Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Michelle Nichols – Reuters news – Friday, 31 December, 2010 (originally published 29 Dec) KABUL, Dec 28 – In a dimly lit room at the back of an Afghan house, 21-year-old Zahara is crouched on a plank of wood weaving a large carpet on a loom that she was able to buy using a microfinance [...]
Joseph Mayton – WNN Opinion Commentary by WNN journalist and Bikya Masr news founder Joseph Mayton Cairo – All too often, it seems that it’s a man’s world, especially in the Middle East. And even in the world of media, men continue to push the agenda in the direction they see fit. But it doesn’t [...]
WNN Breaking December 30, 2010 Thirteen Egyptian human rights organizations expressed their distress today about the Egyptian government’s continuing dismissal of reports confirming the detention, torture and rape of hundreds of African hostages in Sinai by human trafficking gangs over the last few months. The gangs are demanding ransoms of thousands of dollars for their [...]
Peter Osalor – Vangard via UNDP Pressroom – Thursday, 30 December, 2010 (originally published 26 Dec) “When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier and better fed; their income, savings and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is also true of communities and, in the long [...]
Vesna Peric Zimonjic – IPS – Wednesday, 29 December, 2010 (originally published 27 Dec) SARAJEVO, Dec 27, 2010 (IPS) – Mila looks like the thousands of teenage girls who visit the newly-opened, glamorous shopping mall in downtown Sarajevo. She’s discreetly dressed in black trousers and jacket, with carefully manicured fingernails. The 19-year- old’s name means [...]
Swapna Majumdar- WeNews – Tuesday, 28 December, 2010 (originally published 27 Dec) In one of the worst areas of maternal care in the world, a health advocacy is teaching Indian women the three big factors in maternal deaths and how to assert political and community pressure to avoid them. RAJASTHAN, India (WOMENSENEWS)– Payments demanded by [...]
WNN Radio Ideas about the biological basis for differences between men and women circulate persistently, and often come to rest on the notion that male and female brains are just different. Well, not to blow any tiny female minds, but there may be nothing to that.” – Elanor McInerney Elanor McInerney interviews Cordelia Fine, author [...]
Kenya correspondent Tabitha Nderitu – WNN Features Nairobi, Kenya – When darkness descends in the ubiquitous slums and ‘informal settlements’ surrounding Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, women who visit and use communal toilets unwittingly become sitting ducks. The dangers are high, for women living in the slums, that they may become targets of youth gangs and individual [...]
Rob Crilly, Karachi – The Telegraph – Monday, 27 December, 2010 (originally published 26 Dec) Kainat Soomro should have stayed silent. After being battered and gang raped for four days her traditional, conservative village in rural Pakistan expected the 13-year-old girl to keep her story to herself. She refused. Since then her dark brown eyes [...]
Chen Yilian – The Epoch Times – Friday, 24 December, 2010 (originally published 21 Dec) The case of a couple from China’s Yunnan Province, recently published online, shows how promotions and bonuses for local Communist Party cadres are linked to their dogged pursuit of the quotas set by higher-ups—including quotas on the most intimate of [...]
