Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
James H. Burnett III – Boston Globe – Friday, 24 May 2013 (originally published 20 May) ARLINGTON — Ask the most ardent sports fans to name some of the earliest female stars and they are likely to toss out names like Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. All stars, no doubt, but [...]
WNN Justice (WNN/HRW) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, SOUTH ASIA: The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said on Monday, May 21, 2013. Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact. Statistics from Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry [...]
Avik Das – Times of India – Thursday, 23 May 2013 (originally published 21 May) For a group of women in Khagra, Berhampur, the next month will bring with it the promise of a changing fortune. They have their business plan – to manufacture low-cost biodegradable sanitary napkins – ready. Their target consumers are in [...]
WNN Earth Watch (WNN/UN) United Nations, New York, N.Y., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect natural resources. “We live in an [...]
Jocelyne Cesari – WNN Religion & Belief (WNN/CGN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: While scholarly work has debunked the idea of incompatibility of Islam with Western values, it has not really changed this dominant perception pervading political discourse and policy making. This notion of incompatibility between Islam and the West has actually intensified in the [...]
