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