SOCI 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Arab Human Development Report, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, Femicide
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The uprisings and mass protests that occupied tahrir square in central cairo between january 25 and february 15, 2011 were haunted by the figure of sexual harassment or the sexualized assault and terrorization of women activists. Gender sensitive coverage of the revolution by egyptian and. Western media outlets focused on two forms of representation. One was that the square represented a utopian space that forged a new gendered social contract and hosted a new model for how democracy should be. Fox news said the entire egyptian people were not ready for modernity and democracy. In 2000 the un security council passed resolution 1325 on. In may 2003, unscr 1325 was cited in the preamble to unscr 1483, authorizing the us invasion of iraq which weaponized the gender/security resolution as a tool to justify military occupation on behalf of liberating women.
