Public · By The uprising of women in the Arab world انتفاضة المرأة في العالم العربي
Tuesday 12 feb
The nearest Egyptian Embassy of our place of residency all over the world 6pm local time
نحن، مواطنات ومواطنون من جنسيّات العالم كلّه، نرفض أن نشاهد في صمت تفشّي ظاهرة الإرهاب الجنسي المُمارس على المتظاهرات المصريّات. نريد أن نظهر دعمنا وتضامننا وتقديرنا للمعتدَى عليهنّ اللواتي يدفعن من لحمهنّ الحيّ ثمن مشاركتهنّ في الثورة المصريّة المستمرّة. كما ونريد أن نحيّي جهود المتطوعين/ات الذين/اللواتي يخاطرون/ن بحياتهم/هن لتأمين ميدان التحرير.
لذلك قرّرنا أن نتجمّع يوم الثلاثاء القادم، الموافق 12 فبراير/شباط 2013 في تمام الساعة السادسة مساءً بالتوقيت المحلّي لأماكن إقامتنا، أمام السفارة/القنصلية المصريّة في دولنا.
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لنرفع أصواتَنا عاليًا:
ونحمّل الحزب الحاكم في مصر مسؤولية عدم اتخاذ تدابير صارمة تمنع عصابات البلطجيّة من مهاجمة وتعرية واغتصاب وإيذاء وقتل المتظاهرات والمتظاهرين السلميّين
ونحمّل الشرطة المصريّة مسؤولية عدم توفير الحماية الضرورية للمواطنات المصريّات من التحرّش الجنسي، وتورّط أفرادها في جرائم التحرش/الاعتداء الجنسي
ونوجّه اللوم إلى الحكومات المصريّة المتعاقبة لتغاضيها عن جرائم التحرّش/الاعتداء الجنسي عبر عدم إقرارها لقوانين صارمة تعاقب بشدّة المتحرّشين والمتورطين في أي شكل من أشكال العنف الجنسي.
نطالب بإقرار وتطبيق قانون صارم ضد التحرّش/الاعتداء الجنسي بجميع أشكاله
ونُدين تقبّل المجتمع المصري لظاهرة التحرّش الجنسي، والعنف والاغتصاب، وإلقائه اللّوم على المعتدَى عليها عِِوضًا عن المعتدي
ونستنكر غياب الأخلاقية والمهنيّة عن عمل الإعلام لتركيزه على التفاصيل الحياتيّة والشخصية للمعتدَى عليها عِوضًا عن التركيز على الفعل الجُرمي
ونناشد كل المجموعات الثوريّة، والأحزاب السياسيّة، ومنظمات المجتمع المدني والأفراد لفضح هذه الممارسات والتحرّك الفوري في مواجهة الاعتداءات الجنسيّة المنظمة والتي تهدف إلى تشويه صورة ميدان التحرير وإرهاب المتظاهرات والمتظاهرين، بالإضافة إلى الوقوف بوجه ظاهرة التحرّش الجنسي التي تستهدف فتيات وسيدات مصر بشكل يومي في شوارع بلدهن.
مقاومة الإذلال والعنف الجنسي هي أولى الأولويات في سعينا نحو الحرية والكرامة
نحيّي كل بطلة وبطل في هذه الثورة المصريّة المستمرّة
أنتم تعلموننا الشجاعة الثبات والتصميم
ملاحظة هامة: ارتفعت قائمة الدول المتضامنة حول العالم، تجدون في الأسفل قائمة بجميع الوقفات التي يتم تنظيمها في المدن المختلفة وصولًا ليوم الثلاثاء 12 فبراير 2013
برجاء تحميل النسخة الأكبر من بوستر الوقفة من على الرابط التالي: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3f63uxYCG57MG9jSXYyZllxeHM/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3f63uxYCG57NjBzTEJxX0dnU1E/edit
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We, citizens of all nationalities all around the world, will not watch in silence the spreading epidemic of sexual terrorism. We want to show our support, solidarity and admiration for the assaulted who paid the price of the ongoing Egyptian revolution with their own flesh, and to the heroic volunteers who are risking their lives for a safe Tahrir.
Therefore on Tuesday February 12, 2013, at 6:00 pm local time, we will gather in front of the Egyptian embassy in our city/country, and people all over the world will do this.
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LET US RAISE OUR VOICES BECAUSE:
- We hold responsible the Ruling Party for not taking strict measures to prevent organized thugs attacking, stripping, raping, injuring and killing peaceful protesters;
- We hold responsible the Egyptian police and governmental institutions for not offering the necessary protection and safety to female Egyptian citizens. Not only that, but the police itself practices the crime of sexual harassment/assault;
- We blame the past and present Egyptian governments for condoning the crime of sexual harassment/assault by not issuing any strict law that clearly provides legal consequences to sexual harassers or those that indulge in sexual violence. We demand the enforcement of a strict law against sexual harassment in all its forms.
- We condemn the social acceptability of sexual harassment, violence and rape by the Egyptian society, which puts the blame on the assaulted instead of the aggressor;
- We hold accountable irresponsible media for focusing on personal, intimate and sensationalist details of the assaulted, instead of denouncing the criminal act;
- We urge every revolutionary group, political party or individual to speak up and take IMMEDIATE action against both the sexual attacks committed by organized mobs aiming to tarnish the image of Tahrir and terrorize the protestors, and the sexual harassment targeting Egyptian women and girls on a daily basis in the streets of their own country.
Fighting sexual humiliation and aggression should be a TOP PRIORITY in the noble strive for freedom and dignity;
- We salute every hero and heroine of the ongoing Egyptian revolution!
You teach us courage, perseverance and determination.
Download here the high res poster for the Feb12 call
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3f63uxYCG57MG9jSXYyZllxeHM/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3f63uxYCG57NjBzTEJxX0dnU1E/edit
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Sexual terrorism is a technique recently used extensively by organized mobs in Egypt aiming to injure, undermine, humiliate and scare female protesters in Tahrir Square, during the ongoing Egyptian revolution.
Let's describe one of the scenarios, a true story from one of the assaulted women: she finds herself suddenly separated from her friends and encircled by 100, 200, 300 men. They tear off her clothes with knives that injure her body, they twist her neck and pull her hair to forcibly kiss her, hundreds of hands are touching her body as she is being collectively manually raped with fingers thrusted into her genitals. The attack can last for 1 or 2 hours, during which the woman is dragged by the horde from one place to another, across the floor through mud and sewage. The persons who try to help her get equally attacked: males get choked with clothing or threatened with knives, females get encircled to undergo the same horror.
Not only that, but when the victim finally manages to escape, most places refuse to offer her shelter.. because up till now, in the eyes of society, SHE is the one held responsible of the suffered crime, not the agressor. In the eyes of society, SHE is considered to be the symbol of shame, not those who try to silence her. Sexual harassment/assault/violence has become more and more socially acceptable in Egyptian society over the past 10-15 years that today we have come to witness the most horrific aspect of it, practiced as a political tool of oppression. In fact, this is not the first time sexual harassment was used as a tool to silence female protestors: as early ‘Black Wednesday’ in May 2005, authorities during a protest used sexual harassment to disperse female protesters opposing constitutional changes that would grant former president Mubarak greater presidential powers. While security personnel and police largely endorsed the harassment, and stood passively by, the attacks on protesters were recorded, condemned, and widely circulated in media.
In the face of the latest atrocities in Tahrir Square, a group of initiatives were created such as Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment / Assault - a collaborative effort between several initiatives working on sexual harassment in Egypt as well as independent volunteers - and Tahrir Body-Guard, where young Egyptians have organized and trained themselves to combat the sexual assaults on the ground. They also provide follows-up to women and girls who have suffered the attacks. These groups have succeeded in saving several of the assaulted women, despite the fact that they get attacked themselves during the operations. The number of their volunteers is growing and their efforts are tireless.
On January 25th, 2013, on the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, the number of cases reported to Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment / Assault (OpAntiSH) were 19 cases in 1 day, not including the unreported ones.
But again to reaffirm, although Tahrir Square is seeing an extreme unimaginable form of sexual violence against women, sexual harassment has become an epidemic in Egypt that affects the lives of Egyptian women on a daily basis. 83% of Egyptian women surveyed by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights in 2008 admitted to being sexually harassed, 50% of those on a daily basis. Disturbingly, HarassMap has received a number of reports from young victims – both on its reporting system and anecdotally from volunteers. School girls and boys too often encounter harassing teachers, classmates, doctors, taxi drivers and even family members who make sexual advances, grope, masturbate in front of them, and even sexually assault them. More critically, the average bystander witnessing sexual harassment does not necessarily interfere to stop harassment, the way they would in the case of an act of theft, or a street fight. In fact, they may even blame the harassed/assaulted for being the reason for sexual harassment, and even sympathize with the harasser. However no real efforts were made by previous or present governments to enforce real legal consequences on harassers that would put an end to this epidemic, hence HarassMap's mission of ending the social acceptability of sexual harassment as an approach to address it.
As OpAntiSH stated in a recent video:
"We will not stay silent. We will not be broken. We will not be ashamed."
Till now around these are the events that are being organized in different cities and locations around the world (keep coming back to check the updates)
Global Event launching the call and uniting all:
https://www.facebook.com/events/150788335077948
Egypt, Cairo
https://www.facebook.com/events/484039768310109/?fref=ts
Tunisia, Tunis
https://www.facebook.com/events/334393196678022/?ref=3
Yemen, Aden
https://www.facebook.com/events/385052684923677/?ref=22
Palestine, Ramallah
https://www.facebook.com/events/422047224540178/
Palestine, Yaffa
https://www.facebook.com/events/442487709157165/?ref=3
Morocco, Rabat
https://www.facebook.com/events/153793394777830
Syria, Damascus
https://www.facebook.com/events/219121301546293/?ref=22
Lebanon, Beirut
https://www.facebook.com/events/447501321989795?refid=54
Jordan, Amman
https://www.facebook.com/events/341078806000925/
Mauritania, Nouakchott
http://www.facebook.com/events/156514264500391/
Thailand, Ko Samui
https://www.facebook.com/events/492953594084695/
Norway, Oslo
https://www.facebook.com/events/329391147180633/?ref=3
Denmark, Copenhagen
https://www.facebook.com/events/477337958980238/?ref=3
Belgium, Brussels
https://www.facebook.com/events/327518497349166/
Netherlands, The Hague
https://www.facebook.com/events/334796859970837/
France, Paris
https://www.facebook.com/events/554777647873506/
United Kingdom, London
https://www.facebook.com/events/290741387718715/
Italy, Milano
https://www.facebook.com/events/287379384723406/?ref=3
USA, New York
https://www.facebook.com/events/487985291258453/
USA, Washington DC
https://www.facebook.com/events/133680200132921/?ref=3
Canada, Ottawa
https://www.facebook.com/events/530256920328428/
Australia, Melbourne
https://www.facebook.com/events/496947997012935/ >>>>>>> <<<<<<<<
Names of Supporting NGO's and Pages:
Egypt ,خريطة التحرّش الجنسي Harassmap http://www.facebook.com/HarassMapEgypt
Egypt, قوة ضد التحرَش/الإعتداء ,الجنسي الجماعي Operation Anti Sexual - Harassment/Assault
http://www.facebook.com/opantish
Egypt ,خليك انسان (انا ضد التحرش)
http://www.facebook.com/KhlykAnsananaDdAlthrsh
The Girl God (book) http://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod -
Women's Health and Equal Rights Initiative, Nigeria -
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Womens-Health-and-Equal-Rights-Initiative-Nigeria/339612789446858
MAAT DANCE M.E.C.A, Egypt -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maat-Dance-MECA/199236020148901
Lebanon ,صوت النسوة Sawt Al Niswa -
http://www.facebook.com/Sawtalniswa
Egypt, مبادرة فؤادة - Fouada watch -
https://www.facebook.com/FouadaWatch
Egypt ,ضـد الـتـحـرش Anti Harassment Movement -
http://www.facebook.com/Ded.Ta7rosh
Egypt ,ثــورة الـبـنـات :: للتعبير عن مطالبنا :: -
http://www.facebook.com/thwret.bnat.el3rab
True Lebanese Feminist, Lebanon -
http://www.facebook.com/TrueLebaneseFeminist
Spring Lessons / دروس الربيع -http://www.facebook.com/springlessons
Stop Street Harassment, USA -
http://www.facebook.com/StopStreetHarassment
www.stopstreetharassment.org
Egypt ,انا مش هاسكت على التحرش -
http://www.facebook.com/AnaMeshHaskot
Lebanon ,نسوية Nasawiya -
http://www.facebook.com/nasawiya
Egypt ,ثـورة البـنات - Girls Revolution -
http://www.facebook.com/Revolution4Girls
Lebanon ,شريكة ولكن- Sharika wa Laken -
http://www.facebook.com/sharikawalaken
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