Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN MDG Stories (WNN) KOSOVO: Police in Kosovo register over 1,000 officially-reported episodes of domestic violence every year and four out of five victims are women. However, official data is just the tip of the iceberg – not many women dare denounce their aggressors. Data from the Kosovo Police’s Human Rights Department, shows there were [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) UNITED NATIONS: Thousands of pregnant and lactating women in areas affected by a storm that hit the Philippines two weeks ago are getting help from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The government of the Philippines estimates that 92,000 families or 640,000 people have been affected by the storm which destroyed buildings [...]
A’laa Koddous Allah - Egyptian Gazette – Friday, 30 December 2011 (originally published 28 Dec) CAIRO – Nearly a year after the January 25 revolution, in which they played a prominent role, the future of Egyptian women still hangs in the balance. On January 25, when the revolution began, huge crowds protested against Hosni Mubarak. [...]
Jeffrey Gettleman – New York Times – Thursday, 29 December 2011 (originally published 27 Dec) MOGADISHU, Somalia — The girl’s voice dropped to a hush as she remembered the bright, sunny afternoon when she stepped out of her hut and saw her best friend buried in the sand, up to her neck. Her friend had [...]
WNN MDG Stories (WNN) LAO CHAI, Vietnam – IRIN: For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen’s ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the school year wore on, they dropped out to tend farm animals or hawk knick-knacks to the [...]
Loubna Flah – WNN Opinion (WNN) Opinion/Morocco World News: Rape is one the most abominable crimes committed against women. The perpetration of rape is not only a physical assault but mainly a lethal attack on human dignity. Its repercussions on women’s psyche are grave and the damage caused to the rape victim is almost irremediable. [...]
Elly Burhaini Faizal - Jakarta Post – Wednesday, 28 December 2011 (originally published 26 Dec) Gender equality in Indonesia has improved significantly over the last two decades, a World Bank report says. However, more improvement is needed in areas such as labor participation, access to formal financial institutions and development planning. The Jakarta Post’s Elly [...]
Adel Yahya – IRIN – Tuesday, 27 December 2011(originally published 22 Dec) DHAMAR, 22 December 2011 (IRIN) – Poverty and unemployment, exacerbated by the current political unrest, are driving up child marriages in Dhamar Governorate and elsewhere in Yemen, says Asmaa al-Masri, a sociologist at Dhamar University. Several hundred girls in Dhamar have been forced [...]
Alexis Erkert – Other Worlds Are Possible – Monday, 26 December 2011 (originally published 20 Dec) Iderle Brénus Gerbier has worked with many peasant organizations in support of women rights’ and food sovereignty. She is a member of the Haitian National Network for Food Security and Sovereignty (RENHASSA), campaign coordinator for Food Sovereignty in Haiti, [...]
Robyn Lieberman – Human Rights First – Friday, 23 December 2011 (originally published 22 Dec) Earlier this week during a speech at Georgetown University, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noted that “too few (women) are empowered to be instruments of peace and security.” Her remarks came just hours after President Obama signed an executive order [...]
