Fatima Qureshi

dear liberation • 1st July 2026

Reaping what was never sown: Lynas and the imperialist legacy of plunder and extraction

This piece was written in collaboration with Gegar Amerika, a progressive youth-led movement which aims to build a united multicultural and transnational front in Malaysia against Zionism and U.S. imperialism; condemning U.S. interventionist aggression in the Global Majority, centring the liberation for Palestine and with liberation struggles across the Majority World.At the recent G7 Summit in France, the world’s hegemonic imperialist powers convened to decide the fate of the Majority World. Th...

dear liberation • 18th June 2026

Capitalism's way of killing the game to benefit the billionaire class is called sportswashing

I couldn’t bring myself to publish as often as I would have liked this past month. Story drafts, interview questions, interminable lists of essay topics. I couldn’t bring myself to write because I am perpetually untangling my swollen knots of feeling both defeated and outraged. Witnessing the trenches of resistance being exchanged for the salons of neoliberalism, the retreats from organic struggle to digital cosplay, the total surrender to capitalist ways of being in this accelerated attention e...

Equality Institute • 28th May 2026

Home as Liberation - Equality Institute

A multitude of global struggles for land back, and the access to justice for victims of gender-based violence, are intertwined with the deeply embedded, systemic problem of what home should represent. The people running the neoliberal capitalist systems we exist within decide who belongs and who doesn’t on this home/land by drawing ethnonationalist, colonial and settler-colonial borders.

Inkstick Media • 20th March 2024

The Crisis in Sudan and the Unseen Resilience of Mutual Aid

This refusal of international humanitarian aid comes at a critical time. Some 25 million people in Sudan urgently need humanitarian assistance. Internet blackouts and increasing food and fuel prices have worsened the crisis.

While it may seem bleak and beyond hope, a global, self-organized, grassroots movement is meeting the survival needs of civilians on all fronts. Sudanese volunteers in the diaspora are collectively organizing mutual aid efforts by fundraising from the diaspora and leading on ground provisions by distributing food, shelter, and life-saving psychosocial services.

Organisational Statement • 4th January 2022

Statement of Solidarity and Call to Action in Support the People of Sudan

Our Statement of Solidarity is also available in Arabic: بيان مشترك للتضامن والدعوة للعمل ودعم السودانيين

The Musawah movement, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa and fellow human rights activists (NAGAAD Network – Somali and Somaliland and Islamic Relief Development Agency – South Sudan) are concerned about the escalating violence and instability in Sudan.

We are deeply concerned about the violence being targeted at civilians protesting against authoritarian rule. We are

10th December 2022

DISABILITY JUSTICE AND AUTONOMY: Intersections With SRHR and Gender in Ending All Forms of Violence and Discrimination

People with disabilities (PWD) are often
excluded from conversations in the
reproductive rights movement. While
there are notable cross-movement
efforts happening in changing the
discourse to be more inclusive of
diverse constituencies, in reality, most
fall short to consider that practising
intersectionality as feminists is more than
just enumerating identities.

Asia Times • 13th August 2021

Muslim feminists in India, Sri Lanka push for divorce rights

Laws on divorce vary in different countries, intimately bound with women’s rights and access to justice. In many countries where Muslim communities are the minority, there is gaping inequality between men and women in their access to divorce and release from marriage.

“These discriminatory divorce laws don’t come from the scripture, because we have three chapters [in the Koran] where talaq procedures are elaborately laid down,” said Noorjehan Safia, founding member of a Muslim women’s organizat

Mongabay Environmental News • 5th April 2021

In Malaysia, the fate of a peat forest hinges on a powerful state official

Selangor, on the western coast of peninsular Malaysia is the country’s most populous and prosperous state as well as one of its most highly urbanized. Amid this sprawl, just 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of central Kuala Lumpur, lies the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR), a rich peatland forest home to more than 2,000 Indigenous people as well as rare species like the meranti bunga hardwood tree, the Malayan sun bear and Langat red fighting fish.

Originally gazetted as a customary fore

Asia Times • 8th October 2020

Caste and the cult of masculinity in India

On September 14, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was brutally gang-raped by four men in Hathras village in India’s largest state, Utter Pradesh (UP). She clung to life for two weeks, suffering from multiple gashes on her tongue and fractures all over her body, but finally died in a hospital in Delhi.

To make matters worse, the local police refused to cooperate with the victim’s family when they asked to see her face one last time. Instead, the police hurriedly cremated her body in the dead of night i

Asia Times • 28th July 2020

Beijing's iron fist puts an end to HK's autonomy

The past few weeks in Hong Kong have been dreadful, to say the least, especially after the controversial national-security law came into full force on July 1.

The once-semi-autonomous territory came to grips with a new wave of arrests under the new law, drafted by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), the top state organ in China. Writers and activists scrubbed their presence online – with some fleeing Hong Kong in fear of state-sponsored persecution – and a cloister

Asia Times • 27th April 2020

Malaysia stays silent on Covid-19 threat to Rohingya

On April 16, a boatload of 200 Rohingya refugees arriving on the Malaysian coast were instantly turned away by the Malaysian Air Force, refusing to let them off the boats and escorting them back to the sea, with some food in the name of “humanitarian aid.”

Malaysia has been under a strict lockdown since March 18 in an effort to slow the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19. The Ministry of Home Affairs, which oversees detentions and prisons, over the past few weeks has won plaudits for enfo

RAPPLER • 15th January 2019

Facing persecution at home, Ahmadiyya Muslims find refuge in Manila

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.

The Philippines is home to hundreds of refugees who identify as Ahmadiyya Muslims, a sect of Islam that's constantly under attack in Muslim-majority countries. Less than 30 of them struggle to make a living in Metro Manila.

MANILA, Philippines– For decades, followers of the Ahmadiyya faith, a minority sect of Islam, have fallen victim to laws that target them as non-believers in Pakistan.

Asia Times • 28th July 2020

Beijing's iron fist puts an end to HK's autonomy

The past few weeks in Hong Kong have been dreadful, to say the least, especially after the controversial national-security law came into full force on July 1.

The once-semi-autonomous territory came to grips with a new wave of arrests under the new law, drafted by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), the top state organ in China. Writers and activists scrubbed their presence online – with some fleeing Hong Kong in fear of state-sponsored persecution – and a cloister

The China Project • 3rd May 2019

Case of Ethiopian engineer detained in China is raised by PM Abiy Ahmed in meeting with Xi – The China Project

Abera’s prolonged detention has caught the country by storm with protests and online campaigns urging the Ethiopian government to help grant her clemency. Abera’s family in particular have been mounting pressure on state officials claiming that she never travelled anywhere before this trip to China.

“No one can prove that Nazrawit ever, ever left Ethiopia her entire life,” Abby Abera, Nazrawit’s sister, said in a phone interview. “She planned this trip to China to just research on building mate

RAPPLER • 16th February 2019

WATCH: Pinoys invent app to help kids with autism

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Named Emerald District, the app aims to bridge health practitioners and people with autism

MANILA, Philippines – A group of 5 Filipinos from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) has developed an application that aims to transform manual mental health record-keeping into an online-friendly platform.

The Emerald District app aims to bridge health practitioners and people with autism thro

RAPPLER • 15th January 2019

Facing persecution at home, Ahmadiyya Muslims find refuge in Manila

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.

The Philippines is home to hundreds of refugees who identify as Ahmadiyya Muslims, a sect of Islam that's constantly under attack in Muslim-majority countries. Less than 30 of them struggle to make a living in Metro Manila.

MANILA, Philippines– For decades, followers of the Ahmadiyya faith, a minority sect of Islam, have fallen victim to laws that target them as non-believers in Pakistan.

Media Diversified • 18th September 2018

Nationalism and racial classification in Hong Kong

Fatima Qureshi speaks to Ansah Malik, a civil rights activist about how she, a fifth-generation Hong Konger resists the city’s nihilistic attitude towards racism

Twenty-one years after the British colonial administration handed Hong Kong over to a one-country-two-systems policy under China, minority groups continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised.

As a semi-autonomous territory, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) adopts an independent rule of law that claims to guarantee ba

21st September 2017

Racism and the NFL: why is Colin Kaepernick still unemployed? – gal-dem

In 2016, Colin Kaepernick—the former San Francisco 49er quarterback player that spearheaded the team to the Super Bowl in 2013—attracted the attention of global news media. Kaepernick “willingly immersed himself into controversy” by sitting or taking a knee during the pre-game national anthem, in solidarity with, and in memory of, the victims of police brutality in the US.

Unsurprisingly, in some arenas, the response to Kaepernick’s act of protest was a barrage of backlash and cringe-worthy cen