Knowledge to End the Stigma

Intersections e.V. and Women Now for Development jointly produced a campaign called ‘Knowledge to End the Stigma’.

The campaign covered a wide range of topics, including:

• Depression after detention
• Whether the Legal Status Law is fair to women survivors
• Deprivation of child custody
• Stigma in general related to violence against women
• The story of a detainee who was raped
• Zahra and Safaa, two women who survived torture
• The story of Umm Muhammad, a woman who survived detention
• A survey of some of the difficulties faced by survivors after detention
• Fatima, a survivor of detention and another victim of stigma
• The story of the survivor Huda
• The marriage of a survivor to a foreign fighter to escape the stigma of society
• Stigma is social violence that haunts survivors in the workplace
• The survivor of detention pays the price for a crime she did not commit
• The stories of female detainees are difficult for journalists to confront
• Customs and traditions, not values and laws
• Stigmatizing women in the family is another form of violence that increases the burden on the survivor
• Digital violence against women survivors

Intersections produced the following for the campaign:

• A 6-part limited podcast series
• 2 campaign videos
• 9 written articles

External links (only in Arabic)

Podcast and campaign videos can be found here.
Articles can be found on Women Now Blog.