Each year, KARAMAH holds a parallel event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session that is held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York with…
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…the participants in the First American Muslim Women Leaders Summit, in recognition of the critical challenges facing the American Muslim community in general and American Muslim women in particular, have…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZEycF73pE “If you are familiar with the jurisprudence and the religion, you can disassemble it and tell [women] it’s their choice to either follow religion or culture… Invariably they will…
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…hunger. In addition to providing examples of how Muslim women leaders and Muslim women’s organizations throughout history have served their communities, panelists also alluded to the idea that similar models…
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…rights, women’s rights, and civil rights in Islam. Delegates were especially excited to hear about KARAMAH’s collection of research on women’s rights in Islam. Delegates were specifically interested in reviewing…
…available at http://www.fiba.com/strategy [2] Id. [3] In Basketball, Danger of Head Trauma available at http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/in-basketball-danger-of-head-trauma/?_r=0 [4] Ibtihaj Muhammad Makes U.S. History, Wears Hijab at Fencing Competition available at http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/08/08/ibtihaj-muhammad-makes-us-history-wears-hijab-in-olympics/88399686/ [5]…
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…Awad regaled the audience with story after story of Muslim women who were scholars, business women, teachers, and activists. These women’s stories are included in an anthology of important Muslim…
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…discriminating against women. Ms. Omar spoke about how she was personally influenced by four women she called “the four founding mothers in the American Muslim community.” One of these women…
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…March 7th, was titled, “Violence against Women in War Zones: Prescriptions for Ending Systemic Failures in Preventing War Crimes against Women.” To address this topic, KARAMAH invited Prof. Dina Francesca…
Continuing advocacy against violence, KARAMAH gives two presentations at the UN CSW Read More »
…Colloquium this year focused on the topic of “Women as Agents of Political Change” and aimed to shed light on the multitude of spheres where women– locally, nationally, and globally-…
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