Masress : Articles of the author Ida Jøker Krog

In celebration of International Day of the Girl Child: A Story of Afghan Girlhood

Najiba Kasraee grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan. This is an excerpt from her life story, focusing on her childhood in Kabul, as she told it to the British Afghan Women's Society. “I remember that there was only four of us in the family: my grandmother, my mother, my brother and myself. My first (...)

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11 - 10 - 2012

Special Report: Taxpayers in the European Union pay for the occupation of Western Sahara

In May 2006, the European Union first signed a fisheries agreement with the Kingdom of Morocco, allowing European vessels to fish in Moroccan-controlled waters, including the waters off the coast of occupied Western Sahara. Western Sahara has been under Moroccan siege for almost 40 years, but the (...)

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12 - 08 - 2012

Egypt, a comic book, a revolution and a store

CAIRO: During the Egyptian revolution last year, an American comic book, translated into Arabic, was said to have circulated between the protesters in Tahrir Square. Called "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story" it depicted, graphically and in text, an example of peaceful civil disobedience. (...)

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18 - 07 - 2012

Lagos Economic Summit: To sustain African growth invest in women

The Second African Women's Economic Summit took place in Lagos, Nigeria last week and saw hundreds of women professionals and entrepreneurs gathered to pledge their ongoing commitment to empower African women economically. The summit called for the investment in women to push Africa's economies (...)

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17 - 07 - 2012

Africa looks to empower women agriculture entrepreneurs

CAIRO: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), made up of 16 African countries, signed an agreement aiming to empower women agricultural entrepreneurs in West Africa with The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) on Monday, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as part of the African (...)

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16 - 07 - 2012

Strategic solidarity of peoples under occupation: Palestine, Tibet and Western Sahara

The refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria shelter an estimated 200,000 Saharawi refugees from the Western Sahara, a country that has been occupied illegally by Morocco since the 1970s. The Saharawis have been living in the camps for just as long, and so generations have grown up in the isolated society (...)

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11 - 07 - 2012

Making law-fare: The West Bank barrier and Western Sahara

Eight years ago today, on July 9, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published its advisory opinion on the Israel-constructed West Bank barrier separating Israeli and Palestinian territory, ruling it to be "contrary to international law.” The Court then stated that the wall, parts of (...)

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09 - 07 - 2012

Dalia Ziada on Egypt's women under Morsi: "Now we will be challenging God"

CAIRO: When Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was officially declared Egypt's new president on Sunday, it marked the beginning of Egypt's first term under a democratically elected president. The news of Morsi's victory was received with joy by ecstatic crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square, some of (...)

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27 - 06 - 2012

Egypt watchdog worries over Election Commitee's lack of transparency

CAIRO: The announcement of Egypt's results of the presidential election's second round was delayed until Sunday afternoon, postponed from last week. While both presidential candidates Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and military strongman Ahmed Shafiq have declared their respective victories, (...)

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24 - 06 - 2012