\u201cHow do you combat ridiculous gender segregation in your communities?\u201d The female representative of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission asked KARAMAH executive director Aisha Rahman on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014. Ms. Fauzia Nawabi shared that, in her experience living in Afghanistan, batterers wore Armani suits, while politicians wives were constantly regulated with regards to where they could go and how they could dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The questions were well-thought out and pressing during a visit from 18 Afghanistan women\u2019s rights leaders. Among the delegation were women and men who are prosecutors, judges, grassroots advocates and community leaders. All of the leaders were working to examine the status of women\u2019s rights in the United States, as well as various approaches to countering gender based violence. The meeting was focused on KARAMAH\u2019s research, outreach and advocacy work to promote human rights and gender equity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the meeting, Ms. Rahman spoke about the KARAMAH\u2019s scholarship surrounding the \u201ctwo women to one man as a witness\u201d claim generally used to prove the lesser nature of women in some communities, including Afghanistan. \u201cIn Islam,\u201d she said, \u201cwe\u2019re not fighting for equality, but equity. God created us to be different, but we are all created from the same nafs. We are of the same soul, and because because He breathed of His soul into all humans, our value before God is the same..\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She then continued to discuss not only gender differences, but differences of race and ethnicity: \u201cWe at KARAMAH govern ourselves from the diversity principle found in the Qur\u2019an. God tells us that humans are made into different nations and tribes so that we may know one another.\u201d The female representatives in the room lit up at such an observation, and it pushed out further questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Rahman also spoke to the state of women\u2019s rights in marriage. \u201cWomen are actually given more rights in marriage, and KARAMAH teaches about the marriage contract and rights given to women within marriage at our annual summer program. It is also a focus of our lectures around the world. In Islam, women, not men, are given a gift (mahr) at the beginning the marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Rahman then spoke to combatting gender issues within Muslim communities: \u201cWe have found that working with imams and speaking on the issues is more effective than attempting to have women\u2019s rights organizations do so. The primary goal is to work with imams to figure out perspectives. A lot of imams and those speaking from community pulpits aren\u2019t the most knowledgeable about Islam, and we have to first teach them, then continue it forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This delegation, just as the ones that come before it, was educating and enlightening for KARAMAH. Speaking with and learning from Muslims all over the world informs our work and ensures that we prioritize our work according to the needs of the community. KARAMAH hopes to continue to expand its network through these meetings.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cHow do you combat ridiculous gender segregation in your communities?\u201d The female representative of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission asked KARAMAH executive director Aisha Rahman on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014. Ms. Fauzia Nawabi shared that, in her experience living in Afghanistan, batterers wore Armani suits, while politicians wives were constantly regulated with regards to where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}