After the Revolution || Quest for Honor
After The Revolution (Después del Zapatismo)
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In 1994 in Chiapas, Mexico, an uprising started where the women had made sure their own demands of justice and equality were a distinctive part in the struggle against the oppressor. The Zapatista National Liberation Army, formed mostly of indigenous men and women, started a war of self-defence for their identity, their land and a place in Mexican society. The women rebels also wanted justice within their own culture.
At present, the Zapatistas live in their own self-governed communities and are building their own educational, medical and legal system, where women are supposed to have an equal footing and hold posts of power. Problem is, part of the Zapatistas’ aim was to recover old traditions, and some of those traditions justify abuse of women. The women are trying to hang onto the traditions they like and efface the ones that harm them. The movement and its women leaders opened the doors for their emancipation. Even so, they still fight the hardest battles at home, in their kitchens and their bedrooms.
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Quest for Honor
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A former teacher and tireless activist works with local lawmen, Kurdish government agencies and her colleagues to investigate and eradicate honor killings in the tribal regions of Kurdistan.
A call to the Women’s Media Center in Slemani, reveals that a woman’s body has been found in a field oustside Rania, a mountain town near the Turkish border. Runak Faraj, editor of Rewan (Dawn), the center’s newspaper, and her colleague Kalthum Murad join local Rania Police Chief Abdullah at the crime scene. Chief Abdullah’s cell phone shows a devastating image of a young woman clad in blue jeans, grabbing her hair in the agony of death. The woman is Nesrin, a young widow. Her mother is dead, and her father lives abroad. Her in-laws took Nesrin’s children when her husband died, and she lived from house to house after that.
“Why doesn’t the government fund shelters for homeless women who have no safe place to stay, rather than spend resources investigating their inevitable murders?” Kalthum asks Rania’s mayor.
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