Feb 21 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015 | 9:00am – 5:00pm Dave Fields Auditorium CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square Long Island City, NY 11101 This Symposium offers a unique and timely opportunity to engage with locally-based Iraqi and Syrian women activists working across sectarian lines, as well as international experts to address the crisis of women’s …
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Feb 21 2015
EVENT: Women Confronting ISIS: Local Strategies & States’ Responsibilities Engage with locally-based Iraqi and Syrian women activists and international experts addressing the crisis of women’s human rights under the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Friday, March 6, 2015 | 9:00am – 5:00pm (FREE Entry) CUNY School of Law | 2 Court Square …
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Feb 18 2015
In a PBS NewsHour video report in June, Isis extremist militants parade through Mosul, Iraq, one of the first cities to fall to their onslaught in early June. The armed men are hanging off the back of trucks, as the crowd films them. One fighter leans out a car window, wagging his finger. The footage …
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Feb 18 2015
Noor (not her real name), a 14-year-old girl from a small village in northern Iraq, was sold 15 times, passed from one Islamic State (Isis) fighter to the next. Each time, she was raped. Noor managed to escape and made her way, mostly on foot, to a refugee camp. There, she met Yanar Mohammed, an …
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Feb 05 2015
Women are the greatest victims of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the extent of the violence being inflicted upon them can no longer be ignored, an international panel of human rights campaigners has said. In a debate about jihadis, campaigners at the World Woman Festival in Oslo said that in countries such as Iraq, …
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