3,000 villagers reported killed in South Sudan
MORE THAN 3,000 villagers were massacred in the recent burst of communal violence in South Sudan, local officials have said, with the fledging South Sudanese government, which just won its independence six months ago,…
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Afghan girl tortured after refusing prostitution
KABUL (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband’s family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials said Saturday.
Sahar Gul was in critical condition when she was rescued from a house in northern Baghlan province last week, after her neighbors reported hearing Gul crying and moaning in pain.
According to police in Baghlan, her in-laws pulled out her nails and hair, and locked her in a dark basement bathroom for about five months, with barely enough food and water to survive.
“She was married seven months ago, and was originally from Badakhshan province. Her in-laws tried to force her into prostitution to earn money,” Rahima Zarifi, head of women’s affairs in Baghlan told Reuters.
Gul is covered in scars and bruises, with one eye still swollen shut six days after her rescue. She is being treated in a government hospital in Kabul, but her recovery could take weeks and she may have to be sent to India, doctors said.
“This is one of the worst cases of violence against Afghan women. The perpetrators must be punished so others learn a lesson,” health minister Suraya Dalil told journalists after visiting Gul Saturday with the women’s affairs minister.
Mohammad Zia, a senior police official in Baghlan who helped rescue the girl, said Gul’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law have been detained, but her husband and father-in-law had escaped.
“We have launched a serious hunt to get her husband and the others involved,” Zia told Reuters via phone from Baghlan.
Despite progress in women’s rights and freedom since the fall of the Taliban 10 years ago, women throughout the country are still at risk of abduction, rape, forced marriage and being traded as commodity.
However it can be hard for women to escape violent situations at home, because of huge social and sometimes legal pressure to stay in marriages.
Running away from an abusive husband or a forced marriage are considered “moral crimes,” for which women are currently imprisoned in Afghanistan.
Some rape victims have also been imprisoned, because sex outside marriage, even when the woman is forced, is considered adultery, another “moral crime.”
this is disgusting.
Astaghfirullah…
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The newly elected Tunisian President refuses a 30,000$ paycheck. He only accepted 2000$ and gave the rest to the poor people of Tunisia.
He also sold 4 presidential palaces that belonged to the Tunisian ex-president to raise funds for the re-building of Tunisia.
I’d like to offer my congratulations to Tunisia, and pray that Allah blesses Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen with similar fates..
I feel very happy when there are still good people left in the world.
BLESS YOU MR. PRESIDENT <3
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It is very difficult, but even where you can not elect a leader, you can elect peace in your life. We witness it in the smallest of villages and in the economic diverse big cities through song, dance and smiles. #electpeace
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(Beirut) – There is an escalating pattern of physical attacks by Egyptian military and police officers against women and male protesters, journalists, and activists in Cairo, some of which are sexual in nature, Human Rights Watch said today. News reports and images of protesters in Cairo being stripped, beaten, and dragged through the street in the past several days are just the latest incidents.
The Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the Interior Ministry should order an immediate halt to these attacks, Human Rights Watch said. The Office of the Public Prosecutor, the civilian judicial authority, should speedily, vigorously, and transparently investigate assaults on demonstrators by military and police officers and by civilians, and prosecute those responsible, to put an end to a climate of impunity for sexual crimes.
“Images of military and police who strip, grope, and beat protesters have horrified the world and brought into sharp focus the sexual brutality Egyptian women face in public life,” said Nadya Khalife, Middle East and North Africa women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The military and civilian authorities need to put a halt to criminal attacks on demonstrators once and for all.”Rape and sexual assault is a way to dehumanize women in any culture. I can only imagine the impact it could have in a culture such as an Islamic community.
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Israeli occupation soldiers stripped, blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinain youth at the Huwara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on December 20, 2011.
Photos by Nasser Ishtayeh, Jaafar Ashtiyeh sourceI’ve seen this before…Abu Ghraib Prison. It is dehumanizing.
These people could have been insurgents or smugglers or threats to the checkpoint but there is no reason to do this level of humiliation in public. They obviously had them under control, they obviously cleared them of weapons if they had them, why all this way?
I don’t believe the Israeli government or the military has a policy to dehumanize Palestinians at checkpoints. It may be, quoting Rumsfield, “bad apples” but the poison that destroys said “apples” has to have an origin. The Israeli government should find the source of this kind of dehumanizing treatment and eliminate it.
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Picture of the Day. Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of women arrived to protest the rule of Field Marshal Tantawi and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces as well as the brutal beating and stripping of a female protester.
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European Member of Parliament Takes Her Baby To Work……
Licia Ronzulli, an MEP from Italy, took her seven-week old daughter Victoria to work at the European parliament this week at Strasbourg.She kept her baby carefully cradled against her in a sling and occasionally leant to kiss her on the forehead. Photographs of Ronzulli cradling her daughter in a sling as she voted on proposals to improve women’s employment rights were broadcast around the world and published in newspapers from the US to Vietnam.A very powerful image. Women’s employment rights are pretty dismal, especially here in the states, especially when it comes to family and maternity leave.
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