Hajer Naili is a New York-based reporter for Women's eNews. She has worked for several radio stations and publications in France and North Africa and specializes in Middle East and North Africa women in Islam.
Male models and others involved with the Hunks4Hope calendar project talk about the need to end domestic violence and help survivors. Footage was taken on March 10, in neighborhoods around New York.
In sideline panel events at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women, talk was of working for further transformation in everything from the Egyptian constitution to the safety of women throughout the uprisings.
If $85 billion in across-the-board automatic federal budget cuts hit on Friday–and stay in place–women across the country will lose jobs, rental assistance, nutritional support, domestic-violence services.
With Senate passage assured ahead of time, focus falls on the 22 all-male GOP lawmakers who voted against passage. From here the bill moves to the real battleground in the House, where GOP ranks are at least somewhat divided.
Belonging to a breakthrough Muslim fashion agency doesn’t require me to display my skin or be a certain size or shape. For many reasons–political as well as personal–that’s a really good fit for me.
A secular Egyptian woman outlines the disappointments written into the country’s new constitution, passed in late December. Women have had only one legal advance since the revolution: prosecuting sex harassment.
Mae Azango has won international acclaim for her work, but faces ongoing criticism and death threats at home for challenging her own culture. If she were a white woman, she says, her work would not have hit such a nerve.
MomsRising began pressing for gun-control regulations the day of the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Mayors and a U.S. senator with an “A” rating from the NRA are also leading the effort.
Two years after the start of the Arab Spring, Hajer Naili interviews three post-revolutionary women about the increasingly radical Islamist forces that are smothering their hopes. “I don’t even know what their aims are,” says one woman.
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