Ni Putes Ni Soumises Leads a Debate about Employment Opportunities for the Young Women of the Housing Projects

Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS -- Neither Whores Nor Submissives) led a debate on Friday, March 19, 2010, in Melun, France, following an Employment and Social Cohesion Forum.  The focus of the debate was on employment opportunities for the young women living in the ghettoized suburban housing projects surrounding France's major cities.

Ni Putes Ni Soumises is an international human rights organization that advocates on behalf of women's rights as universal human rights without compromise.  They condemn obscurantism and cultural relativism.  Ni Putes Ni Soumises was created as a ferocious response to the egregious violence between perpetrated against the women and girls of the quartiers (housing projects).  The cites or quartiers populaires in the banlieues (suburbs) of France are primarily comprised of marginalized Muslim immigrant communities.  The women from these communities rose up together to fight against gender violence and discrimination.  The femmes des quartiers continue to lead the fight and the movement.

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