SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Post - Women of Sudan - 'suppressed by any means’ – are protesting for equal rights in the post-Bashir era

26/4/2019: Washington Post – Women of Sudan – ‘suppressed by any means’ – are protesting for equal rights in the post-Bashir era, by Max Bearak

 Max Bearak’s feature piece covers Sudanese women protesting for equality.

 Mohamed Yusuf Al Mustafa, “the head of the Sudanese Professionals Association,” said he hopes a civilian government will promote women’s equality, and that him and other male protest leaders had discussed increasing women’s representation in Sudan’s parliament from 25 to 40%. However, Tahani Abbas, a lawyer for an organization called No to Women’s Oppression, said “we aim and aspire for 50%.”

 Bearak also spoke to protest leader Halima Ishaq, a refugee from Darfur, and tea-sellers union leader Awadia Koko, from the Nuba Mountains. Ishaq called for the end of laws that limit women, and Koko said “we want all the things of the past to go away.”  Both are also said to “represent a wider struggle for racial and ethnic equality in Sudan.”