Femisphera - stejné ženy, jiný svět...

Saúdi Arabia, 31. 7. 2008

Silvie Burjanková

Do you plan to meet or flirt with a woman, while walking your dog in the park of Rijad? Forget it! Instead of pleasant meeting, you might end up behind the bars. Local religious police attempts to keep men and women apart as far as possible. Single men used to pick up with women while walking their pets.

Bahrain, 25.7. 2008

Silvie Burjanková

Saying or writing a sentence "I am repudiating you" for three times, enables Muslim men valid divorce with their wives. Women certainly protest against it and attempt for better rights. Press agency DPA informed referring to Gulf Daily News, published in Bahrainean capital Manáma. Divorces through sms messages became very popular predominantly in the countries near-by the Persian Gulf. However some cases already reach its extremes. Human rights defenders started to look for a way, how to fight against such policies. Despite the fact that Muslim men can divorce through the above mentioned sentence, women, in case of the same decision, need a courts verdict. Nonetheless, they can wait for it even for several years.

Abuja, 17.8. 2008

Silvie Burjanková

"Do not take me as an example" advises 84 year old to Nigerian Muhammad Ballu Abubakar to other men. Former teacher and Muslim preacher has to 86 official wives and is a father of more than 170 children, BBC informed. The man claims, that women searched for him due to his medicinal abilities. Abubakar perceived marriage with them as a sign from God. However the abnormal amount of his wedding ceremonies irritates Islamic authorities in Nigeria. They compare his family to a sect.

Iraq 25.8. 2008

Silvie Burjanková

A 13-year-old Iraqi girl wearing a vest packed with explosives turned herself in rather than go through with a suicide bombing in a violence-torn city north of Baghdad, the U.S. military informed. Girl surrendered to police on Sunday in Baquba. She was still wearing the vest, which police had to remove before detaining her. It has still not been clear, whether she was forced to put on the vest or if she did it voluntarily. The amount of women commiting suicide bomb attacks in Iraq has been lately increasing. Female suicide bombers attacked Shi'ite pilgrims during two annual rites in July, killing dozens of people. Al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants favour female bombers because they can escape detection by police reluctant to search women.

Saudi Arabia, 25.8. 2008

Silvie Burjanková

A mother asked the court in Saudi Arabia to divorce her 8-year old daughter. Her husband wedded her without wife´s knowledge to a 50-year old man. The case will be solved at the court in province of Kasim, where the wedding contract had been signed. 8-year old wife has not known about her marriage so far.

Somalia, 25.8. 2008

Silvie Burjanková

After two days the somalian authorities finally managed to indentify the two missing journalists in their country. It is an Australian reporter Nigel Brenan with his Canadian colleague Amanda Lindhaut. Somalia's National Union of Journalists said they had been abducted along with a Somali reporter and their driver.

Islamabad, 3.9. 2008

Silvie Burjanková

Wounding and subsequent burial of women is a rightful act. That is, what was claimed by Israr Ullah Zehrí. The reason for such a cruel punishment was a disobedience of women, who decided to choose a husband by themselves. Human Rights Watch Organization informed, that women were still breathing, when they were squandering mold and stones on their bodies.

4.9. 2008, Nigeria

Silvie Burjanková

People living with HIV virus are still more often getting married predominantly in northern Nigeria. Local Authorities support such decisions very much and some couples even force to get married. Main aim is reducing spread of the illness in the region. International experts, studying the virus for many years, are strictly against such marriages and do not agree with the officials.

More women, than men will rule in Rwandan parliament, as the preliminary election results show. Women have taken 44 out of 80 seats. Local post-genocide constitution ensures a 30% quota for female MPs, however current results broke the record. It is the second parliamentary elections since the genocide of 1994 when some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu militias in just 100 days.

27.10. 2008, Somalia

Silvie Burjanková

A woman in Somalia has been stoned to death after an Islamic Sharia law court found her guilty of adultery. The woman was buried up to her neck and then she was dying under the fire of stones in front of a large crowd in Kismayo. It was the first such execution in the southern port city since Islamist insurgents violently took control over the city in August. A local Islamist leader Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow said that he repeatedly asked the woman to review her confession, but she stressed she wanted to be punished according to Sharia law and deserved such punishment.

Kabul, 15. 4. 2009

Silvie Burjanková

Three hundred Afghan women protested in front of Shia mosque against a new law, which imposes them to be open to sexual intercourse to their husbands at least every fourth day. Women demonstrated on Wednesday in the Afghan capital Kabul. The human rights organizations called the new law a legalizing of rape in marriage. British newspaper The Guardian informed about the loud protests.

Uganda 11.12. 2009

Silvie Burjanková

Ugandan officials passed a law prohibiting female circumcision. Those, who break the law, will face up to ten year imprisonment. However they can also be convicted to death penalty, if the victim dies during the operation.