I couldn’t resist!
Ayesha Imam is a women’s rights activist, a researcher, a writer, and trainer on gender issues.
Dr. Imam obtained her degree in Sociology in London, and her masters in the same subject at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria. She went on to obtain her phD in Social Anthropology at the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex.
Dr. Imam was the Executive Director of BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, a Nigeria-based non-profit organization working for women’s human rights and legal rights under customary, religious, and secular law in Africa and internationally. BAOBAB’s activities include research, publication, training, and awareness-raising campaigns on women’s human rights and state obligations in national and international law.
She also works actively as part of the core group of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), an international solidarity network.
Dr. Imam is the co-founder and former national coordinator of the first feminist organization in Nigeria, Women in Nigeria (WIN). WIN has carried out research and publication on women’s issues and has campaigned for women’s rights and democracy issues. She also initiated and directed Africa’s first Gender Institute, an annual program that trains young academics in gender analysis.
Over the past 20 years, she has been a researcher and lecturer in universities and research institutions in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Senegal. She has researched, lectured, and published widely on women’s human rights, African women’s rights and Muslim laws, gender analysis, gender in development, and democracy issues.
Amazing. And I’d never heard of her before!
OCCUPY MOSCOW Protesters gathered in Bolotnaya Square in Russia’s capital on Saturday. Organizers say between forty and 80,000 Russians demonstrated against recent parliamentary election results which observers, including former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, have dismissed as fraudulent. Protesters chanted “Putin is a Thief” and “Russia Without Putin” in the largest anti-goverment action since the fall of the Soviet Union. (Photo: Yuri Kadobnov / AFP-Getty via the New York Times; caption via the Times)
Is Vladimir “President For Life!” Putin in trouble?
Da.
Wow!
UN climate talks scramble to reach a deal
UN climate talks have been extended as environment ministers haggle over proposals for a new pact to roll back the threat from greenhouse gases.
Negotiations entered an unscheduled 13th day in South Africa on Saturday after all-night wrangling over the text of a possible agreement.
“The concern now is that time is extremely short,” said European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, spearheading the drive for a legally binding accord by 2015 covering the world’s major carbon polluters.
Earlier drafts at the meeting said negotiations should not begin until 2015, and should not take effect until 2020.
“We still have a lot of text that is not there. It is very difficult to discuss one piece without the other, because in the end the things are interconnected,” said Hedegaard.
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, the South African foreign minister, suspended talks late on Friday after a coalition of island
nations, developing states and the EU objected to a text that they said lacked ambition.
It was then agreed that talks would continue into Saturday.The EU has been rallying support for its plan to set a date of 2015 at the latest for a new climate deal that would impose binding cuts on the world’s biggest emitters of heat-trapping gases.
Any deal could then come into force up to five years later.
(Source: dynamicafrica)
Two lattes, a tea, and ten hours in front of the computer today, and this paper is STILL not done! Losing academic hope… Oh health infrastructure financing in Liberia - you are a bit too complex for me right now. Let’s just end this sooner rather than later.
