Mothers against Turbans | Hands off our children
From Lillian Shayetu to the Ghina Al-Bayat, 2021 began with stories of mothers struggling for custody of their children and challenging the injustice of the Jaafari courts. This video shows the issue of custody and mothers’ campaign to obtain it and face the advisory opinion upheld by the Jaafari courts.
Fixing Exchange Rates: Riad Salamah makes us pay twice.
Decades after the lira’s exchange rate was fixed, Riad ended the long-held policy, declaring that the fixing is over and that it will float the exchange rate according to the IMF’s well-known recipe. Floating requires painful steps that will be paid for by the same social groups that have already paid for fixing for years.