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Womens Shelter in Istanbul
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26 Nov 2007 Mon 06:25 pm |
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Quoting MarioninTurkey: I found the article fascinating, not just because I agree with the topic of women's shelters (Mor Çatı has been doing a wonderful work here formany many years) but also:
a) It is in Todays Zaman - which as Alpha F points out is a newspaper published by a more religious media group
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b) some fascianting quotes e.g.:
In just three hours, around 300 signatures were collected. ..Several women expressed their surprise at seeing male activists engaged in the topic. “It is very nice that men also show their support for the issue,†said Zeynep, 56.
“It is mostly older women who are aware of the problem,†says AI-Turkey member Özlem Çolak (24), adding that headscarved women in particular are very open to discussing the situation. “They always listen and often sign,†she said. “The younger women, though, often wave it off and do not take the issue seriously.â€
Interestingly, some women refused to sign but accepted a gift the activists had prepared: a small hand mirror on which the phone number of a women’s helpline, Mor Çatı, was written.
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Interestingly enough, the same is true of women in the US. Older women are more likely to listen and ask for help. In my opinion, it is because at this point their children are grown and they feel a little more secure in leaving. Younger women will take your information but will often shrug you off.
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26 Nov 2007 Mon 07:40 pm |
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Quoting Elisabeth:
Interestingly enough, the same is true of women in the US. Older women are more likely to listen and ask for help. In my opinion, it is because at this point their children are grown and they feel a little more secure in leaving. Younger women will take your information but will often shrug you off. |
lisa, it is soooooo different!
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 12:22 am |
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At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of pandemic proportions. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.
sad, very sad!
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 01:00 am |
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Abuse is not always physical, but can also be mental.
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 07:37 pm |
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how they lift a woman!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7107379.stm
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 07:48 pm |
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Quoting femme_fatal: how they lift a woman!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7107379.stm |
Thanks for sharing that - I hadn't seen it. What a hypocritical country it is. And..how brave Shadi Sadr is - thank God for people like her.
The interview will be on BBC World Service on December 5th :-
"Crossing Continents on BBC Radio 4 tells Leila's story on Thursday, November 29 at 1100 GMT, her story will also be told on the World Service programme Assignment on Wednesday, December 5 at 0900 GMT.
Leila's interview was recorded by the Iranian filmmaker, Hamid Rahmanian for a forthcoming film about the Omid e Mehr."
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 08:25 pm |
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Iran: Use of the word women 'banned from state TV'
Tehran, 29 Nov. (AKI) - The word 'women' must now be replaced on Iranian state television by 'family', reformist Norouz news agency reports.
In programmes broadcast throughout the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women last Sunday, Iranian state TV used the world family instead.
In recent weeks, Iran's Centre for the Participation of Women changed its name to the Centre for Family Matters.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.1613494695
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 08:27 pm |
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Yet another ‘honour killing’ in Pakistan
Islamabad: A girl in Pakistan's Punjab province became victim of an 'honour killing' when she was axed to death by her father and close relatives for allegedly having an affair with a boy from her locality.
The girl was killed after her father, Farooq Khan Baloch, became suspicious that his daughter was having an affair with Amjad, a youngster in Jhang tehsil in Punjab province. Seeing them together, Farooq with relatives Sher Khan, Asghar Khan and Riaz Khan, axed the girl to death, while the boy managed to escape, The Dawn newspaper reported on Thursday.
The police have registered a case. It said that 'honour killings' are widespread among rural Muslim tribes in Pakistan where the victims are mostly female.
The spilling of blood under the garb of honour is mostly at the behest of close family members with the aim of undoing the perceived loss of wider family status owing to the actions of the victim.
Ghazala, a woman in the Punjab province's Joharabad, was set on fire by her brother on January 6, 1999. She was murdered because her family suspected her of having an illicit relationship with a neighbour.
Women in Pakistan face death by shooting, burning or killing with axes if they are deemed to have brought shame on the family. They are killed for supposed illicit relationships, for marrying men of their choice, for divorcing husbands. They are even murdered by their kin if they are raped as they are thereby deemed to have brought shame on their family.
Often, the truth of the suspicion does not matter; merely the allegation is enough to bring dishonour on the family and therefore justifies the slaying.
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14568914
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 08:27 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Quoting femme_fatal: how they lift a woman!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7107379.stm |
Thanks for sharing that - I hadn't seen it. What a hypocritical country it is. And..how brave Shadi Sadr is - thank God for people like her.
The interview will be on BBC World Service on December 5th :-
"Crossing Continents on BBC Radio 4 tells Leila's story on Thursday, November 29 at 1100 GMT, her story will also be told on the World Service programme Assignment on Wednesday, December 5 at 0900 GMT.
Leila's interview was recorded by the Iranian filmmaker, Hamid Rahmanian for a forthcoming film about the Omid e Mehr."
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Hideous article....mans inhumanity to man is astrounding. On the same page I found this...not about women....but still
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7123039.stm
What is becoming of the human race?
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02 Dec 2007 Sun 08:28 pm |
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Quoting femme_fatal: Iran: Use of the word women 'banned from state TV'
Tehran, 29 Nov. (AKI) - The word 'women' must now be replaced on Iranian state television by 'family', |
If I don't laugh I will cry!!!! Femme you are a wonderful family for posting it .... thanks!
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