04/03/2012
By Shahira Amin
Cairo – The women of Egypt were at the vanguard in the eighteen day January 2011 mass uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. But since then, they have been sidelined and pushed back into the shadows.
*Photo credit: Mariam Soliman | Wikimedia Commons
As they struggle for greater equality, women are becoming increasingly concerned that the gains they’ve made in recent years may be reversed. This, as a rising tide of Islamism and a ruthless military regime threaten to silence their voices and undermine their rights.
Islamists took a commanding lead in recent parliamentary elections winning more than 70% of the seats—a worrying prospect for women seeking gender equality. For despite their promises to support the revolutionary goals of freedom, democracy and justice and to press for a secular agenda, the Islamists are calling for the implementation of Sharia Law.
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04/03/2012
Beirut – Bahrain has routinely convicted hundreds of opposition activists and others of politically motivated charges in unfair trials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report. The government should void the convictions in trials before Bahrain’s military and civilian courts that fell far short of international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said.
The 94-page report “No Justice in Bahrain: Unfair Trials in Military and Civilian Courts” documents serious due process violations in high-profile trials before Bahrain’s special military courts in 2011 – including one trial of 21 prominent political activists and another of 20 doctors and other medical personnel – and in politically motivated trials before ordinary criminal courts since 2010.
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04/03/2012
Analysis by Julio Godoy – IDN-InDepth News* – Paris – If you ask the French ministry for foreign affairs about the country’s position on a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, the spokesperson will surely refer you to the statements by the French ambassadors before the UN both in New York and Geneva, and will repeat that France supports the global application of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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Indeed, France has since the mid 1990s officially supported the objectives of the resolutions adopted by the Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT, in particular those referring to the creation of a nuclear-weapons free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East, and openly calls for the implementation of the conference’s specific resolution of 1995.
But when it comes down to the facts, this apparently solid French position turns out to be a mere lip service to the cause of a NWFZ in the Middle East, in particular if the project questions Israel’s nuclear weapons policy, and asks the Jewish state to subscribe to the mentioned resolution.
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