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