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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Adjudicated as a crime against humanity at the end of the twentieth century, rape as a weapon of war, and especially genocide, no longer slips under the radar of international attention. This study argues that the Yazidi women’s brave decision to speak out may help break the millennial silence of rape...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 July 2024
... 1999 ; Walzer 1977 ). Although they might seem to be “peaceful” and silent remedies, they are violent and unethical and represent a crime against humanity. They affect large sectors of society, in particular the poor, children, women, and the least politicized. In this context, it becomes difficult...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
... are mostly perpetrated against trans women. Despite the terrible nature of the crimes in these novels and their resonance with the tragic reality of trans lives in Turkey, the series also delights with humor, sex positivity, and overall pluck. This essay seeks to explore this paradox. Through a consideration...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 80–93.
Published: 01 March 2009
... not criminalize domestic violence or
violence against women or children, but it does specify crimes of physi-
cal assault, molestation, defamation, insult, and exposing children to
danger, and it specifi es penalties for felonies or misdemeanors involving
any of these crimes.
In Qatar...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 402–408.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and Hijab as a Human Right .” In Arabs at Home and in the World: Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Identity , edited by McCanders Karla , 3 – 24 . New York : Routledge . Cainkar Louise . 2019b . “ Islamophobia, White Supremacy, and Hate Crimes in the US .” In The Routledge...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... “honor
crimes” and other forms of cultural violence against women associated
with the Muslim world.
PALESTINE: OTHER VIOLENCES AND INESCAPABLE POLITICS
Th is takes us to the next case and space of rights work: Palestine. One of
the most recent “global” projects orchestrated in the name...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 457–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
... international studies and policy, yielding a manuscript in which he employs a liberal rights-based framework to explore the various facets of LGBTI rights in Turkey including the overview of the current legal status of LGBTI people in the country, history of human rights abuses, and how nongovernmental...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 483–485.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to the presidency was the culmination of a fearmongering rhetoric that pitted disenfranchised white Americans against minorities and immigrants of numerous ethnicities or faiths (Mexicans, Arabs, South Asians, and Muslims). It portrayed a dismal picture of a vulnerable America in crisis—one whose borders...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
... by a deep-seated anxiety about the
threat of drastic culture-driven changes to social and gender identities
than by a reality of crime. In her typology of female crime, the largest
category is constituted by a‘māl-i munāfi -yi ‘iff at, acts against chastity,
approximately seventy-fi ve percent of which...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 315–317.
Published: 01 July 2017
... flexible human realm. Azam describes how preexisting notions of sexual transgression were bent to serve the theocentric morality being formulated in the early Islamic period. Sexual transgression is one of four crimes— zina (illicit intercourse), brigandry, fornication, and slander—for which the Quran...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... femicide , defines it as “the killing of females by males because they are female.” Marcela Lagarde y de los Rios ( 2010 : xxiii), who translated the term into Spanish as feminicidio and reconceptualized it, defines it as an umbrella term that covers multiple crimes against women and that is a “state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
... David L. , and Clay K. Chad. 2014 . The CIRI Human Rights Dataset . Version 2014.04.14. www.humanrightsdata.com . Clark Janine . 2003 . “ ‘Honor Crimes’ and the International Spotlight on Jordan .” Middle East Report 33 , no. 4 : 38 – 41 . Cooley Alexander . 2009...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
...,” or the general invisibility of lesbian or bisexual women in Iraqi society (Human Rights Watch 2009 , 42–43; see also International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission 2014a , 5). The 2009 Islamist campaign against Iraqi boys and men targeted as gay was largely ignored by the government and Iraqi media...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 301–310.
Published: 01 July 2022
... against these crimes and the organizers’ success in mobilizing survivors for legal action and getting public opinion invested in the case. At the same time, the NCW provided free legal services to the survivors of sexual violence and assisted with filing legal complaints. In the Fairmont case, however...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2012
... by massive vio-
lence and human rights violations against various ethnic, religious, and
regional groups. Today, Kurdish survivors of the poison gas attacks and
JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 2012) © 2012...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 120–122.
Published: 01 July 2011
... this question, one must turn to the Qur’an
as some of its verses appropriate lashing as the punishment for certain
crimes. In other words, Shirazi cites the Qur’an and ignores the Hadith
when arguing in defense of lesbians and does just the opposite when
arguing against lashing. However, the selection...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 98–112.
Published: 01 November 2011
... NOT!
People do not choose to identify with a criminal identity. Declaring a
sexual preference that does not conform to imposed norms is an act of
defiance against existing structures of oppression. We criminalize our-
selves and reject the crime at the same time. This brings about a dual
nature...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 6–35.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., roles in stopping the
phenomenon of human trafficking, economic reform and international
debt forgiveness are among the most potentially effective, long-term,
comprehensive measures that can be taken against trafficking. Currently,
“the debt of many poor countries has caused them to undergo...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 March 2012
...
with Morocco’s 1956 independence from France and ended with the
establishment of the 1999 Indemnity Commission, the earlier attempt
to redress forty-three years of the regime’s war against its own citizens.
Although the competence of the 2004 ERC was non-judicial, it repre-
sented dominant human rights...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 294–303.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the Association in the Fight against AIDS, Marrakech In Morocco legal codes and dominant discourses conflate single mothers ( om ʾazbaʾ ) with prostitutes , creating a web of discrimination and marginalization for never-married women who are pregnant or have given birth. 1 In contrast, single fathers...
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