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“They are experiencing multiple levels of trauma,” says the medical chief of this special quota project. “There is the individual trauma, of course. And the collective trauma; because the genocide was directed at their entire community.”
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It’s re-launching May 29 in Iran. After being shut down by hardliners in 2008 the revival of this 16-year-old feminist publication is an event to celebrate as a defining moment for the resurgence of women’s rights in the post-Ahmadinejad era.
In Jordan, critics are finding shortfalls in the local press coverage of a March “honor” killing. To fill the void in reporting, one advocacy group, No Honor in Crime, publishes profiles of the victims to humanize them in ways local press reports do not.
The group of 100 female leaders from 14 countries met in Jordan in late October and plans to reconvene in early 2014. They are focused on engaging with women’s post-conflict rights and powers under a series of U.N. resolutions.
Women’s groups in the region have embedded their desire for certain rights within larger calls for social justice, says Maryam Jamshidi in this excerpt from “The Future of the Arab Spring.” She cites examples in Yemen and Egypt.
A social media campaign started in reaction to a judge’s decision to punish some criminals by dressing them in women’s traditional Kurdish clothing.
Global efforts to improve maternal health are ready for fine tuning when it comes to the Middle East and North Africa. This will be the aim of researchers gathering ahead of this month’s global conference on women’s health in Kuala Lumpur.
From artificial hymens to restoration surgeries, various methods have popped up to underscore the significance placed on female virginity in the country–and Arab world– says Shereen El Feki in this excerpt from “Sex and the Citadel.”
As the Middle East reconfigures politically, post Arab Spring, women are fighting for their rights, but not at the expense of their faith, says Isobel Coleman in the new preface of her book “Paradise Beneath Her Feet.”
Athletes from the Middle East are staying positive despite recent losses, and a controversy has erupted over hair-raising tweets concerning a U.S. gold-medal-winning Olympian. Catch up on part two of the news so far on women at the 2012 games in London.