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💻 There are many collections at various news agencies of photos from the Internation Women’s Day rallies, marches, and ceremonies. I opted to present the from Al Jazeera and The Guardian as they have a slightly diverse range and presents photos from seldom seen places. Plus it has one from Nepal which has a particular placard on display “Pain, Stain and Tax” slogan with an unhappy tears face emoji.
Al Jazeera gallery In Pictures: Thousands rally on International Women’s Day
The Guardian collection → International Women's Day around the world – in pictures
📒 MEMO (MiddleEast Monitor), published in UK, Europe, Russia, Middleeast (including Israel), takes a cursory glance at a new report by UK Charity War on Want. The report is titled “Judge, Jury, and Occupier”. The artilce at MEMO → 'Judge, Jury, and Occupier', new report exposes Israel's apartheid military court system
A new report by the UK charity War on Want has further exposed Israel's two-tier racist legal system in a detailed analysis of the military court system in the occupied West Bank operated by the Zionist state.
Titled, 'Judge, Jury, and Occupier', the London-based anti-poverty charity exposes how Israel's military court system upholds its illegal occupation in the West Bank by enforcing repressive laws on the Palestinian population; suppressing dissent, quashing resistance to occupation, and deepening its military rule.
There are two legal systems operating in parallel for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, said the report, explaining that there is "Palestinian law and Israeli military law, the latter of which is codified through thousands of military orders".
📙 Over at The Dhaka Tribune, Op-Ed by Rajib Bhowmick (Runs Communications and Advocacy Outreach programme at International Rice Research Institute, Dhaka University) Rice is a very big deal for Bangladesh. Rajib, surprised by being asked to deliver a talk at his work on “importance of empowering women in the workplace” for International Women’s Day, instead of usual new developements on how to grow rice or importance of funding rice research, or getting more young people interested in rice and such things that are his usual things, shares his reflection. Did I mention rice is the most dominant factor in Bangladesh even if you might be tempted to think it is surely cheap garments based on the news that reaches USA? His op-ed titled OP-ED: Doing the world a massive favour starts with,
I was recently asked to give a talk on the importance of empowering women in the workplace at an internal event of my office for Women’s Day. It got me thinking: What made the organizers think that I was the right person for this? Was it because I came across as someone who is least bothered by the gender of their colleagues? I hope that’s the reason because that is exactly how I like to see myself.
Was I like this 20 years ago, when I was in school? How was I when I was in university? I say to myself, no, I was not always like this. Because the society we live in has historically been dominated by men. It teaches us to think of ourselves as superior to the girls and women in our lives -- our siblings, cousins, classmates, friends, and peers.
Much of the discrimination against women in social and family settings comes from our subconscious, which has been shaped by the institutions and narratives of the society that we grow up in. It takes a lot of very conscious mental effort to raise yourself above those stereotypes and behave in an unbiased way. Breaking those shackles imposed by your subconscious mind isn’t easy, but it’s not a wall that is impossible take down.
📙While I try to avoid including two opinion pieces from same place, this one due to its content I thought merited an inclusion. Mohamad Tareq Husain (University of Dhaka) penned this titled OP-ED: Can we become better men? it starts
One of the more contemporary pressing global agendas is: Making the world better for women.
Women face myriad oppressions in our society. Hence, social development interventions try to engage and make aware about various forms of violence they face in daily life, teach them to speak up for their rights, protest violence, etc. SOS buttons were introduced on different digital applications in addition to hotline numbers so that women can seek support if faced with violence.
Nonetheless, the world has not become “better” for women and, ironically, we are mostly focusing on the ways women can just survive in this troubled world.
📒 Over at tut.by (6 Mar 2021) news agency in Belarus, where President Alexander Lukashenko has been in news ocasionally and is maintaining his grip on power by brute force and opression, had this gem nestled among the other articles, recalling showman Max Ehrlich. Russian original for those who are able to read russian → Нацисты обожали его анекдоты — и расстреляли последним. Как шоумен создал лучшее в Европе кабаре Читать полностью, google translated link for rest → The Nazis loved his jokes - and they shot him last. How a showman created the best cabaret in Europe
The young actor first appeared on stage in 1912 at the German Theater in Berlin, directed by the great Max Reinhardt. Then he excelled on the stages of various fashionable cabarets in the city, and in 1926 he made his film debut. As an actor, Max Ehrlich has played in dozens of films - in some of them he also acted as a screenwriter, and sometimes as a director. In 1928, his book "From Adelbert to Silzer" was published - a collection of tales and anecdotes about famous friends and colleagues in show business. The artist, although he dabbled in parodies, was very far from politics. However, this did not save him from being banned from the profession after the Nazis came to power in 1933. The in-demand showman shared the fate of eight thousand Jewish actors, musicians, singers, directors and theatrical figures in Germany who were left without work.
A solution was found quickly - Ehrlich left for Vienna with the troupe of theater director Rudolf Nelson, also a Jew. But a brown shadow has already fallen on this city: the director of the Viennese variety show began to receive anonymous letters from local Nazis demanding "to cancel the show of Berlin Jews." The Nelson Revue premiere has not been canceled. The Nazis went berserk: they booed Max and disrupted the performance by shouting “Jews - out! Jews out! " The audience fled from the theater in panic. For the third performance, more than 200 policemen pulled up to the theater - in the end, the troupe curtailed the "tour".
🎧 In Jamica, the Jamaica Observer celebrated its 28th Birthday with this recollection by Desmond Allen, the first employee and founding editor of the paper, about on how it came to be conceived → The Jamaica Observer is 28: A midwife's tale.
Exactly 28 years to the day, the Jamaica Observer yesterday marked a moment in time that has changed the media landscape in Jamaica and achieved what only one other newspaper has been able to do — exist beyond 10 years — as it moves relentlessly towards the third decade.
It's a story worth telling:
From different corporate offices at different points in the capital Kingston — call it fate, if you will — a common vision emerged about the same time in the minds of two men: hotel and business mogul Gordon “Butch” Stewart and banker Delroy Lindsay.
Out of that common vision, the Jamaica Observer was born to become the fourth daily newspaper in modern Jamaica on December 11, 1994. But before hitting the streets as a daily, the Observer story had already begun to unfold in an interesting and intriguing way.
📚 Al Jazeera (08 Mar 2021) had a thoughful long piece by Julie Bindel titled ‘As if she had never existed’: The graveyards for murdered women. The piece paints a very different picture of Kurds than the usual ones coming out of Washington Press paiting an egalitarian picture of Kurds that we are used to seeing, if and when Kurds make it to news due to the war against ISIL. The article starts with,
In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, female victims of ‘honour killings’ lie buried in unmarked graves, denied even their names in death, but Kurdish feminists are fighting back.
Naza* is visiting her daughter’s grave in an unmarked section of a cemetery in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. She goes there in secret – the girl’s death has been shrouded in a veil of family shame, so much so that her grave is unmarked.
The reason? “My beautiful girl was killed by her cousin when she refused to marry him,” Naza says.
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