April 25, 2012
Since the revolution, Egyptian women have much stronger and more collective responses to sexual harrassment carried out against them by men in the streets and male authority figures [GALLO/GETTY] Cairo, Egypt - This story was supposed to be about how wonderful it can be when artists, activists and intellectuals from across the Arab world and the [...]
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April 20, 2012
Women, Sex and S&M: Mainstream Media Totally Wrong About Female Desire — Again The real place women are getting spanked is in state legislatures across the country. April 16, 2012 | Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Spanking [...]
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March 8, 2012
Slutwalk protests spread around the world last year in response to comments from a Canadian police chief. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Europe Perhaps as a somewhat humorous moment a woman was asked on a radio show if she knew what today was. She was told it was an international day related to gender. We [...]
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March 7, 2012
Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, was called a ‘slut’ by shock jock Rush Limbaugh. (Alex Wong/GETTY IMAGES) We Need a Women’s Rights Reawakening by Heather Mallick Thursday is International Women’s Day. Women in Canada and the U.S. have not been in this much danger for a generation. Women have few public defenders [...]
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January 7, 2012
A man holds the Portuguese Playboy Magazine on July 10 in Lisbon. Penthouse magazine owner FriendFinder Networks announced a 210-million-dollar bid Thursday for Playboy Enterprises, publisher of the iconic men’s magazine. Photo Credit: AFP/File – Patricia de Melo Moreira Why Do Men’s Magazines Sound Like Rapists? Why does the language of young men’s magazines sound [...]
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December 31, 2011
An Afghan girl who was tortured for months after refusing prostitution lies on a hospital bed in Kabul Dec. 31. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani) By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) — A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband’s family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials [...]
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December 7, 2011
Following a rejection of his appeal, Katsav becomes the highest-ranking Israeli official to serve prison time [AFP] Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav has reported to prison to begin a seven-year sentence for rape and other sexual offences. Before travelling to Maasiyahu prison on Wednesday, Katsav, who was president from 2000 to 2007, once again claimed innocence, [...]
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December 2, 2011
Nadya Khalife The Arab Spring and the revolutionary spirit that came with it were viewed by women’s rights activists as an opportunity to make progress on much-needed rights and freedoms for women in the Middle East and North Africa. Nadya Khalife, women’s rights Middle East and North Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch Back in [...]
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November 29, 2011
Daniel Ortega‘s close relationship with Cardinal Miguel Obando has resulted in stringent laws against abortion [EPA] Dominique Strauss-Kahn would not have lost his job if he was President of Nicaragua. He would have been re-elected. At least, that is what happened to the former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. Accusations that he sexually abused his stepdaughter [...]
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November 29, 2011
Dan Abrams‘ “Man Down” Women Are Better At Almost Everything by CHARLES R. LARSON You have to hand it to Dan Abrams. He’s in his mid-forties, never married, and either hoping that his book will get him hitched or frightened to death that, if it does, he’ll never live up to his wife’s expectations. The [...]
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November 27, 2011
Nawal El Saadawi (b. 1931) – name also written: Nawal al-Sa’dawi Egyptian novelist, essayist and physician, whose feminist works have widened the boundaries of the Arab novel. Nawal El Saadawi’s central theme is the oppression of women and womens’ desire for self-expression. She first gained fame with her nonfictional writing. Her books have been banned [...]
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November 25, 2011
Photo Credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Egyptians Confront Police Violence, Forced Virginity Tests, and Torture to Save Their Revolution 33 Dead, many injured as Egypt‘s interim military rulers attack demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir square November 22, [...]
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November 23, 2011
Women walk on a muddy road after rain in Kabul Nov. 9, 2011. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail) By Christine Kearney KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — Afghan authorities are failing to enforce the law to protect women from murder, beating, rape and other violence and being sold into marriage and prostitution, the United Nations said on Wednesday. UN Assistance Mission [...]
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November 16, 2011
Ultra-orthodox groups have been blamed for a rising trend which has seen posters featuring women being defaced. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters Jerusalem mayor battles ultra-orthodox groups over women-free billboards Female models erased from advertisements across city after religious lobby brands the images as offensive reddit this Phoebe Greenwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 15 November 2011 19.16 GMT [...]
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October 26, 2011
In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yemeni activist, Tawakkul Karman. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution calling on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to immediately step down after 33 years in power. All five permanent members of the Security Council back the [...]
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October 25, 2011
Photo Credit: Nebedaay/Flickr Did Egypt‘s Women Win the Revolution Only to Lose Out? In the eight months since the revolution, Egypt’s women have learned that the fight for their rights is only beginning. October 18, 2011 | Photo Credit: Nebedaay/Flickr In the immediate aftermath of this spring’s revolution, something new and unfamiliar happened in Egypt: [...]
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October 25, 2011
Live Action and Lila Rose want to replace Planned Parenthood‘s sex-ed funding with false information and religious fundamentalist preaching. October 16, 2011 | It is being reported that Live Action’s Lila Rose is planning the next step in her ongoing effort to defund Planned Parenthood: take away its sex-ed money. Rose is lamenting the fact that [...]
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August 14, 2011
Abused Lebanese women also victims of legal system Published yesterday (updated) 13/08/2011 23:47 A Lebanese woman carries a placard in Arabic reading “a man is successful in dialogue” during a KAFA rally in December [AFP/Joseph Eid, File] By Khaled Soubeih BEIRUT (AFP) — It was only a few months after their wedding in Lebanon [...]
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August 6, 2011
Child rape is one of the fastest growing crimes in Jamaica [Photo: Thomas Devenishek] When a jury acquitted a Jamaican-born American pastor of carnal abuse charges in June, outraged islanders were forced to recognise that cultural norms seem to be promoting the sexual abuse of young girls. Just over two years ago, in June 2009, [...]
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July 26, 2011
Although Welikada is technically considered a ‘correctional’ facility, there are serious doubts about whether or not any rehabilitation occurs inside before the women are released [EPA] Monthly “visiting hours” at the female ward of Sri Lanka‘s notorious Welikada Prison are as traumatic for the inmates as they are for their family and friends. A tiny [...]
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July 16, 2011
Earlier this year a house subcommittee held a hearing focused on sexual assault and violence against women in the military and at the academies [Getty] Sexual assault within the ranks of the military is not a new problem. It is a systemic problem that has necessitated that the military conduct its own annual reporting on the [...]
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July 14, 2011
A survey of 20 female students and teachers in Afghanistan found that 18 faced daily harassments on the street [EPA] My mother entered the house and pushed the door closed with anger. After getting a cup of green tea, she sat in front of the television as her children watched her with concern and confusion. [...]
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July 11, 2011
Some 90 per cent of Afghan women face some form of domestic violence – many are forced into early marriage, kidnapped, or raped with no hope of justice [GALLO/GETTY] In December 2010, in a small house located in Sarbande Chakush village in the Juzjan province of Afghanistan, a 14-year-old girl named Aziza was abruptly awakened by [...]
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July 11, 2011
15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage? Why Conservatives Are Criminalizing Pregnant Women The creeping criminalization of pregnant women is a new front in the culture wars over abortion. July 4, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via [...]
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 1, 2011
Preface: The following Guardian article reeks of the fascist drivel that has driven millions to despair. It also shows the totally dishonest levels to which those who consider themselves to be intellectuals will sink to support the totally bourgeois ideologies we are expected to live by. There are far more factors at play than some overtly [...]
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June 29, 2011
An Egyptian protester injured during clashes with security forces evacuated from Tahrir square in the worst violence since Mubarak’s fall. Photograph: Amel Pain/EPA The fiercest street fighting seen in central Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak has left more than 1,000 people injured, as popular dissatisfaction with the military-led transitional government boiled over into [...]
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June 29, 2011
Daughters of the brothel Naseema was born into and lives in one of India‘s most infamous brothels but is now working to free trafficked women. Witness Last Modified: 29 Jun 2011 10:40 Filmmaker Gautam Singh explains how he came to make Daughters of the brothel. India’s handwritten magazines have long fascinated me. But while researching the [...]
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June 28, 2011
Politics can be amusing and still be serious. On some occasions you can get some insight into the nature of the beast from the beastly parts- like the politicians and the media who make up the travelling zoo that comes in the package you vote for. Here in Australia we have a completely unelected Prime Minister [...]
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June 27, 2011
Google reveals US government leads way in private data requests Google has received a record number of requests from 26 developed countries to reveal private information about internet users Share99 reddit this Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.16 BST Article history Google has released figures showing the number of requests for private [...]
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June 27, 2011
Google reveals US government leads way in private data requests Google has received a record number of requests from 26 developed countries to reveal private information about internet users Share99 reddit this Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.16 BST Article history Google has released figures showing the number of requests for private information [...]
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June 24, 2011
Muslim Tory minister says Pakistan‘s treatment of women fails Islam Lady Warsi says women are being denied rights granted 1,400 years ago in Qur’an Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative party, who says Pakistan fails Islam in denying women’s rights. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Pakistan is failing to live up to one of [...]
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June 22, 2011
La Nation Building du Jour by Philip Giraldi, June 16, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Critics of Washington politics have often noted that there is a huge disconnect between the thinking on Capitol Hill and what is clear to most Americans who live in the rest of the country. [...]
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June 22, 2011
Madeleine Kulab and her boat. (GuerrillaRadio Blog) By Vittorio Arrigoni (This article was originally published at Vittorio Arrigoni’s blog Guerrilla Radio. Translated by Daniela Loffreda.) Her eyes are as deep as unexplored oceans and her movements are done with the grace of waterfowl, as when a marine creature submerges itself below the surface of the [...]
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June 10, 2011
Humanitarian crisis as world’s largest refugee camp declared full Tens of thousands in Dadaab camp in Kenya face starvation after fleeing violence in Somalia, medical charity warns Share8 David Smith in Johannesburg guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 June 2011 18.14 BST Article history Somali refugees wait in line for food at the refugee camp in Dadaab, [...]
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June 9, 2011
“There is a Women’s Spring Beginning”: Playwright Eve Ensler and Congolese Activist Christine Schuler Deschryver on Gender Violence in Congo Share583 A newly published study in the American Journal of Public Health estimates more than two million women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2006. But women’s advocates say there is [...]
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