"Women inspired by Arab uprisings; Hope, caution among activists around the world" by Bill Varner, Bloomberg News / March 13, 2011
UNITED NATIONS — Azza Kamel, a women’s rights advocate in Egypt, says the popular uprisings in her country and its neighbors are creating new opportunities for women.
“There was no difference between women who were veiled or not veiled,’’ Kamel said at the United Nations in New York, referring to the protests that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. “The revolution created a land as free for women as for men.’’
Whether the turmoil in the Arab world will yield progress toward full political and economic rights for women is unclear, said Isobel Coleman, author of “Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Woman Are Transforming The Middle East’’ and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Always using women as a weapon to push the globalist agenda.
“It could go either way,’’ Coleman said. “In a country like Egypt, where you have powerful Islamist groups and a very influential mainstream that appeals to Islam, women will have to navigate very carefully. The same is true in Tunisia.’’
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Laws affecting women in Egypt and Tunisia are some of the most progressive in the region, so there is potential for backsliding.
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Dictators are better for women than democracy?
Kamel and other women from the region took part recently in meetings that marked the one-year anniversary of UN Women, the UN agency created to promote women’s rights.
Once more I have agenda-pushing media and its war-promoting humanitarianism.
They asked UN officials to help them solidify gains and seize opportunities to end some of the world’s most repressive laws and practices.
The 2009 UN Arab Human Development Report said women “find themselves in a subservient position within the family and receive little protection from the legal system against violations inflicted by male family members.’’ It cited sexual and psychological abuse, female genital mutilation, forced child marriage and prostitution, and trafficking in women....
But bombing them and their families into oblivion over a lie is just fine?
Washington-based Vital Voices, which identifies and trains women with leadership potential around the world, organized a four-day workshop, sponsored by the US State Department, in Amman, Jordan, last month.
It really is a government mouthpiece of a media here in AmeriKa.
The nongovernmental organization was concerned about potential retaliation against participants and minimized advance publicity.
I'm kind of tired of the Zionist "Muslims will kill their women" propaganda.
“We didn’t want to put the women at risk,’’ said Christine German, the Vital Voices regional program manager.
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Also see: Muslim Men Hate Their Women
Oh, yeah, that's right, I forgot.
I guess all the crying and wailing when their family members are killed fooled me.
