Women's Fightback no.5, February 2008
Stop stoning women to death!
Submitted on 24 February, 2008 - 20:30
Zohreh and Azar Kabiri are sisters and mothers. They were arrested on 5 February, 2007 following allegations of adultery by Zohreh’s husband.
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Women's Fightback Briefing: sex trafficking
Submitted on 24 February, 2008 - 20:25
Trafficking, in contrast to “voluntary” migration, is defined as non-consensual migration geared towards exploitation of migrants’ labour whether in sex or other industries. NGOs’ and states’ interventions on this issue have taken place along two lines: establishing protective schemes for victims of trafficking and the tightening of borders and visa regimes.
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Womens Fightback: Campaigns and activism
Submitted on 24 February, 2008 - 20:19
Southall Black Sisters face closure
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Sofie Buckland for NUS Women’s Officer!
Submitted on 24 February, 2008 - 20:13
It’s time to challenge Labour Students for control of the NUS women’s campaign. For Sofie’s manifesto, supporters’ list and more on the campaign, see the ENS Women website — socialistfeminist.org.uk
Since the takeover of the NUS Women’s Campaign by Labour Students four years ago, the potential for student women’s organising to lead an active, political regeneration of the women’s movement has been squandered.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Submitted on 24 February, 2008 - 20:11
“One is not born, but rather beomes a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the female figure plays in society; it is civilisation as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.”
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