national education adviser to the Ministry of Education, who told the privately owned Al-Dostour that Shafiq's picutre was deleted after "some religious satellite channels" objected to her not wearing the hijab. نون. BuSSy Monologues. Mahatat Collective, Bussy. Www.unesco.org/education/pdf/283_102.pdf. Education - Week 4: Education and empowerment of women and girls. The empowerment of women is crucial to change some of the societal attitudes and behaviours that discriminate against girls and women.
The empowerment of women is therefore linked to the empowerment of girls and to the full enjoyment of their rights. Pact Cambodia. Pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnacb230. Www.care.org/newsroom/publications/whitepapers/woman_and_empowerment.pdf. Www.literacy.org/sites/literacy.org/files/publications/kehrberg_womens_lit_in_Nepal_96.pdf. Ed_emp/documents/publication/wcms_150831.pdf. Empowering Women as Key Change Agents. Non-formal Education as an Important Strategy for Youth Empowerment. Development Bulletin 56 20 findings when studying non-formal education in Fiji, New Caledonia and Micronesia in the 1980s.
The two most successful non-formal education projects, which I revisited ten years later, were stil l oper atin g very suc cess full y , hav ing re-o rien ted them sel ves well to take accoun t of new chall enges, in parti cular the challe nge of gender inclusion. They w ere the Maisons Familiales Rurales in New Caledonia and the Tutu T raining Centre in Taveuni, Fiji. Notable about both is the community input into decision making and the reluctance of both to become too reliant on government, particularly on ministries of education. Both were started by visionary leaders, who had a larger vision than just providing some training, yet neither remained dependent on those leaders.
Ccsindia/downloads/intern-papers-07/Education-for-Womens-Empowerment-183.pdf. Www.wesoeduonline.com/journals/teacher perspective/ADULT EDUCATION AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION A PANACEA.pdf. Www.iknowpolitics.org/sites/default/files/womens20movement20in20eg20and20turkey_unrisd.pdf. In the cradle of Egypt’s revolution, women will no longer be silenced. Egyptian women marching for their rights at a recent protest Nadine Saleh has spent most of her life wishing that she could walk down the streets of Cairo without fear of being sexually harassed.
By the end of 2010, she had all but given up hope. And then came the January 25 revolution. Nadine was 14 years old when her parents first told her that she could not go to the local store in an up-scale Cairo neighbourhood alone. But on January 26 2011, the 21-year-old university student snuck out and headed to Tahrir Square with her best friend. The Voice & The Veil: Egypt's Revolutionary Women. CAIRO, Egypt — The Tahrir Square atmosphere in early 2011 that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak provided a glimpse of an Egypt that could be.
Despite the odds against, a vibrant and multifaceted women’s rights movement continues to grow in post-Tahrir Egypt. But now, after Mubarak, after the elections which brought the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi into power, and after the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) disbanded the already shaky parliament (which only had eight women, out of over 500 seats) in a “soft coup,” the feminist situation may be more precarious than before the revolution. Many secular women fear what it could mean that Egypt’s new first lady wears a veil, and that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and their political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, has democratically taken both the presidency and the parliament. I’m an Egyptian Woman and I Like Being Sexually Harrassed. I wake up every morning looking forward to getting sexually harassed in Cairo.
Because a day gone by without being whistled at like cattle or groped like a melon at a vegetable store is a day unlived in this city. Right? I even dress according to how often I’d like to get harassed that day. Egypt : Egypt: The Voice of Women is Revolution. 8 March 2013 - This year, International Women’s Day comes at a difficult time in the history of our country and our feminist movement as Egyptian women continue to fight for our revolutionary demands and the values of justice, equality, freedom, and dignity.
For the third year since the Egyptian revolution, we find ourselves unable to celebrate our accomplishments in the face of ongoing policies of oppression, injustice and aggression, faced by the men and women of our precious country. Nevertheless, we are determined to carry on our national and revolutionary struggle to achieve the demands of the revolution and build a nation that befits our country and ourselves. On International Women’s Day 2011, just after we succeeded, together, in toppling Mubarak, we found ourselves living under military rule. By International Women’s Day 2012, we were in the midst of a struggle with the new regime, an alliance between the military and political Islamist forces. Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution. ضـد الـتـحـرش Exipcias (2) ربيع 2013 من النساء مصر Heya. شفت تحرش Shoft Ta7rosh ست الحيطة - Women on Walls. Mashrou3 Hagar: Art Empowers. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT. HarassMap - donate & help end sexual harassment in Egypt.
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Sexual harassment in Egypt has reached crisis level. In a UN Women 2013 study , 99.3% of Egyptian women surveyed admitted to being sexually harassed. Women's program. For Feminist Studies. Egyptian initiatives rally against sexual harassment - Analyses - Aswat Masriya. By Omnia Talal Denouncing all types of violence against women, a group of Egyptian initiatives has turned to a fresh approach to confront sexual harassment (in streets, squares and public transport facilities), that includes dancing, singing, theatrical performances and self defense. “Igmadi Did El Taharosh” (Stand Strong Against Sexual Harassment) is the name of an event that is organized by Harassmap and Wendo Self-Defense in collaboration with Zumba Fitness. “Come ready to dance, be empowered, test your knowledge, celebrate each other’s strength, and make new friends,” the organizers said on the event’s official Facebook page. Egyptian women speak of revolution. BEIRUT: “Better the shadow of a man,” an Egyptian proverb suggests, “than the shadow of a wall.”
A few years back, fledgling 20-something filmmaker Hanan Abdalla got a commission from U.N. Women (“ United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women”) to make a documentary about “women’s needs” in Egypt. As she was a novice making an institutional documentary for the mother of all institutions, her debut film ought to have been an earnest, overlong, stylistically arid window on a “representative cross section” of women in her country. Abdalla’s “In the Shadow of a Man” turned out to be a far more refined piece of work. «صعيدية» ترتدي ملابس الرجال منذ 60 عاما خوفا من الفتنة. Women Activists. Heba Morayef, Egypt Director, Human Rights Watch - Power Women 2013: Women To Watch This Year.
Women wage war against ‘sexual terrorism’ Sexual harassment victim Yasmin Baramawi speaks to AFP about her assault whle she was taking part in a Tahrir Square demonstration. — AFP CAIRO — Faced with a spike in sexual violence against female protesters, Egyptian women are overcoming stigma and recounting painful testimonies to force silent authorities and a reticent society to confront “sexual terrorism.” The victims of the attacks have been talking openly about their ordeals, insisting they will not be intimidated by a campaign they believe is aimed at shunning them from public life. Egypt activist Mona Seif, nominated for Geneva human rights prize, hits back at Zionist smear campaign. Mona Seif, the Egyptian co-founder of the No To Military Trials for Civilians Group , is one of three final nominees for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders . Her outspoken support for Palestine has, however, made her the target of a smear campaign by the right-wing Zionist group UN Watch, the Geneva-based affiliate of the American Jewish Committee .
The winner of the Martin Ennals award, jointly given with the City of Geneva each year, is decided by a jury consisting of ten leading human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch . The citation for Seif lauds her work before, during and after the 2011 uprising that led to the overthrow of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Here is an excerpt: In 2010, Mona’s human rights work intensified as she participated in protests against police brutality and torture following the death of Khaled Saeed in police custody. طعن فتاة في المهبل بعد اغتصابها واستئصال رحم أخرى في ميدان التحرير. A strange ode to the Egypt I love so far. What is it that makes us need to write?
I have been feeling the obligation to write for this blog since I arrived in Egypt, given the richness of subjects and new experiences, but I haven’t felt the irresistible urge to write – that is, when words spill around your brain like a moving body of water in an elastic plastic tub that you can’t control, sometimes colliding in masterpiece phrases or collections of twos and threes that you know you have to write down. This morning I was triggered. I was walking to the metro station from my flat, down the quiet and damp road. I overtook a 60 year old Egyptian man with a soft briefcase concentrating on the need to reach the ominous Mogama building in Tahrir Square to get my visa renewal before the ridiculous crushes of people made it impossible.
Egypt: Women activists attacked by military with particular ferocity. Local human rights watchdogs on Sunday accused the Egyptian military of systematically targeting female political activists, and demanded that Egypt’s military rulers admit to violations committed against demonstrators. Egyptian Superwomen (Part 1) Egyptian Superwomen (Part 2) International Women's Day: We salute five brave, inspirational women from round the world. International Women's Day takes place today, with celebrations, rallies, conferences, government activities and other events celebrating the achievements of women taking place all around the world.