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 [...]
José Adán Silva – IPS news – Wednesday, 27 July, 2011 (originally published 25 July) MANAGUA, Jul 25, 2011 (IPS) – The rape of a young woman that has become a symbolic case in Nicaragua was ruled a “crime of passion” by the Supreme Court in a verdict that is suspected to have political overtones. [...]
Rasha Dewedar – WNN Opinion (WNN) Cairo: Women in Arab countries have become increasingly visible in demonstrations for democracy, especially in Egypt and Tunisia. However, they still face several hurdles, many of which were discussed at a recent training program in Stockholm for opinion makers from the Middle East and North Africa. As a journalist [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Zurich: Based in Switzerland and with coordinators in various countries, ‘PeaceWomen Across the Globe’ is an international network of women who have worked persistently and courageously for peace, security and justice in many regions of the world – even when their life is in danger and their work is overshadowed by setbacks. [...]
Michelle Norris with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton – NPR – National Public Radio – Tuesday, 26 July, 2011 (originally published 21 July) NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton talks with Michele Norris from the town of Dadaab on the Kenya-Somali border, which is the destination point for thousands of Somali refugees fleeing famine This week, the United Nations declared a [...]
Veronica Erupe, a single mother of four, was forced to leave her home when drought killed her livestock IRIN news (via The Guardian Development Network) – Monday, 25 July, 2011 (originally published 20 July) Veronica Erupe has lived in the village of Manyatta Chokaa, along the Isiolo-Samburu district border in northern Kenya, since 2008 when [...]
