Khalida Jarrar Solidarity Campaign: Free Khalida Jarrar!

UPDATE, April 5, 2:30 pm: Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian leader, parliamentarian and feminist, has been issued a six-month administrative detention order imprisoning her without charge or trial, at the behest of the Israeli military commander in the West Bank, reported Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – Jarrar’s lawyers – on April 5. Mahmoud Hassan, lawyer with Addameer …

Boycott 50 Shades of Grey for ‘glamorizing’ domestic violence, say activists

Online activists have launched a campaign against the controversial release of Fifty Shades of Grey. The movement claims the film glamorizes domestic violence, and urges fans to boycott the cinema release. The campaign, called “50 dollars not 50 shades” encourages people to donate the cost of an evening at the cinema to a charity which …

Join International Front against Religious-Right and for Secularism

The Manifesto for Secularism was adopted at the 11-12 October International Conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights. The Conference called on people everywhere to join the International Front for Secularism and strengthen a human alternative to the religious-Right. YOU CAN ADD YOUR NAME TO THE MANIFESTO HERE and HERE Our era is marked by …

Save 26 year old Rayhaneh Jabbari from being hanged in Iran

Iranian authorities have today confirmed that a woman convicted of killing a man whom she said tried to sexually abuse her will be hanged tomorrow morning at a prison west of Tehran, Amnesty International said. Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced to death in 2009 after a deeply flawed investigation and trial which failed to examine all …