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