Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Eva Fernández Ortiz – WNN Features (WNN) Oslo, NORWAY: As Norway’s 32-year-old right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik looked out at a Norwegian public courtroom in Oslo, Tuesday, November 14, 2011, he made a formal statement before the court in an attempt to place himself at the head of a “resistance movement” against immigrants and multiculturalism [...]
Sabine Clappaert – WNN Features (WNN) EUROPE: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a topic that has been rarely associated with Western Europe, yet due to the arrival of immigrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, female circumcision has become a specific Western concern. It is estimated that in the European Union alone, [...]
Aida Dervishi – WNN Features (WNN) TIRANA, ALBANIA: As poverty remains a serious plague throughout South Eastern Europe and the Balkans, especially Albania, rural women who have migrated to urban areas are one of the most vulnerable groups facing hardship and abuse. This is especially true in regions where advocacy programs for women who [...]
Norway correspondent Synne Hall Arnøy – WNN Features (WNN) OSLO, NORWAY: This year for 2010 marks Norway as the highest ranked nation on the recent United Nation’s global Human Development Index (HDI), but the country is facing a human rights challenge. The November report shows that an average Norwegian can expect to live 81 years, [...]
LYS ANZIA - WNN Features “The strategy used in women’s prisons now is one of humiliation rather than rehabilitation,” said Jane Evelyn Atwood in her 2007 Amnesty International video documentary, “Too Much Time.” For nine years, Atwood photographed and documented the conditions for women in 40 women’s prisons worldwide including the US, Europe and Eastern [...]
WNN editorial release – WNN Features Keynote speech by Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights At the Council of Europe Conference on “Support Services for Women Victims of Violence” Strasbourg, 6 December 2007 A week ago I visited a refuge in Cork, Ireland, for women who needed shelter against violence at home. [...]
Lys Anzia – WNN Features As award winning foreign correspondent, Dr. Ruth Gruber, reaches her 96th year this year, her new and 19th book is out. The book, “WITNESS – One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story,” crosses decades as it speaks of humanity, crisis and rescue. Just released by [...]
Lys Anzia – WNN Features – Malalai Joya at home in Farah, photo image Marie Dorigny – A group of women humanitarians is asking for help from the world on the one month anniversary of the parliamentary expulsion of Afghan parliamentarian, Malalai Joya. The Italian women’s organization, CISDA – Coordinamento Italiano Sostegno Donne Afghane, is [...]
Drea Knufken – WNN Features -Albanian family flees post war 1996 – photo Svetlana Bahchevanova- “Put simply, how women fare in a society is an indicator of the direction that society is taking.” – Zainab Salbi. What happens after a war is over? The glamour and glory, if there was ever any, is gone. The [...]
Lys Anzia – WNN Features – Northern Ireland’s Betty Williams, 1976 Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize – Did you know that women make up the majority of the population in Northern Ireland? That’s right. Fifty-one percent to be exact. But even with this edge on the male population in Northern Ireland, women are underrepresented. [...]
