Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, belong, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, Hanan Mustafa Mohamed, Nahid Bebo, Neely, no protest law, Rania El-Sheikh, Sallam, Salwa Mihriz, Samar Ibrahim, Seif, Sionne, sun, thousands
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by Sionne Neely “We’ve said it before: We don’t like prisons, but we are not afraid of them. There are thousands of innocent people who belong under the sun, not in prison cells, but we will continue with our attempts under any and all circumstances.” ~ Mahienour Elmasry To women rights defenders Yara Sallam, Sanaa […]
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, Egypt, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, in solidarity, Irom, no protest law, Sallam, Satchidanandan, Seif, Sharmila, Sherman, Zandi
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More than a year ago I heard one of India’s most powerful activist poets, K Satchidanandan, recite a poem he had written for Indian activist Irom Sharmila. Sharmila has been on hunger strike for the last fourteen years in protest against the brutal Armed Forces Special Powers Laws. Similar to you -and others like you, in Palestine, […]
Friday, December 5th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Egypt, Emam, Fatma, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, freedom, in solidarity, NAZRA, no protest law, our, right, Sallam, Yara
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by Fatma Emam In my country, we are witnessing the backlash of an incomplete revolution. We are suffering at the hands of a military junta and the Islamists who stole our dreams. In spite of this, we go on in the heat of solidarity and the power of our passion. I want to confess […]
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, choice, dress, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, letter, my, Njoki, Sallam, Sanaa, Seif, sexual violence, Wamai, Yara
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Monday, 17th November 2014 Cambridge You were there in Kampala Dear Yara My name is Njoki Wamai, an African feminist from Kenya and a scholar activist who is currently a student at the University of Cambridge. I first heard about you in Kampala at the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) sponsored non-fiction writer’s workshop which […]
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 […]
