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Saida's blog
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YWLI’s debut blog, Femzone is meant to provoke, challenge and inspire. It is intended to provide analysis in ways that bring out our strength and flexibility, diversity and adaptability as feminists without compromising our core values. Hosted by the YWLI Executive Director, Saida Ali, Femzone will not only inform, transform and inspire you but also entertain you through analysis of films, books and music that point to contemporary issues affecting our society. Femzone intends to step where angels fear to tread.
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In my musings and crafting of citizenship rights for women in Kenya, I am reminded that the 'personal is political'. This feminist principle that came into being in the 1960s and 1970s has once again come alive in the current Kenyan consitutional debate and specifically on the issue of citizenship. A few days ago, I visited the Immigration Department at Nyayo house to renew my passport. One of my brothers happened to be applying for his passport at the same time.
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It is puzzling how the people who are loudest on why abortion should not be allowed in this country are men - pastors, priests, male politicians and men in the streets who have no clue what it means to be a woman and to be pregnant. People who do not have a uterus! The abortion debate in Kenya is happening at a time when women all over the world, State and non-State actors are taking stock of 15 years after the United Nations Women's Conference in Beijing.
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Courtesy The New York Times.
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Lesbians have always been present in various civil society movements, with gay men’s organizations, in feminist groups, as well as in the artistic sphere and in the fight for decolonization and independence of their country. In recent decades lesbians have been present in the fight for equal rights for women of colour, aborigen women, and more broadly with feminist movements.
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I am a human rights defender and I believe that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated with dignity. I also believe that as a human rights worker, I do not choose what rights to defend and what not to give attention to.
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GLOBAL: Male circumcision does not protect women
JOHANNESBURG, 17 July (IRIN) - New research suggests that circumcising HIV-positive men does not reduce the risk of their female partners becoming HIV-infected.
The findings, reported on 17 July in the British medical journal, The Lancet, emerged from a clinical trial in Rakai District, southern Uganda, involving 922 HIV-infected men and 163 of their HIV-negative female partners.
