Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Aung Hla Tun – TrustLaw via Reuters news – Wednesday, 30 June, 2011 YANGON, June 29 (Reuters) – A possible tour of Myanmar by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi could cause riots, state media warned on Wednesday, implying she would be responsible for her own safety. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi is planning [...]
Martin Banks – TheParliament.com – Wednesday, 29 June, 2011 (originally published 28 June) EU commissioner Cecilia Malmström has admitted that “more needs to be done” to stamp out sexual exploitation of children. The official, who is responsible for home affairs, described the offence as “the most horrible crime imaginable”. The former MEP was speaking at [...]
Robert Carmichael in Phnom Penh – The Independent (UK) – Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 (originally published 27 June) Pen Sokchan was just 16 when in late 1978 she was ordered to marry a Khmer Rouge soldier, a man who was a stranger to her. More than 30 years on, she remembers how she tried to [...]
Donna Abu-Nasr – Bloomberg news – Monday, 27 June, 2011 (originally published 22 June) A group campaigning to end Saudi Arabia’s ban on driving by women called on Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (7270)’s Subaru cars unit to pull out of the kingdom until the prohibition is lifted. The announcement yesterday followed U.S. Secretary of State [...]
Meghan Casserly – Forbes – Friday, 24 June, 2011 (originally published 22 June) While women in the U.S. may have the benefits of free speech, voting and driving rights, American women lag behind our international sisters on many fronts. Pay parity. According to the World Economic Forum’s report on global gender equality in the workforce, [...]
WNN Radio In this interesting radio show on WINGS, host Marija Gimbutas combines archaeology, linguistics and folklore studies to describe the Neolithic cultures of Old Europe as stable, peaceful, sustainable, and female-centered. Joan Marler, a Gimbutas scholar, reviews the material artifacts at the 2nd World Congress of Matriarchal Studies. A study of ancient history allows [...]
WNN Breaking June 23, 2011, New York, NY – Left without the legal protection of their husbands after the ugly bloodletting of 1994, fifty women stood together in Rwanda, Africa to form AVEGA Agahozo, the Association of Widows of the Genocide, and 17 years later they are still helping one another and thousands of other [...]
Tara Bhattarai – Women News Network – WNN LAGANKHEL, NEPAL – It is midafternoon, and the outpatient department at Nepal’s only mental health facility, called the Mental Hospital, is abuzz with patients. Some wait for their turn to receive care, while others sit on the hospital lawn, crying, talking to themselves or just soaking in [...]
Jim Leher NEWSHOUR with Margaret Warner – PBS Radio – Thursday, 23 June, 2011 (originally released 20 June) Transcript JEFFREY BROWN: Next tonight, Afghanistan, where both the U.S. and Afghan governments are exploring new negotiations with the Taliban. Margaret Warner sat down with three Afghan women who have a significant amount at stake in the [...]
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury – IPS – Wednesday, 22 June, 2011 (original publication date 20 June) NEW YORK, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – Last Friday’s recommendation to give the incumbent U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon another five-year term drew the international community’s attention to another opaque, non- democratic process that is the hallmark of the 15-member [...]
