Archive for the ‘Patriarchy’ Category

Womens Learning Partnership: for Rights, Development and Peace

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I've been meaning to write about this wonderful network - the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) - before but have been procrastinating. No time like the present: In a nutshell, they're about female empowerment as part of human equality, and positive thinking : they're a network of networks - they work with ...

On troubling Hadiths

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

A few thoughts on hadiths and religion in general: I had a difficult relationship with religion while I was growing up. As a child, I used to be a voracious reader and stumbled upon lots of things, including the Hadith collection my parents had. Now there was one particular Hadith that ...

Bangladesh and Citizenship: Discrimination against women

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

More nation-state woes. Right: so discrimination against women is rampant in Bangladesh, as in other parts of the world. But I was really shocked when i found out recently about some pretty fundamental discrimination: citizenship laws and how they affect women. That seems to me rather critical. Okay so ...