Becky Blab

I saw a documentary program called ‘Jews’ in the UK last week before coming here. The first of in a three-part series focusing on Jews in Britain gave us a glimpse into the lives of an ultra-orthodox community called the Hasidic. I was struck by some similarities between the way the women are treated in [...]

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Sanjukta has posted about India Together’s innovative project to promote dowry-free weddings through their Say no to dowry pledge drive. They provide free invitations in an electronic catalogue, with the logo you see in the bottom right corner.

She ponders,
I wonder how many people know about it and even if they know will they ever have the good [...]

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Requiem for Benazir Bhutto

 
Women’s Action Forum grieves.
It grieves with Bakhtawar, Bilawal and Asifa,
It grieves with Nusrat and Sanam Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari,
It grieves with all members of the Bhutto family,
It grieves with the PPP and all PPP workers and supporters,
It grieves with the poor and the oppressed, [...]

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Women’s e-news has a piece on Muslim women’s activism in India, particularly surrounding the case of Imrana who had been raped by her father-in-law. The village elders, following Sharia, had ruled that her marriage be dissolved. However, women’s groups such as the All India Muslim Women’s Personal Law Board (see here) took up her cause [...]

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Tuesday was the 20th anniversary of the infamous sati of Roop Kanwar, a recently married, 18 year-old woman who burnt herself alive on her husband’s funeral pyre. This article takes a look into the changes that have come to that village, which now has quite a few female governing officials.

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