Sunday, November 30th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, Bassily, Bicyle, defenders, Free Yara, human rights, Nelly Bassily, Open letter, public space, reclaim, Sallam, women, Women Human Rights Defenders, Yara Sallam
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July 16, 2014 Dear habibty Yara, It’s Nelly Bassily here. Yara, first, I’m sending you lots and lots of solidarity and love from Canada! Habibty, you have to be one of the strongest and most amazing young feminists I have the pleasure and honour to call a friend in Egypt. When I first saw […]
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, defenders, domestic violence, FreeYara, human rights, in solidarity, no protest law, women
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Ways to Start Time: Counting Down with Women Human Rights Defenders in Africa by Alexis Teyie I once thought longing loose: Longing for peace, it’s not criminal. It is not imprecise. It can only be crisp. More brittle than the yellowing pages of an old book, A book we have read and re-read, Whose faded […]
Thursday, June 26th, 2014 |
Tags: Activists, defenders, Egypt, Free Yara, human rights, NAZRA, no protest law, Yara Sallam
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As the African Feminist Forum Working Group we are distressed to hear that nine women human rights defenders were arrested on 21 June 2014 in Cairo after participating in a peaceful protest against the Protest and Public Assembly Law[1]. The nine women are: Yara Sallam, Sanaa Seif, Hanan Mustafa Mohamed, Salwa Mihriz, Samar Ibrahim, Rania […]
