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Bulgaria: prima donna eletta speaker al parlamento
As expected, lawyer Tsetska Tsacheva was elected as Speaker of the 41st Bulgarian Parliament hours after its 240 MPs were sworn in on July 14 2009.
Tsacheva was elected by a unanimous vote. She is a representative of the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (abbreviated as GERB in Bulgarian), who won the biggest share of votes at the July 5 2009 elections.
"What people expect from us is more work and, most of all, self-discipline," she said, addressing the hall. Tsacheva is a lawyer from the central town of Pleven where she was on the municipal council.
This was her first election to Parliament.
Serbia: violenza contro donne attiviste
Over the past year women human rights activists have faced repeated attacks in the Serbian media including being threatened with lynching.
Such attacks are made by parliamentarians, members of ultra-right organizations and members of the security services indicted for war crimes. Other defenders have had their property destroyed, their offices attacked or been beaten by members of neo-Nazi groups.
The briefing also focuses on those who defend the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT). Since 2001 the LGBT community in Serbia has been unable to hold a Pride Day parade due to serious threats by right-wing and religious organizations. Such organizations have already made unveiled threats against the organizers of this year’s parade, scheduled for 20 September.
"The LGBT community is marginalized even within civil society and criminal investigations into assaults on LGBT people, even where the perpetrators have been identified, are rarely resolved," Sian Jones said.
Polonia: la chiesa luterana si ostina a rifiutare le donne pastore
Jerzy Sojka, spokesperson for the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, which has 80 000 members, told Ecumenical News International that the matter of women clergy was not excluded from discussion but added, "Our situation is not conditioned by theological considerations alone but also by economic, social and cultural questions, as well as by ecumenical relations. Although a debate on this issue is taking place, it also needs quiet reflection."
The lay Lutheran was responding to a conference declaration by 30 women theologians from Poland, Germany, Russia, Latvia and Brazil that Lutheran churches in Poland and Latvia were being unjust in excluding women from their ordained ministry. Most member churches of the Lutheran World Federation, which represents 68.5 million Lutherans worldwide, do ordain women.
In their declaration at the end of the 9 to 13 September conference at Mikolajki, a town in north-eastern Poland, the female theologians said that qualified Lutheran women in Poland were still waiting to "live their vocation to the full," while colleagues in Latvia had been admitted to the ordained ministry in 1975 but were debarred again in 1992.
The statement added that Lutheran women in Poland and Latvia were victims of the "structural violence experienced for centuries by women in the church," which was "often invisible, silent and systemic," and "exercised through unjust social and ecclesiastical structures."
Polonia: vandalizzato memoriale dell'olocausto
According to The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, unknown vandals threw white paint over the commemorative plaque affixed to the monument at the cemetery in Klodzko sometime last week.
According to the foundation, this was the latest in a series of incidents in recent weeks at Jewish cemeteries. In Izbica, unknown persons set fire to a large tree at the local Jewish cemetery, and in Leczna, where local volunteers have been working to clean up the cemetery, unknown persons dumped a load of trash on the grounds.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/18/1008565/polish-holocaust-memorial-vandalized
Russia: la chiesa ortodossa rifiuta di riconoscere una donna leader di chiesa e rompe con i luterani tedeschi
Dialogue between the churches, which has been strong and steady for the past 50 years, was no longer possible because of Käßmann’s election, said Rev. Georgy Zavershinsky, spokesman for the Russian church’s office of external relations in Moscow.
The church permitted no ordination nor even leadership roles for women, he said.
it appears to be the fact of her being a woman, rather than a divorcee, that the Russians object to.
Austria: approvata legge sulle unioni civili gay
The bill, slated to become law Jan. 1, will give same-sex couples many of the rights enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts, including access to a pension if one partner dies and alimony in the event of a split.
"We are living in the 21st century and I'm very glad this step is being taken today," Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner said during parliamentary debate leading up to the vote.
Christian Hoegl, co-president of the Homosexual Initiative Vienna, Austria's oldest group of gays and lesbians, agreed.
"It's a relief, a big success and a reward for two decades of lobbying," Hoegl said.
The legislation — considered a compromise between the governing coalition — did not pass unanimously. In the end, of the 174 lawmakers who cast ballots, 110 voted in favor of the bill, and 64 voted against it.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDt8Yq8oetIOgJKLxdZGsNAvWNDwD9CGM8U80
Albania: approvata legge che proibisce la discriminazione sulla base del genere e dell'orientamento sessuale
Albanian rights groups and the Alliance against the Discrimination of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) welcomed the law as a powerful legal tool to protect against any kind of discrimination.
This law is not simply a fulfilment of requirements that Albania has undertaken for European Union integration and visa liberalisation. Above all, it is a victory for democracy and for human rights for all Albanians,' the LGBT community said.
The bill guarantees citizens against discrimination on grounds of gender, race, colour, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_487023.html
Polonia: integralisti cattolici lanciano messaggi di odio antiebraico da Radio Marjia
Anti-Semitic rhetoric is heard on broadcasts from listeners who call the station, as well as from the station’s own commentators and panelists.
On January 11, 2009, for example, Dr. Krzysztof Kawecki justified the persecution of Jews between the two world wars and claimed, “The boycotting of Jewish stores was necessary for self defense against the alien competition.”
Professor Boguslaw Wolniewicz criticized the nation’s president Lech Kaczynski for participating in a Hanukkah service. “What should we Poles care about Hanukkah,” he said in a broadcast on January 31 last year. “It looked awful for the government to do this.”
On march 27,2006 Michaelkiewicz addressed Holocaust restitution efforts this way in a Radio Maryja broadcast:
“While we are implementing democracy, the Judeans are sneaking up from the back trying to force our government to pay protection money, concealing the fact by calling it compensation.”
My request to interview Father Rydzik in Torun was declined.
”You have to understand that the Catholic Church does not want to act against Rydzik and sow divisions within the church,” said Katarzyna Bilok, who has studied the station,” adding that “the church sees benefits from the leadership of Father Rydzik because he is a powerful evangelizer.”
Austria: migliaia di ragazze immigrate subiscono la mutilazione genitale femminile
Between 6,000 and 8,000 women in Austria have been forced to undergo genital mutilation, according to Social Democratic MP Petra Bayr.
Bayr, a member of the Austrian Platform against Female Genital Mutilation, said today: "Many parents believe they are doing their daughters a favour by forcing them to undergo it."
Bayr said the Platform wanted 6 February - proclaimed "International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation" at the Inter African Committee conference seven years ago - to become a UN commemorative day to increase public awareness of the problem.
The Platform will also begin a Europe-wide campaign against genital mutilation with an event on 17 February at Palais Epstein in Vienna.
Greens’ women’s spokeswoman Judith Schwentner called for asylum for all prospective victims of genital mutilation, "a serious assault on the physical and sexual integrity of women and a serious violation of human rights."
The Platform claims 155 million women around the world have been subject to genital mutilation, and Amnesty International says three million women a year, or 8,000 a day, are forced to undergo it.
Polonia: giornale cattolico integralista perde causa per aver paragonato ai nazisti una donna che voleva abortire
The Gosc Niedzielny Catholic weekly lost its appeal, Friday, after accusing a woman of trying to kill her unborn baby, the Court of Appeal in Katowice ruled.
The court in Katowice upheld an earlier lower court’s ruling that Gosc Niedzielny and its publisher – archdiocese in the southern city of Katowice – will have to apologize to Alicja Tysiac and pay her 30,000 zloty (7,200 euro) in damages.
Gosc Niedzielny published a series of articles in which it accused Tysiac of attempting to kill her unborn baby and compared the woman with Nazi war criminals. Both courts decided that describing Alicja Tysiac’s case the weekly deliberately used expressions which were offensive, disdainful and aggressive. “Christianity is the religion of love and so should the language of the Catholic weekly be. Instead, it chose the language of hate,” said the judge.
http://www.thenews.pl/national/artykul126999_catholic-weekly-loses-abortion-killer-case-.html
Polonia: Soad Baba Aïssa, araba laica, ha sostenuto Alicja Tysiac attaccata dagli integralisti cattolici
J’ai activement participé à la campagne 20 ans barakat (20 ans, ça suffit ! pour l’abrogation du Code de la famille algérien, fondée sur les préceptes de la chari’a).
Lourdement handicapée, mère de deux enfants, Alicja redoutait une nouvelle grossesse. Face à des médecins qui ont nié son handicap, elle n’a pas réussi à obtenir une autorisation d’IVG légale et a dû mener sa grossesse à terme.
En Pologne, il n’existe aucun recours pour une femme face au refus de l’IVG. C’est contre ce refus et pour avoir été la victime du système fondamentaliste qu’Alicja a pu, soutenue par les féministes polonaises, faire condamner en 2007, l’État polonais par la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme pour refus d’IVG légale à lui verser la somme de 25 000 euros de dommages et intérêts.
Elle a été traitée de « meurtrière en puissance car elle voulait tuer son enfant », « nous vivons dans un monde où une mère reçoit une récompense, parce qu’elle voulait absolument tuer son enfant, mais on ne le lui a pas permis ». Ce journal appelle à obliger Alicja « à rendre son enfant puisqu’elle ne le voulait pas ». Elle a été comparée aux criminels nazis et l’IVG à la Shoah. Alicja a contre-attaqué pour préserver son honneur et sa vie.
Russia: estremisti islamici minacciano le donne che non indossano il velo
Many women in Russia's volatile Chechnya region said on Friday they had been harassed and some physically harmed by bands of men for not wearing headscarves during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Residents and witnesses told Reuters that bearded men in traditional Islamic dress have been roaming the streets both on foot and in cars since Ramadan started on Aug. 11, demanding bare-headed women wear a headscarf.
"Two men came up to me, one furiously fingering a prayer bead, and said it wasn't pretty to have a bare head during Ramadan," 38-year old Markha Atabayeva told Reuters in the Chechen capital Grozny. "They instilled such fear in me".
Atabayeva was one of at least a dozen women who told of harassment or attacks. One of the women's assailants told Reuters "hundreds" of women had been warned.
Atabayeva said earlier she had seen a group of men with automatic rifles taunting women for not wearing headscarves.