Calls for support for the organization of cycles, meetings and conferences offered by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation November 30, 16:00 pm. 02/17/1975 classroom
cinema as a tool of social protest: violence against women motivated by religious beliefs and political power in Afghanistan Tuesday, 30 November
Classroom Time 02/17/1975
16h Speakers:
Alberto Elena, a professor at the Universidad Carlos III
Farshad Zahedi, a professor at the University Carlos III
Rosa San Segundo professor at the Universidad Carlos III
Alfredo López, professor at the Universidad Carlos III
Religions are not women friendly. In the history of the three major monotheistic religions were born on the shores of the Mediterranean (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) there are plenty of misogynistic elements that make women second element in the service of man.
believe that cinema is a good tool for social criticism of the situation of these women in non-democratic countries where the voice of women is continually silenced at all levels of society. Specifically, this project, we refer to the situation of Muslim women.
For many experts, the term 'Muslim woman' is just an abstraction because their condition is not dictated only by religion but also by the political structure of the country they belong, of the influence that religion has political power. For this particular project we intend to focus our intention on Afghan women.
The organization Human Rights Watch said late 2009 that "the situation of Afghan women are among the most vulnerable in the world, violence against women is rampant and the Afghan government does not protect against crimes such as rape or murder. "
The fall of the Taliban government after the American occupation has not led to the eradication of violence against women and their release, most are still leaving in fear of the street, covering the burka to prevent possible attacks.
Afghan women have to survive the lack of security, attacks against civilians by U.S. troops and NATO and also have to deal with violence in their daily lives: to abuse sex, rape, abduction, forced marriages, domestic violence. Neither the Karzai government and its police offer no protection.
Many find no alternative to his unhappy life to end. The numbers of suicides are so high that within a year come to register in a city like Herat a hundred cases of women admitted to the hospital's burn unit for attempted suicide .
From RAWA (Revolutionary Association
of the Women of Afghanistan - the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan) are reported almost daily reality of Afghan women. Perhaps all is not lost as there are those who fight for the rights of women and want to end this situation, women who challenge the reality that surrounds them out into the street with his face to the sun and going to school even in secret. Education is perhaps the high point to end the situation oppression of women throughout the world, and cinema is one tool among many, that can educate.
