Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Iraqi Women Work to Halt Bombers, but Paycheck Is Elusive JACK HEALY and YASIR GHAZI – The New York Times – Monday, 28 February, 2010 (originally published 27 Feb) BAQUBA, Iraq — The women charged with thwarting Iraq’s female suicide bombers spend their days in cramped metal sheds at police checkpoints and lobbies of government [...]
Maria Antonieta Gómez Álvarez / Chiapas correspondent WNN Features San Cristóbal de las Casas – Chiapas, Mexico — As maids, cooks, nannies and housekeepers they work behind closed doors, away from the public eye; unprotected by Mexican labor laws. Carmen Sánchez Gómez’s hand trembles as she struggles to form the letters her teacher slowly spells [...]
WNN Radio Roughed up and brought to jail after protesting during a small ‘non-segregated’ racially mixed sit-in in a Lynchburg, Virginia drugstore lunch counter on December 14, 1960, the Patterson Six , made up of four white and two African American students from three different colleges in the Lynchburg area, were not going to take [...]
New UN Women’s head lays out 100-day action plan UN News Centre – Friday, 25 February (originally published 24 Feb) The head of the new United Nations agency promoting women’s rights and full participation in global affairs laid out a 100-day action plan today, embracing a full spectrum of issues from supporting national partners to [...]
Women News Network – WNN Podcasts portal Is the world ready to embrace more powerful international institutions and the values needed to underpin a truly globalist agenda—the rule of law, human rights, and opportunity for all? Mark Malloch Brown was Minister of State for Africa, Asia, and the United Nations in the British government [...]
RAPHAEL MINDER – The New York Times – Thursday, 24 February, 2011 (originally published 23 Feb) Last year in Spain, 73 women died at home at the hands of their partners — roughly, one every five days. That was an increase over 2009, when 55 women were killed in similar circumstances. While there is a [...]
City of Misurata has fallen to protesters, but remains very tense, woman tells msnbc.com Miranda Leitsinger – MSNBC – Wednesday, 23 February, 2011 (originally published 22 Feb) For Iman, a 29-year-old American lying low in Libya, the last few days have been electric with tension. She huddled with female family members and neighbor women inside [...]
Why is Delhi India’s most dangerous city for women? Jason Burke – The Guardian News – Tuesday, 22 February, 2011 Delhi is known for many things. There is the chaotic traffic, the stunning Mughal-era monuments, the street food, the burgeoning cultural scene that sees a steady stream of European designers and artists heading east in [...]
Aryn Baker with Erik Stier / Sana’a – TIME magazine – Monday, 21 February, 2011 (originally published 16 Feb) Sometimes revolutionaries don’t look the part. Tawakul Karman, Yemen’s most active activist, favors long, loose-fitting gowns and coordinating headscarves. The 32-year-old mother of three looks, well, like a mom. And she acts like one too. Between [...]
Dorothy Height: ‘Queen’ Of Black, Women’s Empowerment Allision Keyes – NPR – National Public Radio – Friday, 18 February, 2011 (originally released 17 Feb) February is Black History Month and Tell Me More observes the month with a series of short vignettes. In this installment, NPR reporter Allison Keyes shares her black history hero. I’m [...]
