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Sudanese women’s struggle for gender equality
6-8-2019
In its issue of August 5, Al Diyar daily published an article by Agence France Presse featuring Sudanese women’s struggle for equality. AFP interviewed a number of Sudanese women activists who while lamenting the many restrictions enforced on them in the name of religion, stressed that women led the protests which toppled former president Omar Hassan Bashir on April 11, 2019 after 30 years in power. Sudanese woman lawyer and human rights activist, Amani Uthman, who was detained for 7 hours in refrigerated solitary confinement for demonstrating against the regime, said Sudanese women shall continue to fight to achieve gender equality. She said her arrest was in blatant violation of all laws and moral standards because of her advocacy for her unrepresented compatriots. Uthman warned that women will not wait to be granted their rights, we will fight for them. Sudanese women demand 40% of seats in the next parliament, she said, adding, that the coalition Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), which leads the protests, has included the demand in the agreement signed with the ruling military council. For her part, Amira Tijani, English professor at Ahfad University for Girls in Om Durman, said the movement is an opportunity for women to be heard. Likewise, Salwa Mohamad, 21, said she was present daily at the April rallies in front of the army headquarters in the Sudanese capital in April to make women’s voices heard. Women in Sudan cannot go out alone or study abroad or dress as they like, she complained. (Al Diyar, August 5, 2019)
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