Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Deborah Mazon – WNN Features (WNN) VERACRUZ: International members of the media and advocates around the globe speak with alarm and concern about the death of Mexican journalist Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz and the dangers for women journalists throughout Mexico As the body of Mexico crime reporter Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz (Yolanda Ordaz) [...]
Marina Darmaros- Russia Beyond The Headlines- Friday, 29 2011 (originally published 27 July) Although more Russian women than men have university degrees, women on average make less money and hold less prestigious positions. Since the Soviet era, more Russian women than men have received university degrees, yet their earnings and position in the job market [...]
Anam Zehra – WNN Breaking (WNN) Islamabad: Bijli and Sania are two thirty-somethings from the Hijra community in Pakistan. Known as men who act, dress and appear to be women, I met them in the bustling center of an enclave of restaurants and diners in Islamabad draped in their dupattas and wearing heavy makeup. With [...]
David Woods – HR Magazine – Thursday, 28 July 2011 (originally published 27 July) The glass ceiling preventing women from climbing to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder will still be firmly in place at the end of this decade, according to a new report published today by Friends Life The report, ‘Working Women’, [...]
Gertrude Pswarayi – Women News Network – WNN MDG Stories Midlands Province, Zimbabwe: Sesedzai Rupuwu owns nothing except the tattered clothes that are neatly packed in her small, faded suitcase. She does not own a home or any household property. She is not allowed to. Rupuwu has an aged, wrinkled face that betrays her mere 48 [...]
