Sedition, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Identity in South Asia
Special issue of South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ) focused on how laws against sedition and free speech are increasingly being used to silence activists, journalists, etc.
Edited by Svati P. Shah
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.4925">https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.4925</a>
Association pour la Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud (Loi 1901), based at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
2019
English
Harmful Traditional Practices and Implementation of the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan
Widespread harmful traditional practices – child marriage, giving away girls for dispute resolution, forced isolation in the home, exchange marriage and “honour” killings – cause suffering, humiliation and marginalization for millions of Afghan women and girls.
<a href="http://menengage.org/resources/harmful-traditional-practices-implementation-law-elimination-violence-women-afghanistan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://menengage.org/resources/harmful-traditional-practices-implementation-law-elimination-violence-women-afghanistan/</a>
UNAMA
2010
English
Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO)
IKWRO’s mission is to protect Middle Eastern and Afghan women and girls who are at risk of ‘honour’ based violence, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation and domestic violence and to promote their rights.
<a href="http://ikwro.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://ikwro.org.uk/</a>
IKWRO
2018
English
The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan
Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggles over gender violence in local and global power configurations.
Wimpelmann, Torunn.
<a href="https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.32/" title="https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.32/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.32/</a>
University of California Press.
2017
This book distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Copyright is retained by the author(s).
Open access e-book, downloadable PDF
English
https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.32
Women for Afghan Women (WAW)
A grassroots, human rights organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York, particularly their rights to develop their individual potential, to self-determination, and to be represented in all areas of life: political, social, cultural and economic.
Women for Afghan Women
<a href="http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/" title="http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/</a>
Women for Afghan Women
English
Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation (WELDD)
To support women’s empowerment and to boost capacity to challenge inequality worldwide by nurturing women’s leadership. Working with women’s rights activists across the Global South, our goal is to create transformative and sustainable feminist leadership in countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia including Pakistan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Tunisia.
Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation (WELDD)
<a href="http://www.weldd.org/" title="http://www.weldd.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.weldd.org/</a>
Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation (WELDD)
English, Bahasa Indonesia, French, Arabic
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
The oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
<a href="http://www.rawa.org/index.php" title="http://www.rawa.org/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.rawa.org/index.php</a>
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
1997-2017
English, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese