Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Tania Ghosh – WNN Features Zimbabwean women are denied access to land under African the government’s land reform programme, a new report has found. According to the report, women make up 51 per cent of the population and yet there has been little mention of women, if at all, during the two phases of the [...]
Pacific.Scoop – Tuesday, 31 August, 2010 The 11th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women held at SPC headquarters in Noumea in August 2010 called for stronger regional multi-sectoral processes and mechanisms to accelerate the achievement of equality between women and men in the region. Pacific Women Call For Stronger Regional Processes To Accelerate Equality The call [...]
Hillary Brenhouse – Time Magazine – Monday, 30 August, 2010 (originally published 12 Aug) Last month former Jerusalem city councilor Anat Hoffman, a brightly colored prayer shawl draped about her neck like a scarf, took a stand. Backed by a band of dancing, chanting, clapping women and the mound of stones that is Judaism’s most [...]
Commentary by Carol Daniel Kasbari, conflict mediator and founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Media Forum in Jerusalem JERUSALEM – Jerusalem made me who I am today. I’ve spent half of my life here, 18 years of searching and trying to belong, still without any success. Born in Nazareth to a Palestinian family, I rarely heard mention [...]
Elahe Amani with Lys Anzia –WNN Features “We are no different than one another.” TEHRAN: Outside the prison walls of ward 350, in the IRI – Islamic Republic of Iran’s Evin Prison, a group of brave demonstrators hold placards and pictures of their loved ones who are part of a hunger strike. The demonstrators [...]
