The below is a shortened version of my speech at Marea Feminist Review and Consulta Torinese per la Laicita public events in Genoa and Turin,…
The struggle continues
On 11 July, the International Day against Stoning, brave women and men (including a 16 year old who had acid thrown on her face) marched…
Allah ordered the execution
Below is a Reuter’s report of a woman being executed near Kabul, Afghanistan by the Taliban this Sunday. It says she was accused of adultery…
What happened to all that talk on Afghan women’s rights?
The second Bonn conference starts today to determine Afghanistan’s future ten years after the fall of the Taliban. As was to be expected, women were…
Gulnaz pardoned… so she can marry her rapist
Hamid Karzai is pardoning Gulnaz, the Afghan woman serving a 12-year prison sentence after she was raped. But don’t get too excited. He is pardoning…
The EU, like Sharia courts, doesn’t want women to speak up
A few days ago, Ophelia Benson blogged about Gulnaz, the Afghan women jailed for 12 years after being raped in Afghanistan. On the day, I…