Category: Media
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#Hair4Freedom Revisited
One Law For All and FiLiA charity are again joining forces as part of the Hair4Freedom campaign launched in November 2022. Our first joint action in central London saw women line up to cut their hair in solidarity with the women’s revolution in Iran, in an event lasting hours and making headlines around the world.…
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Iran’s participation in the World Cup is “unethical and immoral”
Iran’s World Cup fans fear ‘thousands of spies’: Why England’s opening match in Qatar is much more than a game, i, 19 November 2022 Pressure is growing on Iranian players and fans present in Doha to show solidarity with the protesters at home when Iran face England on Monday. When England play Iran in their…
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#Women4Nazanin
Women stage global fast to pressure UK to bring Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe home. FILIA CEO Lisa-Marie Taylor and Iranian writer/campaigner Maryam Namazie launch #Women4Nazanin Solidarity Action by starting the fasting relay today 20 December. Women – keep registering to fast for a day and send a message to Boris Johnson to #FreeNazaninNow See Maryam Namazie’s interview…
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When Women Leave Islam: With Maryam Namazie, Secular Jihadists, 27 April 2021
When Women Leave Islam: With Maryam Namazie, Secular Jihadists, 27 April 2021
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Maryam Namazie, Human Rights Activist, Meenal’s World, 6 February 2021
Maryam Namazie, Human Rights Activist, Meenal’s World, 6 February 2021 Maryam’s work has focused on human rights violations against refugees, and has actively campaigned against sharia law. Maryam became well known for her critique of the treatment of women under Islamic regimes. We talk about her family history and her views on the right to…
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Women Leaving Islam – New Film Premiere on 1 February, World Hijab Day
Women Leaving Islam, a new film by CEMB, premiered on 1 February as a challenge to #WorldHijabDay and religious modesty rules. You can watch the film here. In this powerful film, six ex-Muslim women activists share their moving stories of growing up in Muslim families and Muslim-majority countries and the violence, loss and shunning they…
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The problem is murder, not speech
The focus on limits to free speech when a teacher has been decapitated is like focusing on a woman’s skirt when she has been raped. One does not cause the other. Your focus on speech offends me – the difference is I don’t threaten or kill for my offended sensibilities. The problem is murder not…
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The end of free speech?, Bristol Festival of Ideas panel discussion
Here is the audio recording of The end of free speech panel discussion at the Bristol Festival of Ideas on 19 March 2016.