May 11, 2012
Your move, Tina Brown. With a photo that was engineered to ignite a storm of online heat and noise, Time magazine’s coverdepicts a 26-year-old-motherbreastfeeding her three-year-old son, who stands on a chair. The story is meant to explore the growing trend of “attachment parenting“, preached primarily by Dr Bill Sears, co-author of the Baby Book, which encourages mothers [...]
Tags: Alyssa Milano, Attachment parenting, Breastfeed, Grumet, Richard Stengel, Time, Twitter, World Health Organization
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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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April 7, 2012
A legislative proposal in Virginia would have required all women seeking an abortion to get an invasive ultrasound [AP] Brooklyn, NY - There’s recently been an eruption in the United States over the question of birth control. Thecontroversy was initially prompted by the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which mandates that employers provide insurance that covers [...]
Tags: Abortion, Birth control, Brooklyn, Health, Hormone, Reproductive Health, United States, Virginia
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March 10, 2012
How I Left My Ultra-Orthodox, Ultra-Repressed Hasidic Community Deborah Feldman grew up in Brooklyn‘s Satmar Hasidic Jewish community, then secretly enrolled in college, left her husband and her family, and became a feminist blogger. March 4, 2012 | Today Deborah Feldman is a model of modern, independent young womanhood: the 25-year-old single mother of a 6-year-old [...]
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March 10, 2012
Photo Credit: U.S. Dept. of Commerce 3 Ways Sex-Based Discrimination Harms the Economy Challenges to women’s economic participation in the economy exist not only in countries around the world, but also in the United States. March 8, 2012 | The impact of women’s entrepreneurship on the global economy cannot be underestimated. In 2010, 104 million women in [...]
Tags: Empowerment, Goldman Sachs, Gross domestic product, Hillary Rodham Clinton, International Women's Day, McKinsey & Company, United States, United States Department of Commerce
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March 9, 2012
Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism 8 March 2012 In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee would not stay young and attractive forever [because] a spinster lady can, and very often [...]
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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 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 [...]
Tags: egypt, Hosni Mubarak, International Women's Day, Maputo Protocol, middle east, Tunis, Tunisia, womens rights
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November 29, 2011
Actor Robin Williams has described the meaning of the word divorce as ‘to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet’. Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP Divorce is no laughing matter As Robin Williams and John Cleese have recently demonstrated, ostentatious displays of resentment are a grim thing to behold reddit this Comments (137) Sarah Ditum guardian.co.uk, Tuesday [...]
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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 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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Reuters, Taliban, UNAMA, United Nations, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
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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 [...]
Tags: Haredi Judaism, Israel, Jerusalem, Micky Rosenfeld, Nir Barkat, Orthodox Judaism, Sex segregation, Tel Aviv
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November 7, 2011
Photo Credit: Khaled Moussa al-Omrani/IPS Post Revolutionary Egypt‘s First Woman Candidate Begins Her Presidential Campaign When Egypt holds presidential elections next year, Buthaina Kamel is set to become the first woman in the country’s modern history to run for the highest office. October 31, 2011 | When post-revolution Egypt holds presidential elections next year, [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Abstinence-only sex education, Barack Obama, Education, George W. Bush, Lila Rose, Martin Ssempa, Sex education, Sexually transmitted disease
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October 9, 2011
Barakzai says she will continue her fast until justice is done[Reuters] Unseated Afghan MP continues hunger-strike Semin Barekzai in critical condition as she fasts in protest against her disqualification over vote rigging claims. An unseated Afghan MP is in critical condition after entering the eighth day of a hunger-strike to protest against her expulsion [...]
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October 6, 2011
Over 1,000 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo [GALLO/GETTY] The price of oppressing your women A recent Newsweek article listed the best and worst places to be a woman, and explained the disadvantages of oppression. The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek’s recent cover story, [...]
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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 13, 2011
Tunisian women rally to preserve gender equality Published today 20:58 Reporters from the new daily “Le Maghreb” work on an article on August 12, in Tunis. Around 1,000 women’s rights supporters rallied in Tunis Saturday to the mark the anniversary of a key equal rights bill amid fears gender equality may suffer if political Islam [...]
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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 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan, Domestic violence, Human rights, People, Taliban, Violence and Abuse, Women
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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 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
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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 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
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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 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 27, 2011
2010 Sydney Peace Prize to Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Environmental Campaigner The distinguished Indian physicist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva is the recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize. The citation for Dr. Shiva’s selection reads, “For courageous leadership of movements for social justice – the empowerment of women in developing countries, advocacy [...]
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June 27, 2011
Ray McGovern is a very courageous former CIA person who has been campaigning for the truth to be told about the US system of imperial domination, delusion and militarism that has been happening for decades. He wrote the following article and it is here for you to read and evaluate. George Ikners ikners.com Spirits [...]
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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
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 7, 2011
Marching with the SlutWalkers The SlutWalk movement has divided feminists. Should women try to reclaim the word? And is undressing the best way to protest against rape? Share199 Comments (155) Tanya Gold The Guardian, Tuesday 7 June 2011 Article history Demonstrators march on the Glasgow Slutwalk. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images SlutWalking entered the UK [...]
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June 7, 2011
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Thousands of events are being held worldwide to mark the hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day. A handful of European countries first marked the day in 1911 following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. The United Nations has recognized March 8th as International Women’s Day since 1975. International Women’s Day [...]
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June 4, 2011
France‘s women put sexism on trial in wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn case Allegations of rape against ex-IMF chief fuel debate on macho culture among male establishment figures in country Share94 Angelique Chrisafis in Paris guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 19.13 BST Article history Female protesters hold up placards at a Paris demonstration, the left [...]
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June 3, 2011
Why are more women than men affected by the E coli outbreak? Around three-quarters of 1,800 E coli infections and at least 13 of the 19 who have died have been women. Why? Share16 Alok Jha, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 18.43 BST Article history Previous outbreaks of E coli food poisoning associated [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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