Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Lucy Nicholson – PhotoBlog – Tuesday, 31 January 2012 (originally published 25 Jan) Lilly Earp changes the diaper on her 5-week-old baby sister Emily with the confidence another child would have cradling a doll. She’s only 8, but she already shows the street smarts of an older child as she helps her mother. It [...]
Anya Cordell – WNN Opinion (WNN/CGN) Chicago, ILLINIOS, U.S.: Martin Luther King, Jr., the renowned American civil rights activist, said, “Men hate each other because they fear each other, they fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they are often separated from each other.” Americans commemorated [...]
Robert Lee – Korea Herald – Monday, 30 January 2012 (originally published 26 Jan) Gender Equality Minister Kim Kum-lae says she is striving to make Korea a global symbol of women’s empowerment. The country has been accepted to chair United Nations Women, the U.N.’s entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, according to [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA: Young people tweeting from mobile devices across the region are the current driving forces that are creating a rise in the growth of Twitter in Africa, says How Africa Tweets, which has just launched its findings from Nairobi, Kenya. In the first ever attempt to comprehensively map the use of [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Islamabad, PAKISTAN: As the lower legislative body, the National Assembly in Pakistan, passed a new bill unanimously on January 19 to protect women’s rights in the region, women are beginning to gain more confidence that ‘real sustainable rights’ for women may be around the corner. Although the new bill must now be [...]
WNN – Global Jobs list Current Job listings provided by AWID – Association for Women’s Rights in Development (dates shown at top of job listing reflects date the job was posted, not the closing date for the position) Jobs Around the World Program Officer, Adolescent Girls 12 February 2012 United Nations Foundation. Washington, DC, [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN)ROME, Italy: Despite efforts to combat violence against women in Italy, the levels of such violence remain high and there is an urgent need to address the underlying structural causes of inequality and discrimination, said the UN independent expert and Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo. At the end of a [...]
Mona Alami – IPS – Friday, 27 January 2011 (originally published 25 Jan) BEIRUT, Jan 25, 2012 (IPS) – Odette Klysinska, a Catholic French native, sits in her living room in an affluent neighbourhood in Beirut, clutching her will in one hand, shocked to learn that it is no longer legally valid in the country [...]
Derek Bekebrede – The Harvard Crimson – Thursday, 26 January 2012 (originally published 23 Jan) The United Nations estimates that there are 200 million “missing” women in the world today, and by “missing,” the UN means they are dead. With the advent of abortion on demand, the modern world has encouraged parents around the world [...]
Hetal Shah – WNN Opinion (WNN) Opinion Bhuj, India: There are two Indias, and Dalit women have learned to survive in both these worlds. Take a look at two related but opposing headlines in The Hindu last month. January 5, 2012: Dalit woman sarpanch emerges as poster girl for gender issues January 11, 2012: Dalit [...]
