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Comment on Sudanese women on frontline risking all to call for reform. by Khalid Hammad

Khalid Hammad — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:34:21 +0000

Dear Raid
Thanks for your comments, it is encouraging to find people who care about our problems. I agree with you is that women's right are really human rights, but it is not universal concept. Look at the debate on USA about gay marriage whether it is a human right or not. This proves that the human rights in USA are not yet completely defined and it will be always modified according to local parameters.My self I like the way of loyalty and obedience of Japanese woman to her husband. Should we inforce them of Western values of dry equality of man and women while they found happiness in their system.
Iam talking about why not taking the best of westeren human rights and mix it with the best of our values

Comment on Sudanese women on frontline risking all to call for reform. by Reid Sprague

Reid Sprague — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:30:53 +0000

I'm a Westerner, so I hope my comment is not unwelcome. But I would say that to connect "women's rights" to Western culture seems an indirect way of condemning the concept and avoiding the issue.

Women's rights are really human rights - and that is not a Western concept, but a universal one.

Comment on Sudanese women on frontline risking all to call for reform. by Khalid Hammad

Khalid Hammad — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:54:10 +0000

Dear Reem
you know very well that education and job are now accepted by most of Sudanese families.
As an eastern man when I hear the word "women's rights" , the decadent western soccieties jumps to my head.
Why not we redefine "women's rights" again according to our values, culture and taste, creating a homogenuous harmonized symbole accepted by our socciety. Not the monester rights of Western socciety

Comment on Sudanese women on frontline risking all to call for reform. by Reem Shawkat

Reem Shawkat — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:19:07 +0000

Dear Khalid,

No one said that "women's rights" have one definition. The most important thing is for women to have a choice in everything from access to education to getting a job.

Comment on Sudanese women on frontline risking all to call for reform. by Khalid Hammad

Khalid Hammad — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:04:59 +0000

Dear Reem and Carolyne
What are the woman rights, and by whome it had been defined, and why should I accept definetions of westeren society that are able to destroy my family. Should we accept gay marriage eg. on our society as a right?
There is nothing as absolute freedom in this world. But why not an organized freedom.
Woman right on my point of view is to be safe and feel safe and to be loved by a protective sacrificing loving huspand with mutual loyality and understanding and a happy family democracy.

Comment on Sudanese women on frontline risking all to call for reform. by Reem Shawkat

Reem Shawkat — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:18 +0000

Thanks for your comment Carolyne. I agree with you and I tried to bring light to this issue in my piece. I noticed that not all male activists are for women's rights or they are not priorities to them. As much as our fight is a national struggle for peace, democracy and rights in Sudan, we should always bring up the issues that affect us as women because if we don't, we will be harassed out of the decision-making sphere

Comment on Govt ban on political group raises fear among Ugandans by Uganda women protest topless against Police public groping of female politician | ugandawomenspeakout

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:42:08 +0000

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Comment on Sudanese women on frontline risking all to call for reform. by Carolyne Muyama

Carolyne Muyama — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:32:42 +0000

The issues that concern women in Africa in particular are normally taken lightly. I have been in meetings with male collegeus and as soon as an issue uniquelly concerns women it it treated with contempt and dealt with haphazardly so that they skip to a 'more' important issue. Issues of rape for example have not been taken care of to the core. there are no proper laws against such vices and domestic violence and other kinds of abuses are looked as normal in the African society.

The culture in Africa in my opinion is to a biggest extent a contributory factor to the escalation of such vices as argued somewhere in the piece above. A woman is beaten the previous night and the following morning she wakes up and goes about her business as if nothing happens. In many cases such women will even defend their husbands and try to cover up for them. In most African societies it is not lady like to speak up against certain issues especially violence against women.

The governments in Africa and activists have a long way to go in fight violence against women and changing attitude against issues concerning women.

Comment on Youth in Eastern Congo shaking the establishment by saintanthony

saintanthony — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:20:39 +0000

The pedagogy of the oppressed, animated by authentic, humanist (not humanitarian) generosity, presents itself as a pedagogy of humankind. Pedagogy which begins with the egoistic interests of the oppressors (an egoism cloaked in the false generosity of paternalism) and makes of the oppressed the objects of its humanitarianism, itself maintains and embodies oppression. It is an instrument of dehumanization. This is why, as we affirmed earlier, the pedagogy of the oppressed cannot be developed or practiced by the oppressors. It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
- Paulo Friere, PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED

Comment on Youth in Eastern Congo shaking the establishment by Tukam Dixon Kyaba

Tukam Dixon Kyaba — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:48:58 +0000

A movement in the making

Indeed, the self-made concept is working. Before they even staged
their first visible campaign, the movement has already raised sufficient
private funding to continue their activities well into the year. Future
campaigns will deal with education and infrastructure, in the hopes to
mobilize more and more youth, their families, and the community as a
whole.

For now, it’s all about awareness raising. “The authorities are so
used to not listening, to doing nothing – if we can get them to pay
attention, to start holding emergency meetings, that’s already a start.”

Comment on Youth in Eastern Congo shaking the establishment by Dick

Dick — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:30:13 +0000

Way to go Micheline. Courage!!!

Comment on What’s International Women’s Day to a woman in Sudan? by fadumo

fadumo — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:24:34 +0000

why should they treats women in that way?

Comment on Govt ban on political group raises fear among Ugandans by Uganda women protest topless against p « Rosebell's Blog

Uganda women protest topless against p « Rosebell's Blog — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:12:38 +0000

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Comment on What’s International Women’s Day to a woman in Sudan? by ACTUALITE | Pearltrees

ACTUALITE | Pearltrees — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:57:13 +0000

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Lone Mountain Truck Leasing — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:39:04 +0000

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Comment on This is My City Too; Afghan women challenge harassment by What would you do? « Rosebell's Blog

What would you do? « Rosebell's Blog — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:32 +0000

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Comment on Somali Woman Gives Birth While Queuing for Food by Pasadena Nutrition

Pasadena Nutrition — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:48:39 +0000

Oh God,
Well it's a good news that God blessed her with a new born Cute baby. But Food Crisis are the Ridicules thing. Just can Pray for them "GOD PLEASE HELP THOSE HELPLESS PEOPLE"

Comment on Gulnaz: Punished. Rapist: Rewarded! by وبگاه تخصصي خبري و تحليلي نگاه زن » » نه چندان استثنایی و سخت دردناک

وبگاه تخصصي خبري و تحليلي نگاه زن » » نه چندان استثنایی و سخت دردناک — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:49:00 +0000

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نه چندان استثنایی و دردناک « همیشه بی بی مهرو — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:21:33 +0000

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Comment on Fighting Kony with beer, spy planes and YouTube by Jared Purdy

Jared Purdy — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:32:04 +0000

Very informative. I suppose one cold say that it is left tp the reader to make their own conclusions as to just how much is really being done? On the one hand the article states that Lt-Col Golam Faruque says that “If anyone says MONUSCO is not doing enough to protect civilians [from the LRA], they don’t know the reality.”. And on the other hand the story opens up with an almost comical picture of Congolese soldiers relaxing under a mango tree in the noon day sun (I can almost touch that image) drinking frosties with a bunch of empties laying on the ground beside their dusty rifles, with five bulltets. With that senario, I'm left to believe that there is little in the way of a coordinated effort in the region. You would think that the soldeirs would at least have enough bullets to defend the village and themselves.