Category: Stopping Misogyny

Challenging Misogyny and Violence Against Women

Guinea: “In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women Are Prey”

— In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women Are Prey
— NYT reports: “Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, beatings and acts of intentional humiliation”
— “The exact number of women who were abused is not known. Because of the shame associated with sexual violence in this West African country, victims are reluctant to speak, and local doctors refuse to do so. Victims who told of the attacks would not provide their names because they were afraid of retribution.”
— NYT describes Guinea as a “Muslim” country

— IslamOnline reports story as “Horrific Mass Rapes in Muslim Guinea”

Iran: Women’s rights activist sentenced to six months in jail

Iran: Women’s rights activist sentenced to six months in jail
— AKI reports:
— “A women’s rights activist and journalist has been sentenced to six months in jail by one of Iran’s Revolutionary Courts in the capital, Tehran, for having ‘endangered state security’.”
— “Jelveh Javaheri, arrested in June 2008 for protesting in the centre of Tehran in favour of women’s political and civil rights, was subsequently freed from Iran’s notorious Evin prison and her sentence has only now been made public, Iran’s Radiofarda said.”
— “She was charged with ‘acting against national security by spreading propaganda against the state.'”
— “Javaheri had been previously arrested in May and was freed after posting a bail of 75.000 euros. She was the founding member of the Campaign for Equality.”
— “Javaheri is part of a group of Iranian feminists that begun a national campaign two years ago to abolish all of of Iran’s discriminatory laws against women.”

Belfast: Detective Concerned Over Unsolved Potential “Honor Killing” of Shafilea Ahmed

Belfast Telegraph: “Maddie investigator Dave Edgar recalls the horrific cases that still haunt him”
— “Shafilea Ahmed, 17, who vanished from her home in Warrington, Cheshire on September 11 2003”
— “Dave suspected an ‘honour killing’ but the killer or killers were never brought to justice.
— “A coroner ruled last year that Shafilea was murdered after rejecting an arranged marriage.
— “Before her death, Shafilea drank bleach in an act of self-harm.
— “Dave said: ‘It’s the one that got away for me, and the one I’ll always be bitter about.'”
— “‘It was horrific to find her body so badly decomposed in that river. Honour killings these days are getting out of control.'”

Yemen: Child-bride, 12, dies in Yemen after struggling to give birth for three days – Fawziya Abdullah Youssef

Yemen: Child-bride, 12, dies in Yemen after struggling to give birth for three days – Fawziya Abdullah Youssef
— “Youssef was only 11 when her father married her to a 24-year-old man who works as a farmer in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed al-Quraishi”