Gita Sahgal

Fundamentalism, Racism, Women's rights, Human rights defender, Amnesty International
Herausgegeben:Horst, Kristen Nehemiah

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gita Sahgal, born 1956/1957 (age 54 55) in Bombay, India, is a writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, a director of prize-winning documentary films, and a women's rights and human rights activist. She has been a co-founder and active member of women's organizations. She has also been head of Amnesty International's Gender Unit, and has opposed the oppression of women in particular by religious fundamentalists. In February 2010 she was suspended by Amnesty as head of its Gender Unit after she was quoted by The Sunday Times in an article about Amnesty, criticizing Amnesty for its high-profile associations with Moazzam Begg, the director of a campaign group called Cageprisoners, whom she referred to as "Britain's most famous supporter of the Taliban". Amnesty responded that she was not suspended "for raising these issues internally." Among those who spoke up in her support was Salman Rushdie, who said Amnesty and Begg "deserve our contempt". Begg said Sahgal's claims of his jihadi connections and support for terrorism were "ridiculous", and that he didn't consider anyone a terrorist who had not been convicted of terrorism.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Dign Press
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138117674
• ISBN-10: 6138117670
• Artikelnr.: 34487736