Archive for women’s rights
[cover] زن زندگی آزادی
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags compulsory veiling laws, cover, Farsi, Iran, Libé, religious freedom, theocracy, UNiTE to End Violence against Women, women's rights on September 26, 2022 by xi'an
back behind bars
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Afghanistan, burqa, fundamentalism, gender apartheid, Human Rights, obscurantism, taliban, women's rights, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality on May 9, 2022 by xi'an
Merci, Simone! [in Strasbourg]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags EU, European Parliament, exhibit, legalisation of abortion, picture exhibit, reproductive rights, Rouen, Simone Veil, Strasbourg, women's rights on January 6, 2018 by xi'an
I posted this picture on the ‘Og last June, when I went to Rouen. At the time Simone Veil had just passed away and I wanted to recall her single-handed fight for making abortion legal in France… I received last week an email I first took for a spam, email from a curator of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg (where Simone Veil was for a while a European deputy and its President, its first female President), preparing a permanent exhibit in her memory and wishing to use my picture in the exhibit, to illustrate another perspective on her, away from official and family photographs. Completely unexpected, but I obviously gave immediately my agreement.
Merci, Simone!
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Auschwitz-Birkenau, EU, European Parliament, legalisation of abortion, reproductive rights, Rouen, Shoah, Simone Veil, women's rights on July 1, 2017 by xi'an
and it only gets worse…
Posted in pictures with tags abortion, Donald Trump, The New York Times, United States of America, Washington D.C., women's rights on January 24, 2017 by xi'an
As Paul Krugman put it in a NYT editorial, from there things can only get worse: one of the first decisions of Donald Trump as President was to ban US foreign aid to health providers abroad who discuss abortion as a family-planning option. As a senseless defiance to the millions of women who had marched across the World the day before. In support of women’s rights everywhere.
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