nasawiya: a feminist collective » March http://www.nasawiya.org/web Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:21:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 تظاهرة من أجل تحقيق العدالة للنساء http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2011/05/%d8%aa%d8%b8%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%ac%d9%84-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%a1/ http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2011/05/%d8%aa%d8%b8%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%ac%d9%84-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%a1/#comments Sat, 07 May 2011 05:43:48 +0000 farah http://www.nasawiya.org/web/?p=1951 لأن أبسط حقوق الإنسان هو حق العيش والعيش بكرامة، لأن حقوق المرأة هي جزء لا يتجزأ من حقوق الإنسان، لأن العنف الأسري هو أسوأ أنواع العنف الذي يطال النساء ويصل في بعض الحالات الى حد القتل، ... لأن الضرر الناتج عن العنف الأسري الممارس ضد النساء يطال المجتمع بأسره وليس النساء فقط، لأن العنف يطال النساء والفتيات في لبنان في مختلف الفئات الثقافية والطائفية والإجتماعية، لأن الدولة مسؤولة عن حماية جميع مواطنيها من أي إعتداء أحصل ذلك في الأماكن العامة أم الأماكن الخاصة، لأن النساء والفتيات ضحايا العنف الأسري لا يلقين الحماية في القانون اللبناني، ولأن الوقت قد حان لإقرار قانون خاص يحمي النساء من العنف الأسري، لكل الأسباب المذكورة، ولأن المطالبة بتجريم العنف الأسري لا تستهدف الرجل وإنما تستهدف العنف الممارس على المرأة بغض النظر عن جنس المرتكب، ندعوكم/ن رجالاً ونساءً، شباباً وشابات للمطالبة بإقرار مشروع قانون حماية النساء من العنف الأسري، عبر مشاركتنا في التظاهرة التضامنية "من أجل تحقيق العدالة للنساء" متى: يوم الأحد 29 أيار2011 عند الساعة الحادية عشرة صباحاً أين: التجمع أمام وزارة الداخلية في الصنائع والانطلاق نحو ساحة رياض الصلح في وسط بيروت. على أمل مشاركتكم/ن! نحو تشريع حماية النساء من العنف الأسري! Check Fb event.
]]> http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2011/05/%d8%aa%d8%b8%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%ac%d9%84-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%a1/feed/ 0 International Women’s Day in Lebanon http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2011/02/international-womens-day-in-lebanon/ http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2011/02/international-womens-day-in-lebanon/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:36:26 +0000 Nadine Moawad http://www.nasawiya.org/web/?p=1681 Happy International Women’s Day!

We will post all IWD events in Lebanon on this page and keep it updated. Please support our events by linking to this page from your blog using these awesome graphics below.

On Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6, we will be going down to the streets to ask thousands of women what kind of challenges they face in Lebanon and what changes they would like to see. We still need volunteers to help us out so if you’re interested, please email n.moawad@gmail.com right away! We will be live tweeting, blogging, and posting photos and videos so follow @nasawiya and our Facebook page to keep up. The locations we will be at are:

  • Hamra
  • Furn el Chebbak
  • Chiah
  • Sassine Square
  • Dawra / Nabaa
  • Bourj Hammoud
  • Tareeq el Jdeedi
  • Haret Hreik
  • Sabra Camp
  • Downtown Beirut
  • Tyre
  • Saida
  • Jounieh
  • Jbeil
  • Zahle
  • Tripoli
  • Saida

On Tuesday, March 8, between 6 and 8 PM, we will be marching in groups from 4 locations in Beirut to the Ain El Mreisse Corniche to Take Back the Night and reclaim our streets from the harassment women face every day. The 4 starting points are:

  • Hamra (Cafe Younes)
  • Sodeco Square
  • Raouche (facing the rocks)
  • Cola roundabout

Join any of these points on Tuesday at 6pm and walk with us! Or meet us directly at Ain El Mreisseh at 7pm. Check out the event on Facebook for updates and join us. Let us be many to make our voices heard! Bring your friends, your mothers, your sisters, everyone.

On Tuesday, March 8, at 830 PM, right after the sit-in, we will join the Israeli Apartheid Week at Issam Fares Hall in AUB. IAW and Nasawiya will be collaborating on that night to host a talk on Struggle, Resistance and Women by Leila Khaled and Hana Ibrahim. The talk is entitled Why We Struggle: Towards a Just Society.

Leila Khaled will speak on “Towards a Truly Liberated Society”
Hana Ibrahim will speak on “Iraq: Women on the Front Lines of Anti-Imperial Resistance”

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]]> http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2011/02/international-womens-day-in-lebanon/feed/ 7 Call for a Feminist Block in the Laïque Pride March http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2010/04/call-for-a-feminist-block-in-the-laique-pride-march/ http://www.nasawiya.org/web/2010/04/call-for-a-feminist-block-in-the-laique-pride-march/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:15:58 +0000 joelle http://www.nasawiya.org/web/?p=447 Secularism has been a critical demand in Lebanon ever since the declaration of independence. Unable to counter the confessional and sectarian loyalties in the years of the civil war, the question of a secular state rises once again to the fore of political life in Lebanon. This question reflects the need of the Lebanese people to be assured that the present years of civil “peace” will not be interrupted.

Taking place on 25 April 2010, the Laïque Pride march represents a sincere initiative by citizens who would like to have a direct relationship with the state, without a mediator in between. Secularism in a country as diverse as Lebanon represents true coexistence, while the current sectarian system represents a crisis.

Women’s interest in a secular state goes in parallel with their struggle for equality, justice and full citizenship. Women’s call for a secular state goes hand in hand with the demands for protection from family and gender-based violence. Secularism allows women to be emancipated from sectarian laws that effect their lives and choices, including marriage, inheritance, and custody among other issues.

We call upon all concerned citizens, women’s rights NGOs, women from all sects and religions, and women of conforming and non-conforming sexualities to march with us in the Nasawiya feminist block, as we demand a secular state in Lebanon.

For more information on how to join us, contact us on 01-447 192 or write to farah[at]nasawiya.org.

For more information on Laïque Pride, see the event’s Facebook Page.

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On this year’s International Women’s Day, over 100 people answered Nasawiya’s call to take to the streets to take back the night. For roughly two hours, feminists made their way from Mar Mikhael, Gemayze to Ain el Mraiseh, marching past bedazzled onlookers, curious drivers who ground to a halt, and wary police cars and officers who trailed the march. They were chanting:

- For freedom, for nationality, a feminist revolution.
- One word, shout out loud, feminism won’t die.
- Feminists against sectarianism, racism, sexism, classism, capitalism, Zionism, rape, harassment, patriarchy.
- For Lebanese women in Tripoli, in Byblos, in Saida, in Tyr, in Beirut… a feminist revolution.
- For Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Filipino, Sri Lankan women and women of all nationalities, a feminist revolution.

Our words won’t do the event justice. So we thought we’d let these images do the talking instead.

The revolution continues…

Video: Nasawiya International Women’s Day March – 2010

For more videos, check out our YouTube Channel.

Photo Gallery: Nasawiya International Women’s Day March – 2010

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For more photos, go to our Facebook Fan Page.

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