Muslim women
- Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite
- • May 6, 2014
KURDISTAN, Iraq — For many women in Kurdistan, life is anything but honorable. We have come to this autonomous region in northern Iraq as social anthropologists to research violence against women — particularly, honor killings — by interviewing local…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Joseph Chamie
- • February 2, 2014
A large amount of news, analysis and political rhetoric is disseminated daily about the current American-initiated Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. However, comparatively little attention — and, hence, insufficient understanding — is given to a  critical aspect of the decades-old…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 17, 2012
The saddest stories told by vulnerable women in villages or slum shacks across the developing world most often involve violence or subjugation that they must bear because they don’t know how, or don’t have the means, to escape a…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Women
- Jenny Marc
- • April 19, 2012
Sanjar Qiam can readily recite examples of domestic abuse in his country, Afghanistan. “Just last week we received a call from neighbors,” Qiam, the director of a Kabul-based communications business, Gandeeray, recalled in a phone interview from his home…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 14, 2012
In an unusual joint call for action, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the president of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar, are asking United Nations members to convene a world conference on women in 2015, the 20th anniversary…
- Categories: General Assembly, Women
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