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Event Coverage: #Celebrating Dissent - A Conversation on Women's Dissent

" Heretics, infidels, renegades - Welcome to Amsterdam! " - Mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema. Starting at bright and early at 1...
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As I am sure many of you have heard of, and if you have not, this week Saudia Arabia has relaxed its male guardianship law, which now allows...
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The Six Month Mark: Anxiety, Activism and Aspirations

As I write this I am sat on a train to London, for my first speaking event of 2020. There is an air of excitement entangled with anxiety. I...

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Saff: Saff is an international journalism masters student and human rights activist, who advocates for the right to leave a religion freely, and campaigns against repressive apostasy and blasphemy laws. On her blog, The Amber Journals, she discusses politics, religion and women’s rights issues focusing on abuses in the Middle East and South Asia. She is the co-founder and host of The Sinning Skeptics podcast, on which young ex-Muslims and Muslims talk about their experiences with doubting Islam and leaving their religion.

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

The Six Month Mark: Anxiety, Activism and Aspirations

March 19, 2020 | Saff | activism, apostasy, aspirations, atheism, axniety, blog, blogger, council of exmulsims of britain, exmuslim, faith to faithless, human rights, religion, shunning, the amber journals, the sinning skeptics | No comments

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Taboo: Pakistan's Mental Health Problem

February 27, 2020 | Saff | blog, censorship, health care, mental health, mental illness, pakistan, the amber journals | No comments

Saturday, February 1, 2020

World Hijab Day, No Hijab Day: Collating Women's Experiences with the Hijab

February 01, 2020 | Saff | exmuslim, free from hijab, hijab, iran, masih alinejad, nazma khan, no hijab day, saudi arabia, the amber journals, white wednesdays, world hijab day, yamine mohammed | No comments

Monday, December 30, 2019

Apostasy Is Not A Crime: The 12 Countries Where Freedom of Thought Carries a Death Sentence

December 30, 2019 | Saff | afghanistan, apostasy, asia bibi, atheism, blasphemy, blog, blogger, farkhunada malikzada, human rights, iran, islam, Junaid Hafeez, pakistan, religion, sharia law, the amber journals, twitter | No comments

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Junaid Hafeez's Sentencing Highlights the Most Pressing Freedom of Speech Issue of the 21st Century

December 26, 2019 | Saff | blasphemy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, human rights abuse, islam, Junaid Hafeez, liberalism, pakistan, secularism, the amber journals, twitter | No comments

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Western Feminists Need to Pay Attention to Masih Alinejad and the Iranian Women's Rights Movement

November 13, 2019 | Saff | blog, blogger, hijab, iran, islam, masih alinejad, my camera my weapon, my stealthy freedom, nasrin sotoudeh, saba kordafshari, the amber journals, white wednesdays, women's rights | No comments

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Podcasts, Publicity and Perspective: How My Life Changed in A Year

October 02, 2019 | Saff | apostasy, atheism, blasphemy, blog, blogger, celebrating dissent, exmuslim, human rights, islam, journalism, maryam namazie, pakistan, politics, religion, secularism, the amber journals, twitter, women's rights | No comments

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