Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Iceland Review Online – Tuesday, 29 November 2011 (originally published 26 Nov) Just Fearless, an international multi-media organization focused on women’s empowerment announced the “Reykjavík Women Empowering Women Symposium” on December 6 at the Hilton Hotel Nordica this week. It is an event designed to empower and inspire women to succeed in both their personal [...]
Manar Ammar – WNN Breaking (WNN) CAIRO, Egypt: On Egypt’s first day of elections, women’s participation was visibly large in the country’s first post-revolution elections to choose “the revolution parliament.” The high female turn-out comes despite the low numbers of women who are running for the Parliament. Women candidates themselves running for individual seats account [...]
Lakshmi Eassey – WNN Reviews (WNN) ZIMBABWE, Africa: Three-year-old Runyararo screams every time she sees a man. She was found abandoned at a bus station. When the Girl Child Network Worldwide (GCNW) took her for an examination there was evidence of sexual assault, and attempted penetration, a clear sign of rape though she has not [...]
Jo Chandler – Sydney Morning Herald – Monday, 28 November 2011 (originally published 24 Nov) WOMEN danced, wept and embraced outside the Papua New Guinea Parliament yesterday as years of campaigning culminated in a watershed vote to allow 22 reserved seats for women in the almost exclusively male chamber, where just one of 109 seats [...]
Mail & Guardian online – Friday, 25 November, 2011 United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has called for zero tolerance for violence against women, adding that the pervasiveness of violence against women poses a serious barrier to gender equality. According to the UN, 70% of women experience violence in their lifetime, and one in five [...]
