{"id":33517,"date":"2023-03-20T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=33517"},"modified":"2023-03-20T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:30:53","slug":"women-of-the-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/features\/women-of-the-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of the Past Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Words by Rume Otuguor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Happy Women&#8217;s History Month! This month encourages a lot of reflection on the strides women have made, in the UK and across the globe. For example, women were at the forefront of the innovation and roll-out of the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news-stories\/feature-story\/2021\/12\/sixteen-defining-moments-for-gender-equality-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid-19<\/a><\/span> vaccine. However, it would be remiss to assume that the work here is done, that the gender row is over and everyone can go home to their newly safe and equal homes. This past year alone has thrown up new disputes for women globally, revived those previously settled and intensified ones that have stood the test of time. Below, we take a look back at a few of the events that threatened the safety of our sisters in the past year, and appreciate their fighting spirit that can never be squandered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Roe v Wade<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Roe v Wade was a court case in 1973 that set a new lawful precedent, meaning that women in the United States of America were allowed the right to terminate (abort) a pregnancy up to 24 weeks after conception. However, with the re-emergence of powerful right wing groups and the conservative majority in the Supreme court, prompted by Trump, this decision was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/roe-v-wade-overturned-supreme-court-justices-b2116042.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">overturned<\/span><\/a> on the 24th June 2022. In the original draft of the policy, it stated: &#8220;it is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people&#8217;s elected representatives.&#8221; This left it up to the states themselves to decide the future of women&#8217;s reproductive rights. With that said, where are we now in 2023?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Currently, <a href=\"http:\/\/Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now Banned in the U.S. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">thirteen states<\/span><\/a> have banned abortion with varying restrictions and another twelve are attempting to do so. In the other parts of the country, abortion remains legal, and in some states new protections have been added, like in Michigan. In recent news, Wyoming have <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/18\/us\/wyoming-bans-abortion-pills\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">banned<\/span><\/a> any and every drug that could be used to attain an abortion and Texas are in talks to follow suit. The move towards the criminalisation of abortion in the US contrasts from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/03\/world\/abortion-laws-international.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">other<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/What Are the Abortion Laws in Countries Around the World? - The New York Times (nytimes.com)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">countries<\/span><\/a> such as Ireland, Mexico and India where abortion, to varying degrees, is becoming more accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Mahsa Amini<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Mahsa Amini was a young Iranian woman of 22 years old who died in hospital on September 16<sup>th<\/sup> after being arrested on the streets of Tehran for not wearing her hijab (headscarf), in line with the conservative Islamic codes of dress. Although Iranian security forces maintain that her death was caused by a heart attack, her family dispute this, stating that <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6216513\/mahsa-amini-iran-protests-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">she was abused<\/span><\/a> in the police car on the way to a detention centre. Eye-witness accounts attest to this alongside reports which revealed her cause of death to be a skull fracture, triggered by \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffheavy blows to the head&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Since her funeral on the 17<sup>th<\/sup>, there have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/article\/photos-iran-mahsa-amini-protest-uprising-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">widespread protests<\/span><\/a> in Iran&#8217;s cities where women have burned their hijabs and\/or cut their hair, both in public and on social media, to show their unwavering support for Amini and their anger towards Iran&#8217;s oppressive laws. Men also joined the protests, chanting: \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffwomen, life, freedom,&#8217; shoulder-to-shoulder with their sisters, wives and daughters. In Iran such dissent is a case of life or death; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/12\/20\/iran-protests-what-caused-them-who-is-generation-z-will-the-unrest-lead-to-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">as of January 2023<\/span><\/a>, 522 people have reportedly been killed and more than 20,000 detained, not accounting for the instances that go unreported. In spite of this, the demonstrations are ongoing. They have been described by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/iran-protests-flare-in-several-cities-amid-continuing-unrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">various outlets<\/span><\/a> as one of the biggest oppositions to Iran&#8217;s theocracy since the revolution in 1979 \u00d4\u00c7\u00f4 one that shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Child Q<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Last June, the contemptible case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/15\/child-q-four-met-police-officers-facing-investigation-over-strip-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Child Q<\/span><\/a> came to light. In December 2020, this 15-year-old black schoolgirl was stripped searched by female police officers under the suspicion that she was in possession of cannabis. Although the teachers who initially rooted through her belongings found nothing, the situation was unjustly escalated to the point where Child Q was forced to remove her sanitary towel, spread her buttocks and cough. Again, no drugs were found but this young black girl was left violated, bare and traumatised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The report conducted by the City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership (CHSCP) into the event, revealed that racism \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffwas likely to have been an influencing factor.&#8217; In the last year alone twenty-five children were stripped searched in Hackney-based schools of whom only two were white. More recently<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/surrey-school-attack-thomas-knyvett-college-video-b1058983.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last month<\/a><\/span>, a black schoolgirl in Surrey was attacked on school grounds by a gang of white girls, whilst surrounding adults watched and stoked the violence. This <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.police.uk\/news\/surrey\/news\/2023\/02\/Update-on-serious-racially-aggravated-assault-in-Ashford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00d4\u00c7\u00ffracially aggravated assault&#8217;<\/a> <\/span>is another instance in a string of violent acts perpetrated against young black girls in UK society. Communities have had enough and continue to take action in the form of lobbying and protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Women and Girls under Taliban Rule<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Taliban regained control in August 2021, women&#8217;s rights have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news-stories\/in-focus\/2022\/08\/in-focus-women-in-afghanistan-one-year-after-the-taliban-takeover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">systematically eroded<\/span><\/a>. \u252c\u00e1Currently women are barred from political participation, girls cannot go to school past sixth grade and work opportunities for women are severely restricted. At first, the Taliban allowed women to continue studying for university degrees albeit under stringent, gender-segregated conditions such as only being allowed to be taught by men and being denied access to specific STEM subjects. However, that is no longer the case as university education is now prohibited under the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/taliban-ban-girls-from-secondary-education-in-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">\u00d4\u00c7\u00ffindefinite ban&#8217;<\/span><\/a>, for reasons that are baseless. With no secondary school and no further education, the future of girls and women in Afghanistan is a precarious one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, small classes take place in the home and some schools still run in provinces, funded by charities \u00d4\u00c7\u00f4 a risky act of defiance to access what should be a fundamental right. More recently, a group of young Afghan women congregated outside<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/06\/asia\/afghanistan-university-women-protest-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Kabul University<\/span><\/a><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/span>to protest the ban, by sitting on the ground and reading their books whilst their male counterparts prepared for the upcoming academic year. It remains to be seen whether this is indeed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/south-asia\/taliban-afghan-women-university-school-ban-b2258639.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">\u00d4\u00c7\u00ffpostponement&#8217;<\/span><\/a> as the Taliban proclaim, but until then, the opposition to these draconian measures continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words by Rume Otuguor Happy Women&#8217;s History Month! 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