Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Vivianne Reding, European Commissioner For Justice – eGov monitor – Thursday, 31 March, 2011 (originally published 29 March) “Closing the gender gap at the top of the business world is a win-win situation. We have to take up this challenge now,” The EU Justice Commissioner makes it clear – companies have 12 months to become [...]
Daphne Bramham – The Vancouver Sun – Wednesday, 30 March, 2011 VANCOUVER — RCMP officers are trying to verify a list of 31 girls aged 12 to 17 who, over a 10-year period, are alleged to have been transported by their fathers and brothers between Canada and the United States for religious marriages to older [...]
Shanika SRIYANANDA – Sunday Observer Sri Lanka – Tuesday, 29 March, 2011 (originally published 27 March) She goes to work at the tea estate where her mother plucks tea leaves for a daily wage. Climbing the sloppy hilly estate is no mean task for a teenage girl, who starts her day before dawn. Savithri, the [...]
Ashley Fantz – CNN – Monday, 28 March, 2011 CNN photojournalist Khalil Abdallah recounted his experience to CNN.com writer Ashley Fantz for this story Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — CNN photojournalist Khalil Abdallah was having breakfast Saturday in a Tripoli hotel that houses foreign press when a woman burst into the restaurant, screaming that she had [...]
Charles Mafa – AfricaNews – Friday, 25 March, 2011 Lusaka, Zambia:While women are the most seriously affected by the deterioration of the environment, Rita Hamusokwe, 62, is showing that women can become effective agents of change for protection and stewardship of the earth if they are provided with knowledge and opportunity. Studies have shown that [...]
Rousbeh Legatis interviews MAVIC CABRERA-BALLEZA, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders – IPS – Thursday, 24 March, 2011 (originally published 21 March) UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – Eleven years ago, 192 countries – all the United Nations member states – agreed to step up the integration of women in international peacebuilding and security processes, [...]
Amnesty International – Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced ‘virginity tests’, inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month. After army officers violently cleared the square of protesters on 9 March, at least 18 [...]
Shahrzad Noorbaloochi – The Epoch Times – Tuesday, 22 March, 2011 (originally published 21 March) Time magazine has named her one of the hundred most influential individuals of 2010. The Guardian has named her one of the strongest women activists of our time. In Afghanistan’s Parliament, however, she is named a prostitute. But last week, [...]
A bit of good news, even as the death toll from Japan’s double-whammy disaster reaches more than 8,000 Gavin Blair – Global Post – Monday, 21 March, 2011 (originally published 20 March) MIYAGI, Japan – Even as the confirmed death toll rose to 8,133 on Sunday, there was a rare piece of good news as [...]
Nepal correspondent Nilima Raut with Shubhi Tandon – WNN Features (WNN) KATHMANDU: The centuries old practice of chhaupadi in Nepal can cause prolonged depression in girls and women. In extreme cases it can also cause death. Chhaupadi pratha, or ritual practice, places Nepali women and girls in a limbo of isolation. In history it is [...]
