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Author(s): Line Zouhour

Arab Studies Institute2013

Available online at:

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/10616/whither-the-peaceful-movement-in-syria

Author(s): Lisa Featherston

In: Jacobin, 2019

Touches upon the history of the celebration of the International Women’s Day on March 8 and on the particular significance of striking on this day. It also includes mention of the initiatives that have taken place on 8 March 2019 in many cities around the world.

Available online at:

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/its-international-womens-day-women-around-the-world-are-striking?fbclid=IwAR3XqW71CvqnnQxNiO4YCWrJlifcKgkTyhpx2a3mUxnz-u_v19cWOVZMMFU

Author(s): Lise Rakner

Christian Michelsen Institute, CMI Report, Bergen, Norway, 1992, pp. 6

Examines role of labour in the transition to multi-party democracy in 1991, and concludes that the trade union movement has remained autonomous from the state (despite efforts to incorporate it) and that this is the key reason why the unions led the transition.

Author(s): Liv Tønnessen, and Samia Al-Nagar

In: Health and Human Rights, Vol 21, No 2, 2019, pp. 7-19

This article explains how abortion is understood within Sudan’s Islamist state, where it is politicized through its association with illegal pregnancy. It also the silent disobedience of Sudanese doctors for the purpose of protecting women’s reproductive rights. While abortion is not discussed in the domestic political debate on women’s reproductive and maternal health, and is not on the agenda of the national women’s movement, it has become politicized in the implementation of the law. A number of bureaucratic barriers, in addition to a strong police presence outside maternity wards in public hospitals, make it difficult for unmarried women to access emergency care after complications of an illegal abortion. However, many doctors, honouring the Hippocratic oath, disobey state policy, and refrain from reporting such ‘crimes’ to the police, to protect unmarried and vulnerable women from prosecution.

Available online at:

https://www.hhrjournal.org/2019/10/the-politicization-of-abortion-and-hippocratic-disobedience-in-islamist-sudan/

Author(s): Liz Highleyman

Verso, New York and London, 2002

Available online at:

http://www.black-rose.com/articles-liz/actupwto.html

Author(s): Logan Cochrane, Yasmien Zeid, and Raed Sharif

In: ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 18, No 2, pp. 394-420

According to available data, Egypt has higher than average rates of sexual harassment for the Middle East and North Africa region and many other countries in the Global South. This article explores how one organization, HarassMap, has mapped sexual harassment using crowd-sourced technology, engaged in anti-sexual harassment activities and sought to change social norms to promote an environment of zero tolerance. The authors highlight the evolving activism since 2010, and the lessons learned, within an environment influenced by restrictive political, religious and socio-cultural spheres. This article shows how anti-sexual harassment activities can occur in challenging contexts, using crowdsourcing mapping, when traditional methods are illegal or could lead to violence. The authors draw on these experiences to reflect on more effective forms of support that external actors can provide within restrictive environments.

See also Bernardi, Chiara (2018) ‘HarassMap: The Silent Revolution for Women’s Rights in Egypt’ in Maestri Elena, Annemarie Profanter  (eds.) Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 215-227.

The author analyzes the role played by the independent organization HarassMap, run by Egyptian men and women, with the aim to “put an end to social acceptance of sexual harassment” in the country. HarassMap situates itself at the intersection of activism, digital media and semiotics. It is an interactive map that enables sexual harassment to become visible and “exposed” in a country where bystanders turn a blind eye to instances of harassment and even violence.

Author(s): Lola Okolosie

In: Red Pepper, No Apr/May, 2012, pp. 66ff

Account of first Go Feminist conference designed to link up and inspire activists.

Available online at:

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/go-feminist-feminism-for-all/

Author(s): Lorenzo Pellgrini, and Murat Arsel

In: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, No 106, 2018, pp. 209-218

The authors draw on data on conflicts over oil production in the Ecuadorian Amazon to argue that not all these movements are primarily motivated by environmental concerns. The note the variety of motives involved. These varied motives also affect how these movements influence policy.

Author(s): Loretta Ross

In: Souls, Vol 19, No 3, 2017, pp. 286-599

Reproductive justice activists have used the concept of ‘intersectionality’ to promote one of the most important shifts in reproductive politics. The Combahee River Collective, twelve Black women working within and outside the pro-choice movement in 1994 coined the term “reproductive justice” to “recognize the commonality of our experiences and, from the sharing and growing consciousness, to a politics that will change our lives and inevitably end our oppression.” This paper argues that this concept has linked activists and academics stimulating numerous scholarly articles, new forms of organising by women of colour, and the reorganization of philanthropic foundations. It examines how reproductive justice+e is used as an organising and theoretical framework, and discusses Black patriarchal and feminist theoretical discourses through a reproductive justice lens.