http://uk.f260.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Search=&Idx=72&YY=77399&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=up&sort=date&pos=0&view=a
Jordanian Journalist Breaks Taboos Campaigning Against Violence
By Milon Nagi, Women's Media Center. Posted June 9, 2007.
Dua Khalil is stoned to death in Iraq for being seen with a man of another religion. A woman is shot dead in Jordan after her photo appears on her brother's friend's cellphone. Muqadas Bibi's throat and those of her young sisters are slit by her stepfather in Pakistan after she leaves her abusive husband. Every year, across religious and national boundaries, around 5,000 women and girls are murdered by family members in so-called honor killings. "There is nothing honorable in these crimes," says Rana Husseini, award-winning Jordanian journalist and author of the forthcoming Murder in the Name of Honor, who has dedicated her career to exposing and fighting such crimes. .............
I wonder if my friend Rami knows about this .
2 comments:
wow I actually worked in the same office with Rana for 2 years! of course she was a senior and I was a junior, but she was such an inspiration.
She invited me to join a team representing Jordanian women in a UN conference in Cairo, with the aim of giving women right to passing citizenship to their children and spouses. Until today, most women in the arab world are treated as half citizens in this sense.
I am not surprised that you know her Rami. You have similar energies and both of you doing great work !
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