Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN Breaking Update January 27, 2012: The case for the Corrie family against the state of Israel is not expected to come to a final decision until the spring of 2012. “It has, at times, been hard to listen to testimony from the Israeli military. While soldiers on the scene have testified that they recognized [...]
IRIN - Friday, 29 October 2010 (originally published 27 Oct) Johannesburg, 27 October 2010 (IRIN) – The perception that women are only ever victims of conflict ignores the large numbers of female combatants, which can result in their exclusion from disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) report, State of the [...]
Adithya Alles – IPS – Thursday, 28 October, 2010 (originally published 25 Oct) COLOMBO, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – Having to take care of eight teenage children is not an easy task for 70-year-old Yamunadevi (not her real name). But these youngsters are her grandchildren, orphaned by Sri Lanka’s civil war of more than two [...]
Thu Giang – Viet Nam News – Wednesday, 27 October 2010 (originally published 25 Oct) It is a rainy and overcast day with gloomy autumn air covering Lap Dinh Village in the northern province of Vinh Phuc’s Phuc Yen District. Although close to the capital city, it is a contrasting image with paddy fields, hills [...]
WNN Breaking 26 October, 2010 Women from around the world will meet in Valencia, Spain to discuss “another way” of dealing with international power and leadership. On the 25th and 26th of October 2010, the Second International Conference of “Women in the world, leading the Millennium” will be held at the Valencia Conference Centre, in [...]
Big Think Editors – Big Think (Women and Power) – Tuesday, 26 October 2010 (originally published 25 Oct) While in many parts of the world today women enjoy greater power and opportunity than ever before, there are also places where women remain essentially powerless, lacking access to even basic education or human rights. In consultation [...]
Talia Carner – Worldpress.org – Monday, 25 October 2010 (originally published 24 Oct) In 2010, across the globe, women are still positioned as far inferior to men in every public sphere—political, religious, legal and economic. Image: Worldpress.org As the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) just met in Geneva [...]
Courtney Rose Brooks, Amina Umarova – Radio Free Europe – Friday, 22 October (originally published 21 Oct) Bride abductions are an endemic phenomenon in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In Chechnya alone, rights activists say as many as one in four marriages begin with the woman being kidnapped and forced to wed against her will. [...]
Marie Trigona – WNN Features (WNN) ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires city center, known as Plaza de Mayo, has been a site of protest for decades. It is here that the Mothers of Argentina’s ‘disappeared,’ begin their weekly march in the capital plaza every Thursday afternoon. Known as the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, they have passed [...]
Nima Elbagir – CNN – Thursday, 21 October, 2010 (originally published 19 Oct) Katana, Democratic Republic of Congo (CNN) — Quiet, remote and beautiful villages have become the scene for unspeakable horror as women are raped as a weapon in war. A United Nations report said that in the last year more than 15,000 women [...]
