Posts Tagged ‘women’s rights’

• Who Will Defend the Defenders? Gambian Activists Face Smear Campaign

  October 26th, 2010 Dr. Isatou Touray and Amie Bojang Sissoho are two prominent women’s human rights defenders in the Gambia. They...

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• Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves…But Nobody Seems to Notice

  October 6th, 2010 Recently, Ahmedinejad’s closest aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, made comments that Iran must work to fight against the oppression...

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• The Science of Beating a Dead Horse: The Christian Science Monitor’s Hijab Series

  December 17th, 2009 Recently, The Christian Science Monitor published a series of articles centered around the hijab. While I appreciated the...

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• Driving Force: the n7nu Campaign in Saudi Arabia

  November 24th, 2009 The advertisement begins with a short video of a woman moving from the back seat to the front...

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• Grassroots Politics and Women’s Activism Forum in D.C.

  November 17th, 2009 While in Washington, D.C., last month, I attended a forum on Muslim women’s rights titled “Women and the...

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• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Women’s Rights in Kuwait

  October 26th, 2009 Two constitutional court cases in Kuwait raise questions of a paradigm shift in women's...

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• The Other Half of the Sky: the NYT Magazine’s Women’s Crusade Issue

  August 26th, 2009 At the heart of many of the problems plaguing Muslim women in developing nations is a dollar bill,...

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• Asra Nomani and the Mosque Crusade: Lofty or Ludicrous?

  June 15th, 2009 Mosque in Morgantown, a documentary about Asra Nomani’s quest to eradicate gender segregation in the mosque, airs tonight...

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• Are Afghan Women Really Canada’s Top Priority?

  April 13th, 2009 A few weeks ago, the news of a new law for Shi’a Muslims in Afghanistan was met with...

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• Oppressed and Downtrodden: The New York Times Profiles Abused Afghan Women

  March 25th, 2009 Covering Afghan women must be an especially hard task for many Western journalists. I say this because every...

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