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Be Inspired
BELIEVE IN YOURSEF. CAUSE YOU ARE
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‘NO’. LIVE LIFE to the FULL. BE CREATIVE. LOVE DEEP, KISS LONG, FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS. ENJOY THE COMPANY of PEOPLE. BE ADVENTUROUS. EAT,TRAVEL and DANCE.HAVE PURPOSE in LIFE. SHOP. MAKE MISTAKES. BELIEVE. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. SMILE . HAVE STRENGHT. AIM HIGH. DESIRE the BEST.
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Life in words Love,
aspirations, challenge, men, health, protection, sun, media, holidays, new starts, work, education, light, chaos, city, fertility, identity, fashion, celebrity, traffic, travelling, fears, volume, beauty,
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skin, women,
night, intimacy,
experience, atoms, particles, life, passion,
transform, sensation, pearl, tattoo,
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romanticism, family, world, war, colour,
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diction, purpose, book, perfection, traditional, bride, future, light, music, dance, language, commitment, ceremony, street, shop, eat, live,
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“All over the world women experience sexual violence, displacement, torture, feminicide and kidnap but the needs, realities, experiences and perspectives of women are often excluded from consideration. When women’s voices are not heard, women’s needs are ignored. When women are marginalised and excluded from power, men think it’s okay to say things like ‘women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised.’ We believe that you can’t build peace by leaving half of the people out. No women, no peace.” - Chitra Nagarajan
http://slutmeansspeakup.org.uk/post/11787007339/announcing-slutwalk-london-2012
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Saudi Arabia gives women right to vote Saudi women will have the right to stand for office and vote in future local elections. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has said women will have the right to stand and vote in future local elections and join the advisory Shura council as full members. “Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama [clerics] and others … to involve women in the Shura council as members, starting from the next term,” Abdullah, 87, said in a speech. “Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote,” he added. Liberal activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from travelling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative and are forbidden from driving. The
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ter elections on Thursday, in which women are barred from voting or standing for office. “This is great news,” said Wajeha al-Huwaider, a Saudi writer and women’s rights activist. “Women’s voices will finally be heard. “Now it is time to remove other barriers like not allowing women to drive cars and not being able to function, to live a normal life without male guardians.” The king did not address the issue of women being allowed to drive. Although there is no written law against women driving, they are not issued licences, effectively banning the practice. A campaign this summer by women who broke Saudi law by driving on the kingdom’s city streets prompted some arrests. Women in Saudi Arabia must also have written approval from a male guardian - a father, husband, brother or son - to leave
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er say in politics, but critics point out that the elections are for only half the seats on councils that have few powers. The Shura council, which vets legislation but cannot veto it or enforce changes, is fully appointed by the king. “Despite the issue of the effectiveness of these councils, women’s involvement in them was necessary. Maybe after women join there will be other changes,” said Naila Attar, who organised the Baladi (Arabic for My Country) campaign calling for women’s involvement in the local council elections. “I believe this is a step to involve women in the public sphere. It is the top of the pyramid and a step in the direction for more decisions regarding women.”
Saudi Arabia will hold only its second nationwide elections in recent memory on Thursday for seats on local councils, but critics of the ruling al-Saud family say the poll, in which voting is limited to men, is a charade. Supporters of the absolute monarchy say the elections are designed to give Saudis a greathttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/25/saudi-arabia-women-vote-elections
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ARTICLE 1 ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’ When we are born, we are free and each of us should be treated in the same way. We have reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a friendly manner.
ARTICLE 3 ‘Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person’ We all have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety. ARTICLE 4 ‘No one shall be held in slavery or servitude. Slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms’ Nobody has the right to treat anyone else as his or her slave, and we cannot make anyone our slave.
ARTICLE 6 ‘Everyone everywhere has the right to recognition as a person before the low’ We should all be legally protected in the same way everywhere, and like everyone else. ARTICLE 7 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law’ The law is the same for everyone. It must treat us all fairly. ARTICLE 8 ‘Everyone has the right to an effective remedy if their rights are not respected’ We can all ask for legal help when we are not treated fairly.
ARTICLE 9 ‘No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile’ Nobody has the right to put us in prison without a good reason, to keep us there, or to send us away from our country unjustly. ARTICLE 14 ‘Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy other countries asylum from prosecution’ If someone hurts us, we have the right to go to another country and ask it to protect us.
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Article 15 ‘Everywone has the right to a nationality’ We all have the right to belong to a country and nobody can prevent us, without a good reason, from belonging to another country if we wish. Article 16 ‘Men and women…have the right to marry and to found a family’ As soon as we are legally entitled, we have the right to marry and have a family. Neither the colour of our skin, nor the country we come from nor our religion should be impediments to doing this. Men and women have the same rights when they are married and also when they are separated. The government of our country should protect us and each member of our family.
body has the right to take We all have the right to make these from us without a good up our own minds, think that we want, to say what we like, reason. and nobody should forbid us from doing so. We should be ARTICLE 18 ‘Everyone has the right to able to share our ideas with freedom of thought, con- other people wherever they live, through books, radio, science and religion’ We all have the right to be- television and other ways. lieve in what we want to believe, to have a religion, to ARTICLE 20 ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association’ We all have the right to organize peaceful meetings freely or to take part in meetings in a peaceful way. Nobody can force us to belong to a group if we don’t want to. change it if we want, and to practice it either on our own or with other people.
ARTICLE 19 ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and exArticle 17 ‘Everyone has the right to pression, and to seek, receive and impart information own property’ We all have the right to own through any media and rethings or share them. No- gardless of frontiers’
ARTICLE 21 ‘Everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government’ We all have the right to take part in our country’s political affairs either by belonging to the government ourselves or by freely choosing politicians
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ARTI to represent us. Governments should be voted for regularly and voting should be secret. We should each get a vote and all votes should be equal. We have the same right to join the public service as anyone else. ARTICLE 22 ‘Everyone has the member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization…of…economic, social and cultural rights. The society in which we live should help everyone to everyone to develop and to make the most of all the advantages (culture, work, social, welfare) that are offered to us and to all the men and women in our country. ARTICLE 23 ‘Everyone has the right to work… Everyone has the right to form and join trade unions’ We all have the right to work, to be free to choose our work, and to get a salary that allows us to live and support our family. Everyone, without discrimination, doing the same work has the right for equal pay. Everyone who works has the right to join together to defend his or her interests. ARTICLE 24 ‘Everyone has the right to rest and leisure’ each work day should not be too long, since everyone has the right to rest and should be able to take regular paid holidays. ARTICLE 25 ‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for…health and wellbeing’ We all have the right to enough food, clothing,
housing, and healthcare for our families and ourselves. We should be given help if we are out of work, ill, elderly, disabled, widowed, or cant nor earn a living for any other reason we cannot help. Both a mother who is going to have a baby and her baby should get special help. All children have the same
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Get Involved Join Amnesty International Amnesty International is a movement of ordinary people from around the world standing up for humanity and human rights. Amnesty International is a movement that produces extraordinary results. Prisoners of conscience are released. Death sentences are commuted. Torturers are brought to justice. Governments are persuaded to change their laws and practices. Amnesty Arts Fund Arts and artists have a unique power to bring people together and inspire positive action. Amnesty Arts Fund recognises that power and uses it to call for change. Annie Lennox, founding member of the Amnesty Arts
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel. www.yourlifeyourway.net
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lutwalk London: The radical notion that nobody deserves to be raped.
On 11th June 2011, SlutWalk came to London. Thousands of people of all races, genders, sexualities, classes and occupations came together to protest the silencing of our voices, the repression of our choices and the violence against our bodies. The word ‘slut’ carries a history of assault, shaming, insults and degradation, where people are forced to remain silent about their assault through a society and legal system which all too often places the blame on the victim. But those who came to SlutWalk were far from silent and ashamed. As much as SlutWalk was a direct challenge to the attitudes and practises which allow rape to continue in society, it was a celebration of our bodies, identities and choices, and an affirmation of our commitment to continuing the long struggle towards a world without assault.
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"I am walking because I was raped. I am walking because two thirds of people who answered a survey would say I am to blame for my rape. The only person to blame is the man who raped me.I am so angry with the lack of justice, the hundreds and thousands of rapists who walk away. I am angry because the survivors of rape are victimised again and again. If we report it (I did) we are forced to re-live it in horrendous detail several times over. We feel violated again when the CPS decides not to prosecute after all and he simply walks away. We are not victims. We were victims, for a moment in time. Now, we are survivors." - Emily Jacob http://slutmeansspeakup.org.uk/post/11787007339/announcing-slutwalk-london-2012
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