Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
News24 – Friday, 29 April, 2011 (originally published 28 April) Tokyo – A female employee at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan is reported to have been overexposed to radiation while authorities have detected high levels of radiation in fish and spinach produced near the plant, a news report said on Thursday. [...]
Jen Phillips – Mother Jones magazine – Thursday, 28 April, 2011 (originally published 27 April) Despite what the protesters at your local Planned Parenthood may say, abortion is not unsafe. In fact, you’re about 20 times more likely to die from childbirth-related ailments than you are from getting an abortion.* In California, a disturbing new [...]
Naila Anwar Warraich – DAWN.com provinces – Wednesday, 27 April, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Narrating her life and struggle, Ghulam Sughra, a recipient of International Women of Courage Award, on Tuesday told students that education was a must for women to bring in better changes in their own and others’ lives. “Education makes all the difference for [...]
Asma Alsharif – Reuters news – Tuesday, 26 April, 2011 (Reuters: JEDDA) – Sara Abbar knew what would happen when she and her 28-year-old daughter tried to register to vote in Saudi Arabia’s municipal elections. The vote, set for September, ruled out in advance any participation by the country’s 9 million women. “We will keep [...]
LIANE HANSEN, host – NPR National Public Radio – Monday, 25 April, 2011 About a month after Egypt’s protests, hundreds of Egyptian women returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to rally for equal rights and an end to rampant sexual harassment. They were attacked by men shouting at them to go home where they belong, and [...]
Tania Ghosh – WNN Breaking Researchers have criticised the attitude of health service providers in Ecuador, saying their judgmental approach is compromising adolescent girls’ rights to sexual healthcare. In 2007 the Ecuadorian government introduced a National Plan for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. However, a study carried out by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden, suggests [...]
Dr. Cesar Chelala – Gulf Times (Qatar) – Friday, 22 April, 2011 Recent World Bank statistics are sobering. Food prices shot up 36% last year, thus adding 44mn people to the rank of the impoverished. Just a further 10% more would push 10mn more into those that are poor and hungry. Recently in Washington, talking [...]
Claire Ngozo – IPS – Thursday, 21 April, 2011 (originally published 20 April) LILONGWE, Apr 20, 2011 (IPS) – For 12 years now, the women around Tsangano in Malawi’s southern district of Ntcheu have put together their tomato harvest, selling some 20 tons at the outdoor markets that abound in Lilongwe, the capital. But they [...]
Men Kimseng – VOA News | Khmer – Wednesday, 20 April, 2011 (originally published 18 April) Washington, D.C.: Vital Voices, an organization for women leadership, held an annual awards ceremony in Washington this month, gathering many women from around the world who work toward greater rights. The ceremony, held at the Kennedy Center in downtown [...]
Commentary by Rita Chemaly, Lebanese social-political researcher and author Beirut – On 20 March, the day before the Mother’s Day in Lebanon, 30,000 people of all ages took the streets of Beirut chanting slogans and demanding the abolition of the country’s confessional system. This was the latest in a series of demonstrations that began on [...]
