The Environment Is a Feminist Issue The Climate Is Changing, Will I Face a Natural Disaster? Artist Haya Halaw and her family immigrated years ago from Syria to Jordan, where she stayed until she had to immigrate again to Germany. These forced migrations were accompanied by climate and environmental changes. Today, Halaw sits at her workdesk in Hamburg and reflects on these changes and their gender-related impact. By Haya Halaw Iraq’s Environmental Struggle against Foreign Rapacity and Local Greed Ahwaris in Iraq have been through a series of tragedies over the decades. “We have lived a long history of displacement, oppression and racism. We have always opposed authoritarian governments and any form of authoritarianism. My family was active in opposition to Saddam Hussain. My uncle was killed resisting him in Hor Al-Huwaiza,” explains Ahwari activist and environmental and human rights defender Mustafa Hashim who is part of the “Ahwari Voice-The Ahwari Human Rights network”, one of several self-organized groups in the Marsh lands, the Ahwar (singular Hor), that spread through Southern Iraq and Iran. “But the current Iraqi government refuses to recognize this and give us our rights as a family of a martyr. I have two aunts that were killed due to mine explosions in Hor al-Huwaiza from the remnants of the Iran-Iraq war. Many others here have sustained severe injuries in the aftermath of the war. It is great suffering and sorrow that does not end.”1 By Ansar Jasim Why We Need Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Land Justice in Morocco? In Morocco, collective land is an umbrella term to designate different types of lands throughout the Kingdom that are collectively owned by ethnic and tribal communities across the country. One type of such lands, and the most common, are soulali lands. These lands are managed by the historical communities who are entitled to use them, and they have never been privately owned until the last few decades, when the state started institutionalizing privatization processes, which had already started during the French colonization1 through the Dahir (decree) of April 27, 1919. It is this legal text that began the weakening of the prerogatives of these communities over their land. By Jihad Yagoubi
The Climate Is Changing, Will I Face a Natural Disaster? Artist Haya Halaw and her family immigrated years ago from Syria to Jordan, where she stayed until she had to immigrate again to Germany. These forced migrations were accompanied by climate and environmental changes. Today, Halaw sits at her workdesk in Hamburg and reflects on these changes and their gender-related impact. By Haya Halaw
Iraq’s Environmental Struggle against Foreign Rapacity and Local Greed Ahwaris in Iraq have been through a series of tragedies over the decades. “We have lived a long history of displacement, oppression and racism. We have always opposed authoritarian governments and any form of authoritarianism. My family was active in opposition to Saddam Hussain. My uncle was killed resisting him in Hor Al-Huwaiza,” explains Ahwari activist and environmental and human rights defender Mustafa Hashim who is part of the “Ahwari Voice-The Ahwari Human Rights network”, one of several self-organized groups in the Marsh lands, the Ahwar (singular Hor), that spread through Southern Iraq and Iran. “But the current Iraqi government refuses to recognize this and give us our rights as a family of a martyr. I have two aunts that were killed due to mine explosions in Hor al-Huwaiza from the remnants of the Iran-Iraq war. Many others here have sustained severe injuries in the aftermath of the war. It is great suffering and sorrow that does not end.”1 By Ansar Jasim
Why We Need Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Land Justice in Morocco? In Morocco, collective land is an umbrella term to designate different types of lands throughout the Kingdom that are collectively owned by ethnic and tribal communities across the country. One type of such lands, and the most common, are soulali lands. These lands are managed by the historical communities who are entitled to use them, and they have never been privately owned until the last few decades, when the state started institutionalizing privatization processes, which had already started during the French colonization1 through the Dahir (decree) of April 27, 1919. It is this legal text that began the weakening of the prerogatives of these communities over their land. By Jihad Yagoubi
