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Autore: Patrizia Fabbri

Rise in Defense of the Victims of Sexual Assault by the Taliban Oppressors!

The women victims of gang rape by these zombies, contrary to the rotten patriarchal culture and ethics that consider them a “family disgrace”, are resilient and brave women

On July 3, 2024, The Guardian reported a shocking case of Taliban’s sexual assault on a female prisoner. Taliban insurgents filmed a gang rape of a female prisoner and sent it to her later, threatening her that if she did not remain silent it would be released. This woman courageously sent the clip to several media outlets, including “Rukhshana.” On June 25, 2024, The Guardian also covered cases of rape and sexual harassment of girls who were detained and assaulted by brutal enforcers of the moral policing for the “crime” of not obeying “Islamic hijab”.

Violence, harassment, and sexual assault against women are tools used by fascist religious groups, not only revealing their depravity and brutality but also serving as means of terrorization, suppression, and breaking down protest and resistance. This is not the first example of the Taliban’s and other fundamentalist groups’ depravity; we have numerous examples both in Afghanistan and around the world where religious fascists have raped and tortured women. During the years of bloodshed and violence under Jihadists’ rule, many women in Kabul were sexually assaulted, and these criminals did not hesitate to rape a 7-year-old child and 70-year-old mothers. The Unity Party turned Cinema Barikot and Polytechnic University into centers for assaults on women, and similarly, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Sayyaf gunmen raped women in Afshar area of Kabul; Gulbuddin in Karte Naw and Chilsatoon, and Dostum’s in Shah Shahid and the Shar-e-Kuhna. Every day, painful cases of sexual assault on young girls and boys in mosques and schools in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other Islamic countries are leaked to the media. The criminals of the theocratic regime of Iran raped girls the night before their execution to ensure as virgins they wouldn’t go to heaven; bloodthirsty ISIS militants enslaved countless Yazidi women in Iraq; the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt raped women during protests against Mohamed Morsi; the Pakistani military, with the help of Bangladesh’s Islamic Jamaat, raped hundreds of women in 1971; Boko Haram militants in Nigeria repeatedly kidnapped groups of schoolgirls and sexually assaulted them for months; and other examples.

One should not expect more from the ignorant group of the Taliban, who themselves faced abuse and mistreatment in the religious schools (Madrassa) for years, and this have developed severe hatreds in them. They do not hesitate from wearing suicide belts and spilling the blood of innocent people to achieve their dream of reaching 72 heavenly virgins. The Taliban consider women as tools to satisfy their lusts, branding them as infidels and atheist, they count women as their war booty and justify all kinds of brutality against them. In part of the clip, a Taliban attacker shouts: “For years, the Americans f***ed you; now it’s our turn.”

The shame and disgrace of this horrific report fall upon the United Nations, especially the US clown called Roza Otunbayeva (Head of UNAMA), Rosemary DiCarlo (Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations), Rina Amiri, and the so-called “international community”, who have knelt before the bloodthirsty Taliban leaders in Doha, cunningly and treacherously defying all conventions, the United Nations Charter, and human rights laws, and by sacrificing the women and oppressed people of Afghanistan, seek to cleanse and strengthen the inquisitorial, fascist, and aggressive administration of the “Islamic Emirate.”

The shame and filth of such an assault and violence against our women falls upon the Taliban leaders, from Mullah Hibatullah to Mullah Zabihullah Mujahid, Mullah Baradar, the Haqqani family, and others who, with bastardy try to cover up and deny such crimes and savagery. Its dirt falls upon the female traitors such as Fawzia Koofi, Habiba Sarabi, Nahid Farid, Shahrzad Akbar, Moqadasa Yourish, Asila Wardak, Zarifa Ghafari, Fatima Gailani, Jamila Afghani, Mary Akrami, Ghatool Momand, Sharifa Zarbati, Laila Jafari, and others who have been dealing with the Taliban for years and paved the way for their return to power. The filth falls on women like Mahbouba Seraj, Madina Mahboobi, Zahra Saba, Zahra Bahman, Farida Mazhab, Tayeba Hashemi, and others who have turned into Taliban lobbyists with strange baseness and dead consciences and, as pro-West figures are seeking to whitewash the crimes and facilitate the recognition of these medieval beings and mercenaries of imperialism.

The “Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan” (RAWA) bows its head in respect to that dignified and brave woman who provided the video of the Taliban gang rape to the media. The women victims of gang rape by these zombies, contrary to the rotten patriarchal culture and ethics that consider them a “family disgrace,” are resilient and brave women who should be supported and comforted by our people and justice seekers. Although in a society immersed in ignorance and darkness, sexual assault victims suffer a tortured and painful life due to taunts and “shame” but those who have the slightest conscience and honor, should consider that the victims of rape, especially those who stand against these taboos and expose and unmask the dirty enemy, are heroines and warriors who should continue the fight against the Taliban with their heads held high and with a commitment to the struggle.

Suffering Afghan sisters,

A crucial and sustained struggle against jihadist and Taliban fundamentalists and the creation of a society based on democracy and social justice is not possible without a fight, and victory in this battle requires sacrifice and steadfastness! Let us stand together and with one voice!

Human rights education workshops in schools

The CISDA ETS association organizes free human rights education workshops in schools.

The workshops can easily be included in Civic Education programs.

Starting from the 2005 school year, CISDA has carried out activities of this type in numerous schools in Milan and the province, and throughout the national territory where the presence of volunteers allows it. Alternatively, online connections have been created. The CISDA operators agree on working hours and methods with the teachers.

The primary objective of the training interventions is to encourage a process of critical in-depth analysis that can have repercussions on the process of acquiring active citizenship skills.

If requested and compatibly with organizational needs, it is possible to offer schools the direct testimony of some Afghan activists from the associations that CISDA supports. These meetings are generally well attended and leave an indelible mark on the growth experience of the children involved.

For more information on this activity write to cisdaets@cisda.it

Staffetta Femminista – Feministische Staffel

CISDA ha tessuto in oltre vent’anni di lavoro fra Italia e Afghanistan, una preziosa rete di relazioni per il sostegno alle attiviste locali e ai loro progetti di aiuto alle donne che fuggono dalla violenza patriarcale e dal fondamentalismo religioso.

Volontarie, operatrici impegnate nella lotta alla violenza contro le donne e nel supporto alle donne migranti in Italia, attiviste per i diritti umani, hanno deciso di sostenere questo impegno, lanciando l’iniziativa Staffetta Femminista Italia – Afghanistan.

Cos’è Staffetta Femminista

7.000 chilometri e tante trappole mortali nel passaggio delle frontiere, separano l’Italia dall’Afghanistan: affiancando l’azione che CISDA svolge da anni, Staffetta Femminista li percorre idealmente per combattere gli stereotipi e la sottocultura sessista e patriarcale nella sua dimensione transnazionale.

Attiviste per i diritti umani, volontarie e operatrici impegnate nella lotta alla violenza di genere e nel supporto alle donne migranti, si uniscono in gruppi aperti al contributo di chiunque si riconosca negli obiettivi comuni.

Passandoci il testimone, di tappa in tappa, costruiamo un ponte di corpi, saperi e pratiche, per unirci alle attiviste afghane delle organizzazioni laiche e progressiste che lottano in gravissime difficoltà contro la guerra, il fondamentalismo e la violenza. Insieme, per abbattere tutte le frontiere costituite da quanto priva le donne del diritto alla vita e alla libertà, e testimoniare che un altro mondo è possibile.

Staffetta Femminista Italia – Afghanistan si unisce al progetto Vite Preziose per sostenere le donne afghane soggette a situazioni violenza. Queste donne ricevono ancora oggi, un aiuto dalle organizzazioni partner di Cisda al fine di concretizzare i loro progetti di vita e uscire dalla schiavitù.

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Staffetta Femminista – Feminist Relay Italy – Afghanistan

In over twenty years of work between Italy and Afghanistan, CISDA has woven a precious network of relationships to support local activists and their projects to help women fleeing patriarchal violence and religious fundamentalism.

Volunteers, workers involved in the fight against violence against women and in supporting migrant women in Italy, human rights activists, have decided to support this commitment by launching the Staffetta Femminista Italia – Afghanistan initiative.

What is Staffetta Femminista

7,000 kilometers and many deadly traps in border crossings separate Italy from Afghanistan: alongside the action that CISDA has been carrying out for years, Staffetta Femminista ideally travels them to combat stereotypes and the sexist and patriarchal subculture in its transnational dimension.

Human rights activists, volunteers and workers involved in the fight against gender violence and in supporting migrant women, come together in groups open to the contribution of anyone who identifies with the common objectives.

Passing the baton, from stage to stage, we build a bridge of bodies, knowledge and practices, to join the Afghan activists of secular and progressive organizations who fight in very serious difficulties against war, fundamentalism and violence. Together, to break down all the borders created by what deprives women of the right to life and freedom, and testify that another world is possible.

Staffetta Femminista Italia – Afghanistan joins the Vite Preziose project to support Afghan women subject to violent situations. These women still receive help from Cisda’s partner organizations today in order to realize their life plans and escape slavery.

For more information on Staffetta Femminista write to cisdaets@cisda.it

 

CISDA zur Unterstützung Kurdistans

La storia dell’impegno del CISDA per il Kurdistan ha origine nel gennaio 2015, quando tre esponenti del CISDA si incontrano a Londra con alcune militanti curde della comunità locale. Da quella conversazione, in cui visioni ed esperienze politiche si intrecciano e sempre più chiaramente si rivelano consonanti, nasce il progetto di una delegazione in Kurdistan composta da compagne del CISDA e da giornaliste e altre attiviste, delegazione che si concretizza effettivamente nei primi quindici giorni del marzo 2015.

L’incontro di Londra non era casuale: già da mesi, dall’autunno 2014, il CISDA stava seguendo con attenzione le manifestazioni che si stavano moltiplicando in Afghanistan a sostegno dell’eroica resistenza di Kobane di fronte all’avanzata dell’ISIS.

La delegazione aveva quindi il compito di costruire un ponte tra militanti politici curdi e militanti dei movimenti democratici afghani, con l’obiettivo di sostegno politico vicendevole. Inoltre, si volevano portare aiuti economici all’esausta popolazione curda di Kobane sfollata a Suruç.

Tra il 1° e il 15 marzo 2015, la delegazione organizzata dal CISDA ha quindi consegnato i fondi raccolti in Italia (10.000 euro) suddividendoli tra i seguenti beneficiari:

  • Rojava Solidarity di Suruç, per l’acquisto beni di prima necessità per gli sfollati di Kobane ospitati nei campi profughi della città;
  • Municipalità di Kobane, per la ricostruzione della città;
  • Campo Profughi nei pressi di Diyarbakir, per gli Yazidi sfollati;
  • partito HDP, per attività a favore degli sfollati di Kobane (allestimento e mantenimento campi);
  • Women Peace Initiative Center di Istanbul, per il pagamento delle spese di viaggio delle volontarie che si recano a lavorare tra i profughi di Kobane per periodi che variano da tre a sei mesi;
  • Heyva Sor (Mezza Luna Rossa del Kurdistan).

Il CISDA intende proseguire la cooperazione con queste realtà politiche curde, senza per questo sottrarre attenzione e impegno per le attività delle associazioni che da sempre sostiene in Afghanistan. Terrà quindi aperta la comunicazione e lo scambio con l’UIKI (Ufficio Italiano Informazioni Kurdistan), con la Mezza Luna Rossa del Kurdistan e con le compagne del Movimento di liberazione curdo, continuando anche a raccogliere fondi e organizzando iniziative a favore del Kurdistan.

Questa apertura politica al Kurdistan è non solo condivisa, ma anzi decisamente incoraggiata dai movimenti democratici afgani con i quali collabora il CISDA.

CISDA in support of Kurdistan

The history of CISDA’s commitment to Kurdistan originates in January 2015, when three CISDA representatives met in London with some Kurdish militants from the local community. From that conversation, in which political visions and experiences intertwine and increasingly reveal themselves to be consonant, was born the project of a delegation to Kurdistan made up of CISDA comrades and journalists and other activists, a delegation which actually materializes in the first fifteen days of the March 2015.

The meeting in London was not accidental: for months, since autumn 2014, CISDA had been carefully following the demonstrations that were multiplying in Afghanistan in support of the heroic resistance of Kobane in the face of the advance of ISIS.

The delegation therefore had the task of building a bridge between Kurdish political militants and militants of the Afghan democratic movements, with the aim of mutual political support. Furthermore, they wanted to bring economic aid to the exhausted Kurdish population of Kobane displaced in Suruç.

  • Between 1 and 15 March 2015, the delegation organized by CISDA then delivered the funds collected in Italy (10,000 euros) dividing them among the following beneficiaries:
  • Rojava Solidarity of Suruç, for the purchase of basic necessities for the displaced people of Kobane hosted in the city’s refugee camps;
  • Kobane Municipality, for the reconstruction of the city;
  • Refugee camp near Diyarbakir, for displaced Yazidis;
  • HDP party, for activities in favor of the displaced people of Kobane (setting up and maintaining camps);
  • Women Peace Initiative Center in Istanbul, for the payment of travel expenses of volunteers who go to work among the refugees of Kobane for periods ranging from three to six months;
  • Heyva Sor (Kurdistan Red Crescent).

CISDA intends to continue cooperation with these Kurdish political realities, without detracting attention and commitment from the activities of the associations it has always supported in Afghanistan. It will therefore keep communication and exchange open with the UIKI (Italian Kurdistan Information Office), with the Kurdistan Red Crescent and with the comrades of the Kurdish Liberation Movement, also continuing to raise funds and organizing initiatives in favor of Kurdistan.

This political openness to Kurdistan is not only shared, but indeed decidedly encouraged by the Afghan democratic movements with which CISDA collaborates.