Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
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 [...]
