Feminist Attempts
Campaigns
Here, I throw in blog posts about campaigns I’m running, planning, taking part of – online or on the ground.
ALEF Launches Campaign Against Torture in Lebanon
Jun 22nd
ALEF (Act for Human Rights) have put up new billboards in Lebanon Azebak Mesh Raha calling for the elimination of torture in detention centers. Jails, prisons, and other detention centers in Lebanon are notorious for their ill-treatment of detainees. Men and women – especially marginalized communities such as migrant workers, drug users, More >
June 20: Lebanon & Egypt Blog about Sexual Harassment
Jun 18th
Activists in Egypt launched a campaign to blog and tweet about sexual harassment on Monday, June 20. The team behind the Adventures of Salwa joined the campaign as well with a parallel blogging day in Lebanon. Please join this very important cause – you can make a difference by adding your voice More >
Demonstration to Protect Women from Family Violence
May 30th
Photo by @joellehatem - click on it for the full album
Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday at the demonstration to Protect Women from Family Violence!
Check out some of the press coverage today: Al Akhbar, Daily Star, L’Orient le Jour, AsSafir, Al Balad, Al Diyar, Al Moustaqbal, and Al More >
القانون اللبناني للأحوال الشخصية
May 27th
Here are the main characteristics of the new Civil Personal Status Law prepared by Dr. Augarite Younan and Dr. Walid Slaiby and presented to Parliament. It sounds so delicious, makes me want to get married I will write up some critiques of the new proposed law that different activists have More >
Anti-CEDAW Flyer
May 27th
The women’s committee of Dar Al Fatwa in the North of Lebanon have created this flyer bashing CEDAW and claiming that it is an attack on family values and on the psychological and physical particularities of women’s femininity.
If anything, they should be sued for horrible graphic design. Why do they More >
The Fight is Getting Ugly. Show Your Support for Women’s Rights!
May 24th
People, the lobby AGAINST the protection of women from family violence is starting to speak out with strong statements issued this week by many groups and political parties. Check out this story in As-Safir:
حملة من أجل “تكريس قوانين الأحوال الشخصية” الحالية: “قانون مناهضة العنف الأسري” يهمّش الدين والأخلاق
and this one More >
Second Year Commemorating War on Gaza
Dec 26th
Many things you can do this year and resolve to do in 2011:
- You can join the twitter campaigns on December 27 to promote justice for Gaza and remember the atrocities committed by Israel in December – January 2008. The two campaigns are #Gaza2 and #BoycottIsrael.
- Wear Red on Monday, December 27.
- Join and support More >
We’re Trending #Flotilla Today!
May 29th
Friends, it is once again time to use social media to get a message across to the world. A flotilla of boats carrying human rights activists is right now on its way to Gaza via international waters in order to break the Israeli siege and deliver aid to the people. More >
