Month: August 2012

International Women’s Day: Ending Violence Against Women

By Adam Makary Al Jazeera English conducted an interview with Hibaaq Osman, the chair of Karama, on March 8, International Women’s Day. In many countries women are active participants in the political process and have made progress toward some economic equality. However, women’s rights to life, to physical integrity, to health, to education, to freedom […]

From Cairo: What I Heard in Obama’s Words

by Hibaaq Osman, founder of Karama (‘Dignity’) and the Arab Women’s Fund Cairo, June 4th 2009 In the Middle East, people are used to good words not amounting to anything, so we have to be careful with our expectations. However, if there is one man who is going to change the relationship between the Muslim […]