Violence Against Women

Egypt’s Veiled First Lady: Clues To Where Women Fit Into New Egypt?

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Everybody wants to know where women fit into the new Egypt. After an electrifying revolution, leading to the end of President Hosni Mubarak‘s three decade long dictatorship, the “women question” awaited the country’s first democratically elected leadership. The world watched as Egyptian women, young and old, Christian and Muslim, fought alongside their brothers, slept next to them […]

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Baby Boom: Who Really Wins the Baby Weight Game?

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There used to be a time when you would see pictures of only celebrity moms holding their newborn baby in their arms, while flaunting their new mom thighs in their size 2 skinny jeans, just weeks after having given birth. I want to say this phenomenon of blinking and losing baby weight began with superhuman

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The Best Place To Be a Woman: A Conversation With Monique Villa

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Canada is the best place to be a woman, and India is the worst according to a new poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation. The legal news service launched a global poll of experts this week ranking countries for women in the G20, putting the US, which “polarised opinion due to issues surrounding reproductive rights and affordable healthcare,” in sixth place. Access to healthcare and policies that advocate gender equality

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1971 Rapes: Bangladesh Cannot Hide History

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The post- Liberation War generation of Bangladesh know stories from 1971 all too well. Our families are framed and bound by the history of this war. What Bangladeshi family has not been touched by the passion, famine, murders and blood that gave birth to a new nation as it seceded from Pakistan? Bangladesh was one

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41 Years Later: Women’s Rights in Bangladesh

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This past Monday, the 26th of March, was Bangladesh’s 41st Independence Anniversary. I was so happy that the issue of women’s rights four decades after we separated from Pakistan was featured on “The Stream” on Al-Jazeera. I had worked for months to get this issue on air. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcsknTDJN4M&feature=player_embedded#!q] Bangladesh is often touted as a “development

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Asma al-Assad: To Shop or Not To Shop?

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British newspaper the Guardian recently revealed thousands of personal emails it uncovered between Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma. Amidst the beginnings of civil war brewing in Syria, and the slaughtering of civilians in Homs, one would be forgiven to think that the Assads were busy packing their bags, and boarding the nearest

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A Woman’s Place: Saudi Princes in Row Over Kingdom’s Image

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Saudi women have taken the wheels in recent months literally by defying the country’s notorious driving ban, and figuratively in attempting to advance their rights in the wake of the Arab Spring in the famously “conservative” Kingdom which allows women virtually no rights without male guardianship or representation. In addition to the battles Saudi women

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Reclaiming the Revolution: Women in Cairo Refuse to be Sidelined

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A predawn raid today increased clashes between the military and civilian populations in Egypt, triggering women in Cairo to mobilize around the ongoing violence which in recent days has targeted women. This week horrifying images of just how brutal the military can be towards women went viral. The video showing military police dragging a woman

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Anushay’s Point on Al-Jazeera

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I had my first co-hosting gig today on Al-Jazeera! It was nerve wrecking and exhilarating all at the same time to be on their social media centered show, “The Stream,” discussing the recent Shia protests in Saudi Arabia, India’s ‘Iron Lady’s’ 11 year fast, and a new AIDS game application. If you missed the show, you

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A Meaningless Vote? Saudi Women’s Rights Remain Stagnant

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12REUQi6H4] “What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours,” is how the song goes, and the line could not ring more true for Saudi women. This week we saw Saudi King Abdullah grant women the vote in an effort to not only keep the “Arab Spring” away from his Kingdom, but also to quell

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