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Bangladesh: Women Commit Suicide to Escape Sexual Harassment | Violence is not our Culture - 0 views

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  • sambofoster on 24 Feb 16
     
    Sexual harassment against women in Bangladesh is turning deadly. According to local human rights groups 28 women committed suicide this year to escape frequent sexual harassment. Before killing themselves most of them wrote a note demanding an end to the sexual harassment known locally as 'eve teasing' where boys intercept girls on the street, and shout obscenities, laugh at them, pull or touch them or worse.
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Egypt Targets Journalists In Crackdown On Muslim Brotherhood : NPR - 1 views

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  • Last week, the government designated the brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
  • Egypt's top prosecutor has ordered a 15-day detention for several journalists on suspicion of joining the brotherhood,
  • Egypt to be one of the top jailers of journalists
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  • Egypt now brands it a terrorist organization and announces new steps in a crackdown almost daily.
  • nd Morsi took a style, attitude toward the press and towards the station, and publicly accuse them of inciting violence which started the divide in the Egyptian media and also a divide between those who support the army and those who support the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi
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      kristaf on 22 Sep 14
       
      Having to choose a side. You are either with the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi or you support the Army.
  • Al-Jazeera
  • Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit that promotes the freedom of the press around the world.
  • funded by the Qatari government who was close to the former President Mohamed Morsi administration,
  • 10 journalists have died in Egypt since 1992, six of them died last year in 2013.
  • hostility towards the press.
  • Syria remains the most dangerous environment for journalists. Last year in 2013, there were 29 killed. I
  • Turkey and Iran remain the top two jailers of journalists around the world, which makes the Middle East a very hostile environment for freedom of the press overall.
  • kristaf on 22 Sep 14
     
    The article mentions the imprisonment of journalist in Egypt, who were believed to be members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt was identified as "one of the top jailers of journalists"  according to the Committee to Project Journalists. Along with Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Iran are also among the most dangerous places for journalists.
  • kristaf on 22 Sep 14
     
    The article mentions the imprisonment of journalist in Egypt, who were believed to be members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt was identified as "one of the top jailers of journalists"  according to the Committee to Project Journalists. Along with Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Iran are also among the most dangerous places for journalists. 
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Control and crucifixions: Life in Libya under IS - BBC News - 0 views

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  • segregation
  • ress codes
  • establishment of a religious police
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  • from Tunisia, Iraq or Syria.
  • of retributions. We spoke to people who have been forced to leave the city, to escape Islamic State.
  • I blame regional countries for IS
  • My dad is a senior policeman and was getting threats in Sirte. Anyone who works with the police can be kidnapped or killed unless you join them
  • S was quite laid back at the start in terms of implementing their harsh interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. You get the feeling that they were focussing on building loyalty and allegiances from the tribal society of Sirte
  • It was only in August when Islamic codes of dress and behaviour began to be implemented more noticeably. It was also then when crucifixions and lashings began to be meted out to anyone convicted. These usually take place after Friday prayers.
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Women's rights in post-revolution Egypt - Asfar - 0 views

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  • Unprecedented state violence against women between the time of the revolution (2011) and the election of a new government (2012) contravened international law, and violated the spirit of the revolution.
  • Egypt’s first democratically-elected, post-revolution government overwhelmingly failed to recognise crucial women’s issues such as marital rape and human trafficking and contributed to the culture of sexual harassment; one of the most pressing problems for Egyptian women today.
  • aromo0 on 17 Feb 16
     
    This article talks about the details of the women's rights movement since 1952. After the revolution in 2011, women's rights has yet to become a topic of importance. 
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POLL-Egypt is worst Arab state for women, Comoros best - 0 views

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  • sambofoster on 10 Feb 16
     
    Egypt worst for women's rights in poll of 22 Arab states Iraq more dangerous for women than under Saddam Hussein Small steps in Saudi Arabia but women still second class Syria's war and discriminatory laws curtail women's rights Comoros first for giving women political and economic rights LONDON, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday.
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Revolution in Egypt: 18 Days that Shook the World - Photo Essays - 0 views

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  • jherna2a on 10 Feb 16
     
    This article outlines eighteen important days of the Egyptian Revolution. It starts with the 25th of January, 2011 when Egyptians, inspired by Tunisia's own revolution, protested in downtown Cairo.
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Nato commander: Isis 'spreading like cancer' among refugees | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • mwrightc on 02 Mar 16
     
    US general Philip Breedlove is worried that the Syrian Refugees who are being dispersed throughout Europe and to the United States are causing the terror group of ISIS to "spread like cancer". He blames the Russian bombing in the name of Assad for causing this because civilians are forced to leave their land and are further pushed toward no other choice but joining ISIS.
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Israel Polarized Over Soldier Who Killed Wounded Palestinian - 0 views

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  • mkulach on 31 Mar 16
     
    An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian who was wounded on the ground, which has stirred some commotion among the public. Many people have been expressing their outrage to this happening. Not too long ago another Israeli soldier killed two other Palestinians that were carrying knifes. The violence in this are is never ending.
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The conviction of Radovan Karadzic has lessons for Syria's war | Middle East Eye - 0 views

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  • Thursday saw the closure of a long and drawn out story for the victims of Bosnia’s bloody civil war as the guilty verdict was finally delivered in the trial of Radovan Karadzic.
  • of a 40-year jail sentence for Karadzic for genocide and war crimes.
  • Memory and justice are two themes
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  • So much of the strife afflicting Europe and the Middle East today has its roots in the Bosnian conflict, yet scant attention has been paid to the country in the years following the war.
  • Up to 100,000 people were killed in the Bosnia conflict between 1992 and 1995 when, following a referendum to secede from Yugoslavia, the country was plunged into an inter-ethnic war between Serbs, Croats and Muslims (or Bosniaks).
  • Karadzic and his Serb forces have long been considered the worst perpetrators of the violence - which nevertheless saw atrocities on all sides - and culminated in the brutal Srebrenica massacre in which over 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in 1995 in full view of the UN peacekeeping forces. 
  • n forging notions of global Muslim solidarity and identity which has played such a major role in the conflicts of the Middle East.
  • Much as in Syria today, hundreds - potentially thousands - of foreigners travelled to Bosnia to join the mujahideen and protect Bosnian Muslims from the Bosnian Serb forces
  • It's hard not to draw parallels between such language and the language of anti-Muslim demagogues in Europe, India, Myanmar and America today.
  • When the dust settles in Syria, and should the war criminals survive long enough to be put on trial, the long-term work of reconstruction and reconciliation will begin
  • mcooka on 28 Mar 16
     
    This article looks at the trial of the Bosnia war criminal. He was persecuted and given 40 years in prison after 20 years of being chased and waiting for trial. The Bosnia war has roots of strife which still exist in the Middle East today. 
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Will Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood return to political violence? - BBC News - 0 views

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  • cguybar on 05 Apr 16
     
    Ties the brotherhood to various activities in the middle east that dealt primarily with rebellion against the current regime. Implies that going against the government is an ideal of the brotherhood (with little to no discrimination on those in charge of the regimes).
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