Language as human communication tool plays a substantial as the tool exertion, redemption, and rights fulfillment of the oppressed society. The use of language becomes crucial as a means of discourse ...on social issues and identity. The protest for women’s rights fulfillment is one of the social issues that gets a lot of attention, both from the demonstration and the discourse used in the movement. Physical abuse led to death which happened to Mahsa Amini in Iran evoked the public's anger which then led to massive protests all around the world. This article aimed to identify the form of solidarity shown in the use of language in the discourse of the liberation of women’s rights specifically in Mahsa Amini’s death case. This research used descriptive-qualitative methodology which used interpretive case study in the protests of Mahsa Amini’s case. The data were in the form of phrases and slogans in English written on the posters used in the protests around the world. The data was collected by searching #MahsaAmini on the search bar of the Instagram application. The data used was only those taken directly from the event of protests. The data then were analyzed by identifying and sorting the speech acts used. Next, the lexical units containing any form of solidarity for the liberation of women’s rights were identified. The result showed that there was a form of solidarity built among the participants of the protests through the identified speech acts.
...they managed to identify the building and threw tear gas in the parking area where we were hiding. Many of the wounded people are too scared to go to hospital because some senior managers and ...surgeons are appointed by the regime and they hand over the names of protestors”, he said. “Security personnel wearing plain clothes and face masks had prevented doctors and nurses from treating injured protestors who were then arrested in the emergency rooms of Kowsar and Be'saat hospitals and taken to an unknown location”, said Mansournia, whose brother Borhan Mansournia, a veterinarian, became well known in Iran after he was shot dead during a protest in 2019 in Kermanshah.
Offline: Mahsa Amini—never forget Horton, Richard
The Lancet (British edition),
09/2023, Letnik:
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Mahsa Amini died in Kasra Hospital, Iran, after being arrested, tortured, and beaten for allegedly breaking the Iranian Government's strict mandatory hijab law. In interviews with women prisoners, ...published in White Torture (2022), Narges Mohammadi, first arrested in 1998, documented how the regime uses a particularly cruel method to control those who challenge its power—incarceration without trial, solitary confinement, extreme sensory deprivation, and sexual abuse. The regime serves no purpose other than to ensure its own survival. Since President Trump's withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—the Iran nuclear deal—power has swung back towards hardline clerics.
The murder of Mahsa Jina Amini has galvanized a movement for women's rights and freedom in Iran. Translating political movements and their slogans is often a daunting task, as identities, histories, ...and struggles are not easily translatable cross-culturally. This movement, too, has provoked frenzied sentimentalism and "feel good" social media activism from celebrities and politicians. From celebrities cutting their hair on social media, to politicians and right-wing activists and leaders denouncing the Islamic regime, the focus of the protest seems to have been lost in the west. The discourse in the west is lacking a critical analysis of the politics of veiling and unveiling in western countries. This commentary points out that the movement spearheaded by Iranian women and schoolgirls is against state coercion. It further argues that reframing the discourse to focus on the protest as being against state control, instead of hijab, will be a more useful way forward for feminist movement globally.
Over the past several years, I have been interacting with an increasing number of Iranian scientists, including those currently living in Iran as well as others who are being educated elsewhere or ...have independent positions outside of that country. In all circumstances, the resulting collaborations have extended my own knowledge and allowed me to contribute to papers on a variety of topics that are outside my specific area of expertise, including xenophagy, nanoparticles, cardiac disease and cancer. As the editor-in-chief of this journal, one of my goals is to be as inclusive as possible, encouraging scientists from around the world to engage in autophagy-related research, and to heighten awareness of this work with an aim toward a more complete understanding of the basic process, and to aid in progress toward the modulation of autophagy for medical applications. For this reason, I have been extremely dismayed by the actions of the current government in Iran, which have led to attacks on scientists and students, and in particular to policies that encourage the repression of women. Although we still have not achieved full equality for women in the United States of America, I think we are slowly moving in a positive direction. It is my sincere hope that the lives and aspirations of women around the world can continue to improve so that this half of our population can fully contribute to the scientific enterprise.
Summary Background National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective ...medical care (ie, amenable mortality). Previous analyses of mortality amenable to health care only focused on high-income countries and faced several methodological challenges. In the present analysis, we use the highly standardised cause of death and risk factor estimates generated through the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) to improve and expand the quantification of personal health-care access and quality for 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2015. Methods We mapped the most widely used list of causes amenable to personal health care developed by Nolte and McKee to 32 GBD causes. We accounted for variations in cause of death certification and misclassifications through the extensive data standardisation processes and redistribution algorithms developed for GBD. To isolate the effects of personal health-care access and quality, we risk-standardised cause-specific mortality rates for each geography-year by removing the joint effects of local environmental and behavioural risks, and adding back the global levels of risk exposure as estimated for GBD 2015. We employed principal component analysis to create a single, interpretable summary measure–the Healthcare Quality and Access (HAQ) Index–on a scale of 0 to 100. The HAQ Index showed strong convergence validity as compared with other health-system indicators, including health expenditure per capita (r=0·88), an index of 11 universal health coverage interventions ( r =0·83), and human resources for health per 1000 ( r =0·77). We used free disposal hull analysis with bootstrapping to produce a frontier based on the relationship between the HAQ Index and the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a measure of overall development consisting of income per capita, average years of education, and total fertility rates. This frontier allowed us to better quantify the maximum levels of personal health-care access and quality achieved across the development spectrum, and pinpoint geographies where gaps between observed and potential levels have narrowed or widened over time. Findings Between 1990 and 2015, nearly all countries and territories saw their HAQ Index values improve; nonetheless, the difference between the highest and lowest observed HAQ Index was larger in 2015 than in 1990, ranging from 28·6 to 94·6. Of 195 geographies, 167 had statistically significant increases in HAQ Index levels since 1990, with South Korea, Turkey, Peru, China, and the Maldives recording among the largest gains by 2015. Performance on the HAQ Index and individual causes showed distinct patterns by region and level of development, yet substantial heterogeneities emerged for several causes, including cancers in highest-SDI countries; chronic kidney disease, diabetes, diarrhoeal diseases, and lower respiratory infections among middle-SDI countries; and measles and tetanus among lowest-SDI countries. While the global HAQ Index average rose from 40·7 (95% uncertainty interval, 39·0–42·8) in 1990 to 53·7 (52·2–55·4) in 2015, far less progress occurred in narrowing the gap between observed HAQ Index values and maximum levels achieved; at the global level, the difference between the observed and frontier HAQ Index only decreased from 21·2 in 1990 to 20·1 in 2015. If every country and territory had achieved the highest observed HAQ Index by their corresponding level of SDI, the global average would have been 73·8 in 2015. Several countries, particularly in eastern and western sub-Saharan Africa, reached HAQ Index values similar to or beyond their development levels, whereas others, namely in southern sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and south Asia, lagged behind what geographies of similar development attained between 1990 and 2015. Interpretation This novel extension of the GBD Study shows the untapped potential for personal health-care access and quality improvement across the development spectrum. Amid substantive advances in personal health care at the national level, heterogeneous patterns for individual causes in given countries or territories suggest that few places have consistently achieved optimal health-care access and quality across health-system functions and therapeutic areas. This is especially evident in middle-SDI countries, many of which have recently undergone or are currently experiencing epidemiological transitions. The HAQ Index, if paired with other measures of health-system characteristics such as intervention coverage, could provide a robust avenue for tracking progress on universal health coverage and identifying local priorities for strengthening personal health-care quality and access throughout the world. Funding Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The rapid spread of public protests—amplified by videos of women removing and burning headscarves, cutting their hair, and defying Iranian police—led government authorities to shut down the internet. ...Perversely, medical and public health communities continue to underestimate the harmful effects of social media on human health and wellbeing. Protests spread to 15 cities across Iran overnight over the death of the young woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the country's morality police, state media reported today.In the fifth night of street rallies, police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse crowds of up to 1,000 people, the official IRNA news agency said.
After the death of Masha Amini at the hands of the Iranian Morality Police for not wearing the hijab, in accordance with what they considered appropriate in September 2022, a social media campaign ...called “Hair for Freedom” was sparked on different platforms, with videos of women cutting their hair in protest over Iranian women’s rights and Amini’s death. This paper analyzes whether this digital feminist movement enacted an interreligious dialogue (IRD). Based on content analysis and topic modeling of the publications retrieved from three major platforms, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, the results indicate that this was mainly a Western movement focused on women’s bodies as a political symbol in authoritarian Islamic regimes and has not achieved an IRD since most social media posts reproduced the hashtag #HairForFredom without opening a religious discussion. As observed in other digital movements, conclusions indicate that social media activism does not offer an opportunity to engage in dialogues to enlighten the public sphere. On the contrary, the focus appears to provide users with the opportunity to enhance their reputation by engaging in popular social media campaigns that promote social change.
The Iranian diaspora in Washington DC commemorated the first anniversary of the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in mid- September with two protests. While exiting a Tehran metro station, Amini was ...arrested by Iran's infamous "morality police" for wearing her hijab improperly. Her arrest and death while in police custody became the fuel for the massive nationwide "Women, Life, Freedom" movement. On Sept 14, a noontime demonstration was held outside the office of the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran (located inside a downtown office building). While office workers entered and exited the building, one protester read the names of those killed by the Iranian government for protesting, while others picketed the building's entrance carryings signs and posters with the victims' portraits, while chanting "Women, Life, Freedom."
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