“Religious fundamentalism” has become one of those scary terms that evokes a range of intimidating images in people’s heads. Some imagine it as the threat of anger and violence and destruction, driven by a religion that we don’t understand. When these people happ...
Societal indifference regarding this abuse is unacceptable. Is it with the argument of tolerance or cultural relativism, by cowardice or racism, that little girls of Muslim descent would not be untitled the right to State protection? Regards de femmes denounces the abuse of those with a...
The sociologist Chahla Chafiq questions Islamism from the point of view of the relationship between religion, politics, sex and gender. As soon as a woman gets veiled, she says, this gesture trivializes a sexual sign and symbolizes a femininity subjected to the gaze of man. The conditio...
Dans cet article, Kamel Daoud se demande pourquoi les islamistes sont aussi angoissés par les femmes ? D’où vient cette obsession ? En réfléchissant sur cette question, il trouve qu’on peut dire que le rapport trouble avec les femmes est un produi...
The article is a brief reminder of the extreme attitude of ultra-orthodox judaïsm with respect to the images of women who are not allowed to appear in a newspaper. / Un article qui vaut petit rappel sur l’attitude extrême du judaïsme ultra-ortho...
An Editorial by Valerie Toranian on feminism. Feminism is like the left wing: split into irreconcilable currents and has for some time now been incapable of achieving a synthesis. It disturbs, annoys, and divides. The reason for this is quite simple: it is confiscation by its most active and adve...
This document contains all the proceedings of the 23rd Summer University of the Women’s Assembly and ECVF (Elect on violence against women), which tackled women’s rights under the rise of religious fundamentalism; religious exploitation risks; secularism and w...
The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. OECD Development Centre Policy Insights is a series of policy-oriented occasional papers ...
Muslim women face the same inequalities in employment and physical and verbal violence as other women, but these inequalities are reinforced by factors such as (perceived) religion and / or ethnicity. Nevertheless, few measures are being taken to collect data on this phenomenon and to put an end ...
Despite the repressive climate placed by the regime of Al-Sissi un Egypt, the fever for change, which was evident 5 years ago at Tahrir square, has not disappeared, particularly among young Egyptians women whose number is growing and who are longing for the emancipation. These young women are eq...
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